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b'In this episode Bushra Mohamed interviews Jaume Mayol who is a partner in TEd\\u2019A Arquitectos along with Irene Perez. \\n\\nTheir practice, based in Mallorca is a territorial one, seeking to make its architecture from the lessons in the vernacular of the areas they build - both in the tectonics found there, and in the formal arrangements of elements. This sensibility is married to ideas which emerge from the canon, to produce a hybridity of grounded ideas rigorously resolved. A clear sophistication in their understanding of typology results in an acute refinement in how they consider the internal arrangements and formal disposition of their works. \\n\\nPerhaps more simply stated their plans are exquisite - clearly a central fascination of the practice. Here elements are nested, framed or juxtaposed such that misalignments or tensions emerge in how programmes and the building fabric cohere. \\nStructural elements are frequently deployed as characters occupying the spaces that they make, less an ordering device than an empathetic presence.\\n\\nBased in Mallorca this is not the limit of their definition of their territory. They have concentrated on competitions, mainly in Switzerland. Here their territoriality is disposed as a reading of the swiss context. In their peripheral location, their connection to a territory, and their ability to use this not a a limit but as a liberation to engage with other places as a wonderful example of the contemporary moment in European architecture. \\n\\nhttp://tedaarquitectes.com\\n\\n---------\\nCredits: \\nRegister is brought to you by the Department of Architecture & Landscape at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London http://kingstonarchitecture.london\\n\\nHead of Department: Mary Johnson\\nProducer: Laura Evans / Andrew Clancy\\nInterviewer: Bushra Mohamed\\nEditor: Andrew Clancy'