Speed Date / MICHAL MARCINOV, landscape architect

Where are you from?
Žilina.

Where did you study?
FA STU / FCE STU.

Who was your best teacher?
The teacher Vršanská at the primary school in Žilina.

Who were/ are your parents?
My father was a graduated mechanical engineer and my mother worked in the textile industry.

What don’t you enjoy in design?
Accounting and clumsiness.

And on the contrary, what do you?
What surprises me.

What do you listen to?
Electronica and classical music (childhood thanks to my dad on DM, the Queen).

Your favourite film or cartoon?
Most recently The Professor, I’ve dropped the series.

Who do you respect as an authority in and out of your field?
In the field Vladimír Sitta and Peter Fink for approach to work and outside I’m outside now…

What thing did you last buy?
Daily Menu.

Do you buy professional literature? What was the latest book?
Yes. The last one was finally Era21 – “Blue Earth”.

Do you vote?
Yes.

Who throws the best parties?
Lately my kids (4 and 2 yrs old).

Your favourite dome?
Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

Party dress. Made by…?
I don’t wear dresses.

Your hero from the past?
Italian Stallion.

Best/nicest house?
Without the messy and crooked windows.

Do you have any stereotypes when you work? How do they show?
I buy salty sticks for everyone.

What’s on your desktop?
Things for the trash.

Best exhibition, work of art?
Most recently the All-Russian Exhibition Center.

What do you respect both from the local and foreign design scene? And why?
From the local scene, colleagues with whom we occasionally collaborate. From the older generation BKPŠ. From the foreign Bas Smets, Topotek.

Ethics or money?
Too much of everything is harmful.

Extraordinary book?
Simon Shama, Landscape and Memory.

Optimist, pessimist, nihilist?
A little of each every day.

Do you have any hobby?
Morning run.

Solo or in a collective?
4 -7 a.m. individually, 7 a.m. – 4 p.m. collectively.

Slovakia as the Promised Land?
Well deserved.

25 / 2 / 2020
by MAG D A
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