ANTHONY NAZARENO
Creative Director, NGDC
This US-trained architect endeavours to create sensorial architecture that balances the visual and the visceral, where design aesthetics elevates the human senses. A California College of the Arts graduate, Nazareno started his design career in San Francisco with celebrated modernist architect Jim Jennings.
What is your favourite building? The German National Pavilion at the Barcelona Exposition is now more commonly known as the Barcelona Pavilion. It was designed by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich for the 1929 Barcelona International Expo. It’s my favourite due to the choice and use of
materials that until now I use in my architecture, such as Roman travertine and quarter-matched marble. The building is a testament to how art becomes part of architecture, which is how I try to frame my architecture.
Which among your work is your favourite so far? My favourite work is always the last one I have completed. Having said that, if I were to choose, it would have to be the Residence at Makiling Reserve and Bahay Huni.
By far, the chair, specifically the lounge chair. I can take myself away from my surroundings by getting lost in a book in a lounge chair. A specific one would be the Red and Blue Chair by Gerrit Rietveld, not necessarily because of how comfortable it is, but because of how well it was designed as part of the Rietveld Schröder House.
