"Living Architectures", vanguard of the architecture vérité movement

2015-02-13T15:19:00-05:00

After the opening fanfare and any historical revisitations aside, most buildings don’t get much press, and it can be easy to forget that the building is still alive – chugging along, doing its thing. But those peaks and troughs form the cultural impact of architecture on daily life, priming how humans perceive future architectures. Documenting that internal life, in all its mundanities and triumphs, are filmmakers Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, whose architectural-introspective films peek into the lives of the very humans closest to the buildings.

“Living Architectures” is the Paris-based pair's series of short films, interviewing and observing those humans intimately involved with a significant building – electricians, housecleaners, residents, caretakers. Their focal point, however, is always the architecture, which is helplessly anthropomorphized through its humans’ experiences. Bêka and Lemoine do not play architecture critic in these films; they’re trying to show, and not tell, h...

In Memoriam: Horace Havemeyer III

2014-03-21T12:13:00-04:00

Yesterday, March 19, Horace Havemeyer III, Metropolis’s founding publisher passed away peacefully at his home in New York City. Death released him from the suffering brought on by complications from CIDP, a chronic neurological disorder that rendered him quadriplegic in mid-2011. He was 72.

Thanks for giving us Metropolis, Horace.

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"Living Architectures", vanguard of the architecture vérité movement

In Memoriam: Horace Havemeyer III