Broadcasting Architecture - Image Essay by Edwin Gardner

Broadcasting Architecture

Nothing beats daylight

Volume No. 3

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BROADCASTING ARCHITECTURE featuring The Hokusai Wave by Alejandro Zaera-Polo; Systems vs. Icons by Vincente Guallart; The Delft Attraction by Dirk van den Heuvel; The Architectural Archis vol. 20, #3 Exhibition as Medium and Message by Arjen Oosterman; Transnational Spaces, a Bauhaus Dessau research; photo essays about the ultimate success of architecture per issue â‚Ź 15

TO BEYOND OR NOT TO BE

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Guidance photo Guglielmo de’ Micheli photo Marcel Molle

photo Tobias Gerber / Bilderberg / HH

photo Timothy A. Clary / ANP

Masterplan Ghent

Richard Meier showing his Getty Center

Tourists at ‘Bilbao’

Masterplan Jena / SHK

Shanghai

Fordham Spire, Chicago

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Mario Botta

Howard Roark in The Fountainhead, 1949

Wiel Arets in his own design

Daniel Libeskind shows his winning World Trade Center site design to Michael Bloomberg

Guidance |

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Holocaust Memorial by Peter Eisenman, Berlin

Happiness

photo Armin Linke

www.brickshelf.com

www.blindimagephotography.com

courtesy MTV Networks

Happiness |

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from Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, 1948 This is where we find Mr. Simms: [the architect in Mr.Blandings Builds His Dream House, ed.] earnest but cowed, unable to weigh in on technical issues, seemingly second to everyone on the job site.

After a scene in which the Blandings hijack the schematic design of

their home, wrestling with Simms for control of the drafting board, the architect is reduced to an all-but-outdated legal necessity: the guy who stamps the drawings.

His only real service is to render reflections of the Blandings’ own starryeyed dreams.

Philip Nobel, ‘Who built Mr.Blandings’ dream house?’, Mark Lamster (ed.), Architecture and Film, Princeton Architectural Press, 2000

Huis ten Bosch Resort, Nagasaki, Japan

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Brochure from Proper Stok

Structure

www.biochemsoctrans. org

image Prof. P. Fromherz, Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie

Structure |

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from The Matrix Reloaded The Architect: The first matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art, flawless, sublime.

A triumph equaled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is as apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human

being, thus I redesigned it based on your history to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of your nature. However, I was again frustrated by failure. I have since come to understand that the answer eluded me because it required a lesser mind, or perhaps a mind

less bound by the parameters of perfection. Thus, the answer was stumbled upon by another, an intuitive program, initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche. If I am the father of the matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother.

Rat Neuron on a Silicon Chip

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Mood

Engineering photo Armin Linke

courtesy Serpentine Gallery, London

courtesy Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences

from Just Imagine, 1930

from the musical 42nd Street

from Metropolis, 1927

courtesy Astralwerks Records

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Batman

drawing of the War Room by Ken Adam from Dr. Strangelove Cool and depersonalized, Adam’s looming forms and menacing perspectives conflate the war room and the board room to evoke a post-atomic landscape of limitless power. They are intimidating spaces where Orwellian organizations with ominous names like Spectre, Power, and the Pentagon mastermind

global conspiracies of Cold War violence and death.

To depict a society that glamorizes death as stylish sport, Adam transformed military hardware into Warhol-like icons of mass destruction. The Giant map in the War Room of Dr. Strangelove (1964 ed.), for example, acted as a superpower scoreboard,

rendering mankind’s extinction as more show than substance; a graphic spectacle detached from reality of human suffering.

Donald Albrecht, ‘Dr. Caligari’s Cabinets: The Set Design of Ken Adam’, Mark Lamster (ed.), Architecture and Film, Princeton Architectural Press, 2000

from Domu by Katsuhiro Otomo

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Hong Kong

from The Woman, 1939, set-design by Cedric Gibbons

Power

Play photo Matthew Cavanaugh / ANP

courtesy National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution photo Keith Mellnick

Rose Revolution, Georgia 2003

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As a foreign policy planner in the late 1940s and 1950s, George F. Kennan is considered to have been the ‘architect’ of the Cold War with his call for containment of the Soviet Union.

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