| Architecture & Design Film Festival 2017 - Program 5 |
| | Program 5
Getting Frank Gehry Director: Sally Aitken 59 min / 2015 / Australia
Screening with Drone Cities Director: Oliver Manzi
2017 / 15 min / UK
Nov 2 @ 9:30
Nov 5 @ 2:45
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| Getting Frank Gehry Director: Sally Aitken 59 min / 2015 / Australia |
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The University of Technology, Sydney’s new
business school, is Frank Gehry’s daring ‘Treehouse project’, otherwise known
as the 'crumpled brown paper bag’ to its critics. At first sight, the school
will almost certainly shock anyone not already familiar with Gehry’s work
elsewhere around the world. Designed to be radical inside and out, the building
is sure to provoke conflicts for decades, and yet is highly likely to be hailed
as a masterpiece of early 21st century architecture, just as so many of his
other creations have already been. The film follows the drama as Gehry’s vision
for this commission is realized. Through the construction of this building, we
examine his challenging work over a period of 40 years. Four key phases of
creativity, epitomized by four great buildings, The Gehry House, The Vitra
Museum, The Guggenheim Bilbao and MIT’s Stata Centre, chart the evolution of
ideas over a lifetime of controversy to play out on the downtown Sydney
construction site. Drawing on a life's work defined by controversial and
ground-breaking ideas, the world's greatest architect has inaugurated his first
Australian building - and debate still rages over whether it is eyesore or
icon. |
| Drone Cities Director: Oliver Manzi
2017 / 15 min / UK |
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| | As drones
increasingly become part of the fabric of modern life, Dezeen asks: how are
they going to change architecture? A variety of experts in the field speak to
us about how drones will change the way we see and construct buildings, and how
the cities of the future will be transformed by a new kind of traffic. |
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