Archinect - News 2024-04-28T12:04:59-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/91684666/spike-jonze-s-her-a-refreshingly-original-take-on-a-future-l-a Spike Jonze's 'Her' a refreshingly original take on a future L.A. Alexander Walter 2014-01-20T14:11:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/b8/b8f20f020d64d84f8000af31228e9540?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The city has dense clusters of tall towers and a mass-transit system to rival London's. Cars seem to have been banished. [...] The sidewalks and the rail stations are crowded with people. It's as if a benevolent Robert Moses, a planning dictator with a green agenda, had taken over the political realm in Los Angeles.</p></em><br /><br /><p> Related: <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/90756275/elizabeth-diller-on-spike-jonze-s-her" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Elizabeth Diller on Spike Jonze's 'Her'</a></p> https://archinect.com/news/article/90756275/elizabeth-diller-on-spike-jonze-s-her Elizabeth Diller on Spike Jonze's 'Her' Archinect 2014-01-08T13:20:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/1d/1d989acaa2bb25cf90d80ac4f404684c?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>In doing press for the film, Jonze has repeatedly credited New York architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, AIA, founding principals of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, with helping him devise the feel of his settings. Diller took time to chat with ARCHITECT about the film, as well as the uncanny qualities of the near-future and why she generally prefers murder stories to sci-fi.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>