“I’m tired of being an architect—there’s too much bureaucracy now” —What do you think is the main challenge of the profession today? —The cost of living in cities has skyrocketed. Lisbon is one of the most expensive cities to rent in. Foreigners are coming in and buying homes, pushing the locals out to the outskirts. Architecture today lacks a plan; the city evolves as it can. That’s the real problem. Cities change every four years, and there’s no long-term strategy. —Is everything improvised then? —Yes. We work like in a game of chess, moving without knowing what the next step will be. Architecture isn’t aligned with 21st-century thinking. We are in the middle of a crisis of philosophical systems—Christianity, communism, other ideologies. These systems don’t work anymore because they’re too rigid, and today’s world is fragmented and constantly shifting. One day Trump or Putin says something, or China backs a specific project, and the situation changes. That makes it difficult to find stable solutions. —In 2008, you said it was hard to stay in the profession due to lack of work. Is it a better moment now? —Architecture has never been easy. Today, things are even more difficult: bureaucracy, regulations, constraints. We work with 20 cm margins, and then interior designers take over. We operate within a web of professionals and constraints. It's always complicated.
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