The German archi­tec­ture mag­a­zine, BauNetz, has added a short, but smart inter­view with Tim Edler from Realities:United. Realities:United is by far the leader in media sur­faces inte­grated to archi­tec­ture, and the short inter­view artic­u­lates how Edler sees their work in rela­tion to archi­tec­ture and what projects are mean­ing­ful to him. He states that in some cases: “Media facades are also a symp­tom of weak architecture.” Talk­ing about the inte­gra­tion of media in Euro­pean archi­tec­ture, he argues that: “Communication media in archi­tec­ture is often moti­vated by an image of modernity” and that it stems from our read­ing of Asian cities or from science-​fiction films. The video also high­lights a col­lab­o­ra­tion with Nieto Sobe­jano Arqui­tec­tos from Spain, as fea­tured in the Re-​Sampling Orna­ment exhi­bi­tion. One of the office’s excit­ing new projects, the ECB build­ing in Frank­furt, aims “To shift tech­ni­cal sys­tems to an aes­thetic role” and pro­poses the total con­trol of the light­ing system at night for a mas­sively orches­trated 3-dimensional sculpted light show.

The video is pre­sented as part of BauNetz TV’s Crys­tal Talk series, which includes other rec­og­nized archi­tects and design­ers such as Del­u­gan Meissl. Other BauNetz videos can be found at their You Tube sub­scrip­tion page.