Category: Video of the Week
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Video of the Week IX: Le Corbusier’s Mediterranean cabanon comes to London
The blurb says: Le Corbusier’s summer cabin – a tiny bolthole built in the south of France for his wife – has been reconstructed at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London. Jonathan Glancey steps inside to discover what it tells us about the architect’s other monumental buildings It’s kind of mind-blowing that it is in this space…
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Video of the Week VIII: Mister Glasses (episode 1)
This is actually the first episode of 6 short stylishly noir Mister Glasses film clips (although for some reason episode 5 is missing). Never before has the relationship between love, sex, patricide, and Modernist architecture been so clearly expressed – it’s enough to make contemporary Modernist revivalism look hollow and superficial in comparison to the seriousness with…
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Video of the Week VII: The Architects Sketch
The Architect Sketch (by John Cleese and Graham Chapman) If some of you found that last week’s video resonated all to familiarly, then try this one on for size. It is a pretty famous Monty Python sketch, so there is a good chance that you’ll have seen it before, but it is definitely worth another…
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Video of the Week VI: smack the pony – architects
Smack the Pony, according to Wikipedia, was a British sketch comedy show that ran from 1999 until 2003 on Channel 4 (some of you out there might have seen them?). Weirdly, its title was intended to sound like a euphemism for female masturbation – something I won’t tag this post with in case it gets too popular amongst a demographic that we are…
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Video of the Week V: Los Angeles Plays Itself
Ok – enough of the sordid student activities (for now at least). How ’bout something a little more cerebral, in the form of a discussion of the role of Modernist houses in Hollywood movies. The somewhat droll announcer explores the association of villainy with Modernism – something to keep in mind when you pen the design for your next…
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Video of the Week IV: Studio Slasher – Death by Architecture
More student studio madness – this time created by 5th year honours students in Architecture (WITS University) as a response to last week’s video… I hope this doesn’t bring back too many memories… m-d
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Dancing With Architecture
For those stumbling over how to promote that new iconic design maybe these links will provide some inspiration… Battersea Power Station Empire State Building Petronas Towers I’m sure that they are on to something…enjoy
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Video of the Week III: Pimp My Model
For those of us that remember our student days, or who still require the services of ‘X-Acto’ today, here’s a idea to help give that extra ‘bling’ to your design… Here’s the link to the youtube page if the above video misbehaves… It’s easy to see how the Harvard University Graduate School of Design gets such a prestigious reputation.…
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Video of the Week II: Sony building melody step (some secret commands)
Who’d a thought getting from one level of a building top the next could be so much fun: these are the melody stairs from the Sony Building in Tokyo. Here’s a way to encourage more physical activity and less lift usage – just don’t put my office anywhere near the staircase. And apparently, you get…
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Video of the Week I: Architecture stripped bare
(Warning – this clip features artistic and architectural nudity…) You know you’re in trouble when the opening and closing lines of a short architecture-related video are thus: “What happens if you ask architects to let rip… …Really, architects are at their best when they’re fully dressed [muffled snigger], very serious, and just a little bit…