![]() It should be clear that they’re materials. No matter how complex or advanced the construction is, you’re still using materials and that use should be clear. One of the main criticisms of present architecture would be that the architects are not interested in the materials as materials, as they’re used in the construction. RW: Wherever I could see your architecture, I noticed certain materials you use, and certain kinds of structures you consider when you rework an existing building.ĭJ: Well, a lot of architects over the past thousands of years have thought the materials were very important, and I think the materials are very important - absolutely fundamental. I’ve always had a lot of work by other artists. But all the spaces I lived in New York I reworked for myself - to live in and for my work and for other people’s work. RW: Where was your first architectural project? Was it here in Marfa?ĭJ: It was the building in New York. I’ve been doing it for myself for twenty, thirty, forty years, and happily it’s possible now to do it in cooperation with other people. But I’m thoroughly interested in architecture. But I had already, in a way, fundamentally decided to be an artist. To some extent, when I was in the army in Korea, which was 1947 without a war, I thought of being an architect. I was interested as a child and thought about it and made sketches, which I no longer have. ![]() RW: How did you find your way into architecture?ĭJ: I was always interested in architecture. ![]() Regina Wyrwoll: I’m very curious, when you give a lecture to students, what do you tell them about architecture? What is the main aspect you emphasize?ĭonald Judd: That’s a very general question and I always have a lot of trouble with general questions. It was Judd’s last interview he died in February 1994. It was conducted in conjunction with Wyroll’s 1994 film Bauhaus, Texas, a documentary made for German television about Donald Judd and his work in Marfa. The following pages present an edited excerpt from an interview that took place on October 4-5, 1993 in Judd’s architecture office and library in Marfa, Texas.
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