Interview with Peter Stasek

Peter Stasek ("PS") interviewed on Tuesday, 14 August.

Could you please tell us about your experience as a designer, artist, architect or creator?

PS : One tries again and again to cover all areas of the desig: from the shape of a building to the interior to furniture design. For me, it has always been important to deal with topics that have not yet been commissioned. Only in this way can one go beyond the limits of reality so often established. However, it was always very interesting that after an imagination and the subsequent study of the topic then often followed by a specific assignment.

How did you become a designer?

PS : I believe that started as a child

What are your priorities, technique and style when designing?

PS : The imagination is always at the beginning. The type of technical implementation is always secondary. It is possible to achieve the best results with the most primitive techniques (if you have no other option)

Which emotions do you feel when designing?

PS : The imagination of the result is an accompanying effect throughout the entire development.

What particular aspects of your background shaped you as a designer?

PS : The space target is the destination.

What is your growth path? What are your future plans? What is your dream design project?

PS : At the moment, however, we are always working on several industrial plants under the aspect of a creative focus. But the realization of skyscraper with vertical farming would be the biggest challenge.

What are your advices to designers who are at the beginning of their career?

PS : Always start on the basis of your own conviction and not be easily influenced by other opinions.

You are truly successful as a designer, what do you suggest to fellow designers, artists and architects?

PS : Keep moving, no matter how heavy the weights are.

What is your day to day look like?

PS : Every day is different and it should stay that way.

How do you keep up with latest design trends? To what extent do design trends matter?

PS : Especially important is the technical development as support for new designer ideas. For this reason, one should always be the first to pursue the idea alone, regardless of the technical options to be used later.

How do you know if a product or project is well designed? How do you define good design?

PS : Of course, first of all the overall appearance with regard to the expected function countsafter that, there is always a closer look at the execution or implementation of details. You can live with many styles of design when they are thoughtfully designed and implemented very well.

How do you decide if your design is ready?

PS : That's a good question.Sometimes it is better to stop developing certain things a little earlier.

What is your biggest design work?

PS : I still believe in it:the size is not the scale! It is always misleading when some believe that one million cubic meters of concrete determines the size of the architecture! For this reason, I consider some smaller projects as much more important than the larger ones. But to answer the specific question: the Dental INN practice project has given me an important approach to all future projects.

Who is your favourite designer?

PS : Zaha Hadid, Massimiliano Fuksas, Hani Rashid

Would you tell us a bit about your lifestyle and culture?

PS : Almost every day I ride a bicycle.I listen to music every day (mostly techno)I like hiking (Austria, Switzerland, Germany)And traveling is also very important to me:the main destination of this year is India

Would you tell us more about your work culture and business philosophy?

PS : I think it is very important to stay relatively independent, even if this is not the easiest way. Only in this way you keep a clear head and can start almost anywhere without prejudice.

What are your philanthropic contributions to society as a designer, artist and architect?

PS : Always demonstrating free thinking seems to me the most important message. Only then can the others come to the conclusion that there is not only a passable way which is dictated by a superior power

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