The AW Interview with Andrew Zago

The principal and owner of Zago Architecture, Andrew Zago has been engaged in conversations about architecture, urbanism, and education for over twenty-five years. In the AW Interview with editor Mary Ann O’Donnell, Zago charts the relationship between art and architecture, or drawings and construction. The dialogue also provides insight into Zago’s quest to discover and open up new aesthetic territory in the spaces of overlap and distances between these two practices. The purpose of this exploration is to expand our understanding of the possibilities of architecture as a discipline, as an expression of ethics, and as a political practice. The moral of the story is that as a society, if we want to reimagine and reshape the world, we need to support artists and individuals who are doing the creative work that nourishes the urban ecosystem.

安德鲁·扎戈简介

扎戈建筑事务所（Zago Architecture）负责人， 安德鲁·扎戈（Andrew Zago）致力于建筑行业、城市发展以及教育领域的相互对话，已有25个年头了。本期《世界建筑导报》，扎戈将应邀与编辑玛丽·安·欧唐纳（Mary Ann O’Donnell）对话，一同来梳理艺术与建筑之间的关系（或者说绘画与构造的关系）。他试图在这两大领域的异同之间发现新的美学内涵，从这次谈话中我们也可以一窥扎戈的这一诉求。建筑作为一门学科，在他的探索中将会呈现出更丰富的可能性。这里，建筑不只是一门学科，它也可能是一种伦理表现甚或是政治实践。这一次谈话也引申出一个道德话题，那就是如果我们要重新塑造这个世界，那些致力于创造性工作的艺术家和个体就应该得到社会的支持，因为城市生态正是得益于他们的工作。

扎戈毕业于密歇根大学（University of Michigan）获得学士学位，并于哈佛大学获得建筑学硕士，现任教于南加州建筑学院（Southern California Institute of Architecture），同时也是该校视觉研究项目的协调专员。扎戈还于伊利诺伊州立大学芝加哥建筑分院（University of Illinois Chicago School of Architecture）担任助理教授，在罗马美国学院（American Academy in Rome）也获得教职，他还是华盛顿总务管理局同行人员注册处（National Register of Peer Professionals of the General Services Administration in Washington）的会员。扎戈曾获得美国艺术文学院（American Academy of Arts and Letters）颁发的建筑学术奖并受到“美国艺术家”协会（United States Artists Organization）的资金赞助。