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WEAK!

Profile of WEAK!, headquartered in Taiwan. No project submitted by WEAK! has been published on Architecture News Plus (ANP).

: [L-R] Hsieh Ying-chun, Roan Ching-yueh and Marco Casagrande – © WEAK!

Principals

Hsieh Ying-chun
Marco Casagrande
Roan Ching-yueh

Brief description

The WEAK! describe themselves as flexible and lazy and as industrial insects. "We are learning our construction methods from insects." To design is not enough. Design should not replace reality. Real Reality is values that cannot be speculated, values that are total. This is interesting for us. As architects we are more like design shamans building a connection between the modern man and nature. We take our commands from the jungle. Man must be weak to be part of nature.

In large scale, if we learn to understand the connection what the hundreds of millions of hands that are now migrating from the rural China to the modern cities might bring along them, we might be able to ruin the industrial city. We might be able to make the city to be part of nature.

Let everything that has been planned come true. Let them believe. And let them have a laugh at their passions. Because what they call passion actually is not some emotional energy but just a friction between their souls and the outside world. And most important: let them believe in themselves. Let them be helpless like children, because: weakness is a great thing and strength is nothing.