Tag: Movie

  • Video of the Week – Future by Airbus

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    It has been a busy week here at the Architectural Centre website, but I couldn’t not post this one – so here is a little something for your Friday afternoon entertainment: Sweet! 

  • The City and the City

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    So, I’ve just finished reading China Miéville’s novel The city and the city – the first novel I’ve actually made it through in quite some time. Courtesy of Wikipedia, here is the low-down on the dual cities that are the main character/s of the book: The City & The City takes place in the cities of Besźel and…

  • Video of the Week XII: Poundbury: Building Communities

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    Here is a companion piece to the Prince Charles post of a couple of weeks ago (I hope it is clear by now that my Zaha comments were made with tongue embedded firmly in cheek…). Here, for your viewing pleasure (or displeasure perhaps?), is a very short clip propounding the virtues of Poundbury: What do…

  • Video of the Week XI: Libidinal Gehry confronts asexual Eisner

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    I’d like to say the title says it all, but the mental image is just too disturbing – and there isn’t really a whole lot of confronting going on. What we are exposed to here (if I can use that expression to open a discussion of sexuality), is an excellent piece of post-design rationalization from…

  • Video of the Week VIII: Mister Glasses (episode 1)

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    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…

  • Video of the Week VII: The Architects Sketch

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    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…

  • Video of the Week VI: smack the pony – architects

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    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…