E studi Martí Franch studio founder Martí Franch Batllori spoke with Alex Breedon and Liam Mouritz about slowness, resourcefulness and experimentation in his landscape architecture practice; maintenance as a design practice; and site engagement possibilities over extended time frames.
Liam Mouritz – What kind of work does your practice focus on?
In Catalonia, the architectural profession is very dominant, and there hasn’t been a strong tradition of landscape architecture, particularly in regard to the design of public space. When I established the practice in 1999, it was very difficult to find work in cities, so we started in remote natural areas and villages, essentially because no other design practices were claiming this territory. The first thing you face in these places is that you have almost
