Mr. Miklos Koós architect, the owner of koos.hu has made an interview with us about blogging. The hungarian text you can read on koos.hu. Here you have the english one:
Koós Miklós építész, a koos.hu tulajdonosa interjút készített velünk a blogolásról. A magyar szöveg a koos.hu-n olvasható, itt az angol változat található:
The Ferdinand brothers have received several international acknowledgement during the last few months.
M.K.:What is your goal or objective with your blog? To make yourself and your webpage better known?
F.F.:Our objective was to make our statical homepage more dynamic with 2-3 posts a week about our studio's everyday work, this was supplemented with arch-interviews made with foreign architects. The posts' topics are sometimes independent from us, but they are always related to architecture.
M.K.:Who or what suggested that you should start a blog?
F.F.:It was a bit annoying, that it was difficult to refresh our home page, that was why we have started the blog as an attachment to the home page.
M.K.:How many post do you make a month?
F.F.:10-12 per month, however these are not all posts, some of them are merely announcements related to our projects.
M.K.:What are your favorite topics and what post types are the most popular?
F.F.:We don't have any pre-defined topics, and so far we have no feedback whatsoever, we are afraid, that we have no such thing as "our most popular topic".
M.K.:Are you posting only about your projects or also about other's?
F.F.:We have started introducing less known, foreign architects. This series has been started with californian studios, later we plan to present Austrian and German architects, too.
M.K.:How many visitors and comments do you have a month?
F.F.:Not a lot.
M.K.:What is your opinion about reaching out to the public with the help of a blog? Did you get better known, or do you feel an increased trust toward you?
F.F.:We have no feedback.
M.K.:Do you select the topics yourself or sometimes do you get ideas from others?
F.F.:We choose them ourselves, but we welcome any new recommandations.
M.K.:How much time do you spend with maintaining the blog?
F.F.:15 minutes avery day, or every second day, without calculating the time we need in our mind.
M.K.:Do you have connection to other bloggers?
F.F.:No, we are flying in the space without controll, faraway from inhabited landscape.
M.K.:What is your favorite Hungarian architecture/ design/ green blog?
F.F.:epiteszforum.hu
M.K.:Do you have an another blog, too?
F.F.:No, but we may get one automatically on worldarchitecture.org-on.
M.K.:Can we find you in the community media (Twitter, Facebook)?
F.F.:We created a profile on Facebook a few days ago.
M.K.:How important do you think is the presence on it?
F.F.:So far we are a little bit sceptic.
M.K.:And at last what is your message to the readers?
F.F.:Maybe it is surprise, but our message isn't talking about architecture but everybody should take care about his or her own body: do not smoke and drink too much, because 10 years from now they will regret it, nobody should destroy him or herself, because everybody is an irreplaceable value.
