Where are you from?
From Dubnica nad Váhom.

Where did you study?
Faculty of Architecture and Design, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

Who was your best teacher?
My relatives.

Who were/are your parents?
My mom was a nurse and my dad was an electrician.

What don’t you enjoy in design?
Superficiality, temporariness, laziness.

And on the contrary, what do you?
Quality, humility, sincerity.

What do you listen to?
Almost everything of a certain quality. More and more podcasts.

Your favourite film, cartoon, series?
I don’t do an imaginary ranking and it’s always something different depending on the season of life, but I love the humor of Larry David and Fran Lebowitz in Curb Your Enthusiasm and Pretend It’s a Feeling.

Who do you respect as an authority in and out of your field?
That’s a long list, but individuals and collectives with an inexhaustible desire to improve the environment around them, as well as themselves and their own abilities, would probably appear on it most often.

What thing did you last buy?
A lapel pin for my passport and fuel.

Do you buy professional literature? What was the latest book?
Of course. The latest is Clay & Lime renders on natural plasters. I bought it a while back, but I donated it outright. I do that a lot and then I re-order.

Do you vote?
I do.

Who throws the best parties?
My boyfriend, the ones for me.

Your favourite dome?
The pool at the Tempodrom in Berlin.

Party dress. Made by…?
I have one jacket from Petra Kubíková that I love, but usually if I go somewhere, it’s straight out of the studio in casual “work”.

Your hero from the past?
Emily Roebling.

Best/nicest house?
Not the house, but the Leça da Palmeira pool in Porto.

Do you have any stereotypes when you work? How do they show?
I definitely do, but if I could name them, they probably wouldn’t exist anymore.

What’s on your desktop?
Default background, but I rarely work my way up to it.

Best exhibition, work of art?
Rothko at the Albertina.

What do you respect both from the local and foreign design scene? And why?
I’m not going to name names because it always makes me sad when I forget, so I’d rather say that I admire architects who, even in our market, can get to a result with a higher quality, with honesty of materials, contextual connection and durability.

Ethics or money?
Everything.

Extraordinary book?
Une question de mesure: Álvaro Siza. I repeatedly forgot to get off the tram.

Optimist, pessimist, nihilist?
Which day?

Do you have any hobby?
Synchronized swimming in the highest age category 😀 😀

Solo or in a collective?
In a small collective.

Slovakia as the Promised Land?
I hope someday.