Tony Fretton. Calculated Ambiguity

There is something about Tony Fretton’s architecture that is not easy to capture. Something that draws us in and makes it difficult for us to detach ourselves or to forget his work. It’s something seemingly simple, that has to do with forms. Sometimes it is the way his buildings hug the ground, as if placed there directly, with no mediating elements. Sometimes it is the way his windows seem to create a natural relationship with the exterior or, more in general, the way his buildings relate with their surroundings, like actors on stage. But at the same time, it is something more complex. It has to do with the character of the forms, their incompleteness, their «calculated ambiguity».