Archinect - Features 2024-05-07T07:54:58-04:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150097500/archinectmeets-zhestkov #ArchinectMeets @zhestkov Shane Reiner-Roth 2018-11-27T11:59:00-05:00 >2018-11-27T12:00:07-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/94/949cd3d2d5c36cfd1eb55b76af6527b8.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/features/tag/1198457/archinectmeets" target="_blank">#ArchinectMeets</a>&nbsp;is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram&rsquo;s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has affected their practice.</p> <p>Social media has undeniably affected the way we perceive, interpret and share opinions about architecture today. While we use our own account,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/archinect/" target="_blank">@Archinect</a>, as a site for image curation and news content, we wanted to ask fellow Instagram users how they navigated the platform.</p> <p>We spoke to&nbsp;Maxim Zhestkov, the media artist and director behind @zhestkov. Trained in architecture and digital technology, Zhestkov&nbsp;launched a <a href="http://zhestkov.studio" target="_blank">studio/workshop</a>&nbsp;where he with his friends and colleagues developing new forms of moving images and producing motion content for brands and&nbsp;companies all over the world. His videos exist on Instagram to bridge the divide between architecture and the latest in dig...</p> https://archinect.com/features/article/97105527/interview-with-john-szot-of-architecture-and-the-unspeakable-film-series Interview with John Szot of "Architecture and the Unspeakable" film series Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2014-04-04T17:45:00-04:00 >2021-05-22T11:16:04-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0j/0jjezgt975e02hay.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><em>Architecture and the Unspeakable</em> is a triptych of short, magnificently animated films, each exploring a different symptom of architecture&rsquo;s vulnerabilities. Produced by <a href="http://archinect.com/brooklyndigitalfoundry" target="_blank">Brooklyn Digital Foundry</a> and directed by architect John Szot, the films feature architecture proposals from <a href="http://archinect.com/firms/cover/1556/john-szot" target="_blank">John Szot Studio</a>, imagining distinct fictional buildings in New York, Tokyo, and Detroit -- all animated in striking digital realities.</p>