Architecture in a Mode of Distraction: Eight Takes on Jacques Tati’s Playtime

La oscuridad, la inquietud y la calidad de la dislocación de la relación entre el cine y la arquitectura son revelados por su opuesto, de forma divertida, en la secuencia del principio del filme Playtime de Jacques Tati, en la cual un hospital y un aeropuerto son vistos como sinónimos arquitectónicos. La ciudad visitada desde este aeropuerto-hospital, situada en la periferia de París, sirve ahora como substituto de la experiencia real de París. Buscar diferencias sólo sirve para advertir su divertido juego, desestabilizador, de semejanzas recogido en este ensayo.ENG: The dark, disquieting, and dislocating quality of the relationship between film and architecture is revealed in its opposite light, amusingly teased out, in Jacques Tati’s opening sequence to the film Playtime, in which hospital and an airport are seen as architecturally synonymous. The city that this airport-cum-hospital serves is itself, in the periphery of Paris that now substitutes for the real experience of Paris. The overlay of seeming differences only serves to point out their amusing, if unsettling, similarities gathered in this essay.Peer Reviewe

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Peer Reviewe

Between ornament and monument : Siegfried Kracauer and the architectural implications of the mass ornament

Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium vom 24. bis 27. April 2003 in Weimar an der Bauhaus-Universität zum Thema: ‚MediumArchitektur - Zur Krise der Vermittlung

Culture of Circulation

Presented on March 31, 2017 at the 2017 Spring Symposium on Architecture, Phantasmagoria, and the Culture of Contemporary Capitalism in the Architecture Library, Architecture West Building, College of Design at Georgia Tech.Session OneJoan Ockman is Distinguished Senior Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design and Visiting Professor at Cooper Union School of Architecture. An architecture educator, historian, writer, and editor, she has edited Architecture Culture 1943-1968, The Pragmatist Imagination, and Out of Ground Zero. She is currently completing a collection of essays titled Architecture Among Other Things, to be published next year by Actar.Runtime: 26:29 minutesOnce upon a time, in the days when modern architecture was young, circulation through a building was primarily a functional problem. By the mid-twentieth century, when the monument building morphed into the spectacle-building, the circulation system began to take on aesthetic implications of its own and to become a central feature of a building’s architectural identity. Think of Wright’s Guggenheim Museum or Saarinen’s TWA Terminal. Of course, Baroque architects already appreciated the expressive potential of dynamic scenography four centuries ago. But today the mania for circulation spaces manifest in cutting-edge architecture goes well beyond formal virtuosity. Escalators, ramps, elevators, stairs, bridges, catwalks—these privileged elements of contemporary buildings not only belong to a form-making culture that at all costs (figuratively and literally) wishes to avoid the appearance of fixity, but emanate from the very structure of the neocapitalist imaginary. In this talk we attempt an allegorical reading of architecture’s “culture of circulation.” What are the implications of an architecture that is about circulation

Architecture criticism ideology

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Architecture Culture 1943 - 1968 : A Documentary Anthology

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Arquitectura en modo de distracción: ocho tomas sobre Playtime de Jacques Tati

La oscuridad, la inquietud y la calidad de la dislocación de la relación entre el cine y la arquitectura son revelados por su opuesto, de forma divertida, en la secuencia del principio del filme Playtime de Jacques Tati, en la cual un hospital y un aeropuerto son vistos como sinónimos arquitectónicos. La ciudad visitada desde este aeropuerto-hospital, situada en la periferia de París, sirve ahora como substituto de la experiencia real de París. Buscar diferencias sólo sirve para advertir su divertido juego, desestabilizador, de semejanzas recogido en este ensayo

Architecture, criticism, ideology

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