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Stanley Kubrick enters the spotlight at the Design Museum

2019-04-25T18:54:00-04:00

As any student of architecture or design will know, the attendance of a Stanley Kubrick exhibition is an experience not to miss. The recently opened exhibition at London's Design Museum, following those at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Barcelona's CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona), is the most in-depth yet, set in the country where the director lived and produced nearly all of his work. As Oliver Wainwright writes in his review of the exhibition, "[Kubrick] was scared of flying, so the vast majority of his films were shot in the UK. If he wouldn’t travel then the world would be brought to him, at astonishing lengths."

Production designer Ken Adam’s sketch for the war room in Dr Strangelove. Photograph: © Sir Kenneth Adam

According to its website, the exhibition "features about 700 objects, films, interviews, letters and photographs. Expect to see a detailed model of the Centrifuge-set that Kubrick had developed for 2001: A Space Odyssey; film props such a...

An LA architect has recreated Kubrick's infamous "2001" bedroom scene

2017-03-30T13:01:00-04:00

Although the LACMA exhibition a few years ago featuring props from Stanley Kubrick's films was, as cineastes say, "nifty," there's something even niftier on view at The 14th Factory: an elaborately detailed, fully inhabitable set recreated from the still-powerful ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Architect Paul Kember worked with artist Simon Birch to put the set together.

Instead of gazing at individual pieces from the films, you can now essentially occupy the film in a completely new way. As Adam Woodward over at thespaces.com notes, "With its stark white walls, luminous floor and ornate Renaissance decor fit for Louis XVI, the room is instantly recognisable as the centrepiece of arguably the most pored-over ending in movie history. It’s also a superlative piece of set design." To visit, make sure to make reservations for tickets, selected by date and the time of day of your visit, through the website.

Deyan Sudjic's London Spacecraft, 1985

2011-12-29T12:28:39-05:00

British journalist and author (then) and now Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic's awesome London loft, designed by Ridley Scott and Stanley Kubrick. It actually itself looks like a small Design Museum itself, or a spaceship that's been travelling around galaxies, curating.

‪Film psychology THE SHINING spatial awareness and set design

2011-07-26T13:26:51-04:00

How Stanley Kubrick used Escher-styled spacial awareness & set design anomolies to disorientate viewers of his horror classic The Shining.