An almost uncomfortable but intensely fascinating 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. — vimeo.com
The film is scheduled for release in late 2013.
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I can't wait to see this! looks really interesting.
agreed, excited to see how this process goes in other offices
lovely. and when my son's sherlock holmes soundtrack kicked in towards the end... much, much better...
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oh man i hope those john nouvel bits are just the tip o' the iceberg 'cause this could be comedy platinum!
" I hope you clearly captured the deepness and the mystery" - Jean Nouvel
You betcha! All the arbitrariness and cynicism of the elite in our profession captured in technicolor. Sarah Palin would approve this message.
im not sure how thats cynical... as for arbitrary... well... if he's decided that "deepness" and "mystery" are critical for this particular client, any effort to achieve that goal is no more arbitrary than you selecting a faucet that meets a critical need for your client...
Sorry, I should have been clearer. Arbitrary in that one clip show an architect fliping a model upside down and seriously contemplating it while another crunches some paper and dropping it on his model and then laughing that it's what Gehry would do (can't say I disagree from Gehry's model) The way Nouvel and his project architect debate making "bigger holes" (or no) to avoid a ventilation grill look. As for cynicism, Nouvel at the end calling the bluff on the same bulls*&# he's selling with his remark about catching the "deepness" of the process. Was he refering to wether his own work was for Pigeons or just a grill. To each his own though.
flipping the model is a classic time-tested design technique! we should all flip more models the world would be so much better
HA! I don't honestly think flipping the model is so terrible. Sometimes you have to just do something totally different to shake youre head loose and get off the track you've been on for the past several hours, days, weeks... whatever... maybe in flipping the model over you realize that creating a sort of forced view to/from the ground might be a better option than to the sky, or whatever those big channels were for... i think its pretty sweet... what other people get paid to do that kind of stuff... or, might get paid i guess...
architecture as a game of craps...why not. We can call it crapism, or just taking a dump.
Some reviews are in!
“A film of subtle shifts and slowly dawning disclosures…Who would have thought it would take a formalist project about sheep to burrow so deeply into the secret sorrows of the working class?”— ANDREW SCHENKER, ART FORUM
Oh wait...that was a review for Sweetgrass, a beautiful, nearly dialogue-free documentary about moving a flock of sheep into the mountains for the season. Frankly, that Competition movie sounds too stressful and close-to-home for me; but I think I'll watch Sweetgrass again.
This trailer makes the profession look rather shallow not deep. Very sad.
this trailer makes the profession look rather AWESOME!
and Q, the purpose of flipping the model is to change the architecture's relationship to the ground - yes it's a nit-picky point but an important one in my oh-so-humble opinion
i would very much like to see this
please release please
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