Rome and a monster. Brought to us by Ray Harryhausen, the stop-action artist who brought us King Kong, (with the help of a few centuries of the Roman Empire).
Sometimes there's architecture IN a film, and sometimes architecture is LIKE a film. But sometimes the architecture IS the film: When it rises above just being a thing to see, and becomes a MECHANISM for a WAY of SEEING, that is the Architecture OF Film
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Architecture of: "Diamonds Are Forever" [1971]
Elrod House, Palm Springs by John Lautner 1968
Ribbon Chair [l] by Pierre Paulin; UP5 Chair & UP6 Ottoman [r] by Gaetano Pesce
For a related post devoted to some Great Furniture in Film, please see "Building Bond..James Bond" on ChairsandBuildings
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Architecture of "Dr. No" [1962]
Art Direction by Ken Adam
A wacky mixture of brutalism, faux-Polynesian-organic and Hollywood-Spanish Colonial. (With high-corporate industrial & retro-Schindleresque details).
