MONICA GARCIA FERNANDEZ



Your favourite virtue ::
Creativity

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
Creativity and imagination

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
Creativity and imagination

Your favourite occupation ::
Creative work (in architecture, design, art...)

Your idea of happiness ::
Working on what I love

Your idea of misery ::
Working on what I hate

If not yourself, who would you be ::
I would like to be a writer

Where would you like to live ::
In a penthouse with a garden, downtown in Madrid

Your favourite colour and flower ::
My favourite colour is red and my flower is Mirabilis jalapa. It opens with the sunset and remains open until the next morning. It also has a very sweet smell

Your favourite prose authors ::
Georges Perec, Haruki Murakami, Chuck Palahniuk, Boris Vian, Alessandro Baricco and Douglas Coupland

Your favourite poets ::
Ángel Gonzalez

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Fox Mulder, Shin Chan

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Dana Scully, Buttercup (Powerpuff Girls)

Your favourite painters and composers ::
David Carson, Chris Ware, John Cage, Brian Eno

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
Any person who pursues a dream and makes it real, in spite of having everything against him.

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
Any person who pursues a dream and makes it real, in spite of having everything against her.

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
Every genocidal tyrant

Your favourite food and drink ::
Grilled goat cheese and lemonade with mint

Your favourite names ::
Nicolás

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) ::
Unuseful and noisy things like alarms and car horns.

The change you most anticipate ::
There are so many architects and architecture students, that I anticipate that many of us will have to change our way of thinking.

A gift of nature which I would like to have ::
The ability of making several things at the same time.

How I would like to die ::
Happy

What is your present state of mind ::
Looking for new creative paths.

Of what fault are you most tolerant ::
Having a messy desk.

Your favourite motto ::
Find a job you like and you will not have to work on a single day of your life (quote attributed to Confucius)

25 septembre 2008

"Mónica García Fernández is an architect. With Javier Rubio, she founded an architecture office based on Madrid (cómo crear historias) for designing spaces, objects and sounds."

website :: cómo crear historias
website :: myspace
website :: flickr

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of Marcel Proust", created by Antoinette Faure around 1890.