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The Competition
61 min - Documentary | Comedy | Drama - 2013 (Spain)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2647618/
After succeeding in a big international competition, in a process, which was akin to a thriller, Angel Borrego Cubero decides to make a documentary of this recurring architectural procedure. For the last four years, intense work was dedicated to find, document and edit one into film format. “The Competition” is the first movie of this Spanish director and is also the first film documenting the tense developments that characterize architectural contests.
The movie is constructed as raw account of how some of the best architects in the world, design giants like Jean Nouvel or Frank Gehry, toil, struggle and strategize to beat the competition.
While nearly as old as the profession itself, architectural competitions became a social, political and cultural phenomenon of the post-Guggenheim Bilbao museums and real estate bubbles of the recent past. Taking place at the dramatic moment in which the bubble became a crisis, this is the first one to be documented, in excruciatingly raw detail. But does the jury have the last word?
Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry, Dominique Perrault, Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster are selected to participate in the design of the future National Museum of Art of Andorra, a first in the Pyrenees small country. Norman Foster drops out of the competition after a change in the rules that allow the documentary to happen.
Three months of design work go into the making of the different proposals, while, behind doors, a power struggle between the different architects and the client has a profound impact on the level of transparency granted by each office to the resident documentary crew, and which has a definite influence in the material shown in the film.
The presentations to the jury happen in one intense day close to election time in Andorra, becoming a hot event in the tiny country, with media all around the international stars that may help shape its future. Of the four remaining architects three show up to make personal presentations, every one of which becomes a fascinating study in personality, strategy, character, showmanship… and a dramatic moment in which any detail becomes both important and irrelevant, the line between failure and success perfectly imperceptible
http://www.o-s-s.org/proyectos/competit … mp;ant=227
Et la bande-annonce (via @paul2pma) :
ça promet...
(sortie prévue à la fin de l'année)
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Pathé’s Video Archive Reveals Great Architectural Moments, 1910-1970
The following article originally appeared on Metropolis Magazine as “Five Architectural Highlights from the Pathé Newsreel Archive.” It has been slightly adapted to fit ArchDaily’s format. The video above, from 1930, shows the Empire State Building under construction.
Newsreel archives are a goldmine for design buffs—and when you have an archive of the size and scope of British Pathé’s, there’s hours of compulsive watching in store. The famous film and production company recently put up 85,000 of their videos on Youtube, in high definition, for free viewing.
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Pour les amateurs de cinéma, PlayTime, chef d'oeuvre de Jacques Tati, est ressorti ce mois-ci sur les écrans en version haute définition. L'image est splendide, bluffante, et l'oeil critique et goguenard du cinéaste n'a jamais semblé si précis sur l'architecture de Verre et d'Acier qui préside 50 ans après dans le quartier PRG... A voir (ou revoir) absolument !
Pour en savoir plus :
http://spacefiction.wordpress.com/2013/ … d-offices/
http://ndlr.eu/tati-ville/
http://www.archiver.cc/2009/12/16/la-tativille/
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Film fabuleux, comme tous les films de Tati, et la bande-annonce me donne envie de le revoir.
Paris Rive Gauche ? Dans les gratte-ciels du début (qui ont l'air vrais mais qui sont en fait des modèles réduits), comme dans les façades et les espaces intérieurs, je vois plutôt la Défense, première époque, et les grandes villes américaines, lorsque l'architecture était purement fonctionnaliste (on est loin des délires baroques de le star-chitecture actuelle).
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Architecture
Building an empire: Exploring the architecture of 'Star Wars'
Updated 12th December 2017
Written by Thomas Page, CNN
In January 1973, George Lucas wrote his first treatment for "Star Wars." Words did not come easily to the director, who always considered himself more a filmmaker than a screenwriter, but the universe in his mind was already bulging at the seams.
Having failed to secure the rights to science fiction serial "Flash Gordon," Lucas set out to create his own galaxy, far, far away. Even then, it featured a spacefaring princess, dog fights, warrior monks, and a Manichean battle between good and evil.
But movie bosses were skeptical. "How could he realize this universe?" was the question asked by financers. The answer lay close to home.
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