It's hard to look at the city's development from the window of the block | arh. Marius Călin @ People in space | VIDEO INTERVIEW
" RN: Let's talk about what you're working on now, what you're building now.
MC: X Architecture is a ten year old firm, we started it with a few people, we have now reached 40 architects, and our involvement is on large buildings and complexes, fundamentally mixed use, mixed function, some of them completed, like One Cotroceni Park, phases 1 and 2, on Progresului, One Mircea Eliade, One Herăstrău Park, what is called the trilogy on Caramfil, Park, Plaza, One Herăstrău Tower and a number of other works that would take too long now to mention.
RN: And which are large works and basically, in terms of design and management work, hard to keep on hand.
MC: I think we benefit from both the developers and the teams working on the project from a support, input and openness in communication that makes this kind of work possible. I mean, as I said at the beginning, there's a certain sense of what it means to invest. To invest is not just to sponsor, to invest is to contribute, a cognitive, conscious, open decision, to contribute to the transformation of a space, perhaps of a society, but fundamentally, because these things are often looked at, to the transformation of people. Because no matter how you take it, and let me point to my example, which you asked me about. Yes, I studied architecture in Romania. Because I "ran away" from Romania I continued my studies at Pratt Institute and then I thought what I would like to do in my master's degree in the 90s, it was the time when the master's degree was starting to approach such an intensity..."
