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Interview: Xavier Esselinck
Interview:Xavier Esselinck (XY Architecture,Paris) in Wuhan by LuRui(Wuhan Lab)
Since our project is titled “About:Wuhan” What's your impress about this city?Well, it’s really difficult to answer seriously because I stayed only a couple of days in Wuhan, and I did not have enough time to really see a so important city. However, my first impression about your city is everything is going ahead very quickly, and hardly. The change in China is so fast and so deep that human history is not in the first position. It is not the first preoccupation in front of the change. Of course, I’m coming from an old country, where it is sometimes very difficult to move and to add modernity in classical or ancient structures ; probably we need your energie, but you also can take attention to some of the slowness that we live: to go fast has advantages sometimes, but it is really difficult to reconstruct the past, when everything is gone…
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