EP 32 // STUDIO KO
Within the process of their own work, KARL FOURNIER and OLIVIER MARTY, the architecture duo behind STUDIO KO, emphasize the importance of revisiting the past to inform the future. In this episode, we catch the partners delightfully off-guard: FOURNIER and MARTY disclose the underlying influence of music on their projects, describing Bach’s compositions as a carefully constructed audio architecture, alongside to their passion of playing with contrasting ingredients, creating a feel for the sublime through their practice.
“Pierre Bergé, who chose us (for the YSL Museum), used to do workshops in his houses in Tangier, or Saint Remy, so we would go there for a few days... and I remember the last time we saw him, he was playing Mahler and then Schubert... that was the last moment we had with him, and I remember listening to Schubert in the middle of the tree’s in the garden with him just closing his eyes...”
Illustration by Luke Edward Hall