As part of our Virtual World Tour Season 2, we virtually visited Brazil to meet the architect Marcio Kogan on November 27, 2021.
- Marcio Kogan, Studio MK27, Sao Paulo, www.studiomk27.com.br
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Marcio Kogan’s Talk
Marcio began his professional career as a movie maker to switch then to architecture. We can say though that architecture and cinematography have a lot of similarities: the two arts deal with a spatial and temporal structure. The space rotates around the people that live it, in one case are actors and in the others are users. Architecture and Cinema create space that generate experiences, for the most different life’s situations.
Marcio still brings with him his cinematographic baggage when planning and designing, “from the elongated proportions of a widescreen lens, the importance of light, the importance of teamwork, the moment to moment’s emotions, which to me are always parts of the process of drafting a movie script”, as he explains us during our talk.
Marcio directed 30 short movies and tried directing a long movie, which unfortunately did not reach the expected success. It was in this moment that he decided to dedicate himself completely to architecture.
His cinematographic background and themes are still taken into account when he designs: light, widescreen and storytelling. As much as for movies, light, whether is artificial or nature, plays an important role in architecture as well. Widescreen influenced a lot his work and storytelling helps him to imagine a story around the building, where he creates a character who lives and experience the space.
It was in 2014, when he got invited at Venice Biennale, that he decided to momentarily go back to cinematography and presented a short movie called “This was not my dream”, directed by his son.
Today Marcio, among his other passions, loves to collect pieces, gifts that bring back memories. In his office we can find a little museum of objects, going from a clapperboard that he used for his movies to a signed picture of Fellini.