VB：大概在8年前 ， 我们在纽约发表演说 ， 当时你表达了非常有趣的想法 ， 那么现在我想回顾一下当时的一些概念 ， 了解一下你今天所见到的评论 。

JMH：对此我也非常好奇（笑） 。

Vladimir Belogolovsky:For so many architects it is the very first project that leads to a particular discovery or a line of inquiry that is characteristic of the entire career that follows. Often it is a house for an architect’s mother or one’s own house. Is there a manifesto project that played such role in your case?

Jürgen Mayer H.:I would name the first key project the Stadthaus Ostfildern a townhall in Ostfildern outside of Stuttgart in Southern Germany which was our first competition-winning project in 1998. When built in 2003 it won the Emerging Architect Prize by the Mies van der Rohe Award. It contained a lot of the basic ingredients that have become a foundation for many of our subsequent projects including data protection patterns that we used to layout metal ventilation panels on the building’s facades. The second key project was Metropol Parasol built in Seville Spain in 2011. There we combined the lively urban space with mixing various programs to create vital multilayered environment. These two projects were instrumental in forming a certain catalogue of ideas that can be traced in all of our work that is distinguished by an understanding of architecture as a space for communication and framed by a strong sculptural identity.