Born in Equador, raised in Chile, educated in the United States and finally practicing Architecture in Germany, Pablo Molestina has grounded his architectural career firmly in the nomadic condition of today’s global culture. After graduating from Yale and MIT he started to work with Hassan Fathy in Egypt to study and experiment with the logic of vernacular architecture, an experience which was to influence his later work in terms of an interest in unconventional building techniques and the architectural materiality of local conditions. Ever since he set up his practice in Germany with partner Michael Kraus in 1991, he has been exploring the transforming condition of habitation through a series of built projects reaching from private residences to multi-party housing to temporary homes for elderly people. One of his concerns is how specific social parameters affect the definition of living, both in its performative and typological dimension. How does the social condition of a dinky couple (double income, no kinds) inform the architectural definition of their house -predominantly absented because of their busy professional lives- as opposed to the social condition of a single aged person spending virtually the entire duration of the day in an elderly home, which beyond a mere building takes on the properties of an indoor cosmos sheltering the last years of his or her life? Along these lines Molestina is searching for new types of habitation which mould the ever-changing ways of contemporary urban life styles, trying to define volatile typologies based on the singular act of living rather than on generalized notions of domestic routines.	(D)
	Gruppe MDK Architektur und StadtplanungMolestina (Pablo), Kraus (Michael)
	• The Beyers Project réalisé