Cláudia Gonçalves

For Cláudia Gonçalves, the day has twice as many hours. Or the same hours with two days in between. There’s her “normal” day job and then there’s CRG Studio, where she imagines, photographs and communicates ceramic pieces. A “second job” that arrived quietly to fill the hours left vacant by the pandemic and which hasn’t stopped growing since.
Alongside a career with many challenges, we understand how ceramics, which has always been close at hand, has come to the fore in the architect’s life.

The soundscape features timeless music by Vivaldi and Debussy and more recent future classics by Sharon Van Etten and Black Sea Dahu.

In this series of interviews, we talk to architects who haven’t followed the traditional path of the profession: with one foot in architecture, their professional activity has found fertile ground in other creative fields. We navigate between expectations and archetypes: we try to understand how a degree in architecture made an alternative career path possible, how this “transition” took place and where this matrix still manifests itself in their daily activity.
We talk in the workspace of each guest, who also chooses the soundtrack, between the music they listen to while working or simply the music they can’t stop listening to.