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No Festival Required Presents
The Competition by Director and Producer Angel Borrego Cubero
A production by Office for Strategic Spaces (OSS)
Cast of participant architects:
Frank Gehry
Jean Nouvel
Zaha Hadid
Dominique Perrault
Norman Foster
SPONSORS
azarchitecture/Jarson and Jarson Real Estate
http://azarchitecture.com/
Woodesign
http://www.woodesign.us
Review quote
"For anyone with the slightest suspicion of the insidious, futile processes at work behind the glossy facades of the world's so-called 'starchitects', a new documentary by Spanish architect Angel Borrego Cubero makes for compulsive viewing
The Guardian, Oliver Wainwright
Synopsis
A documentary movie constructed as an almost uncomfortable but intensely fascinating account of how some of the best architects in the world, design giants like Jean Nouvel or Frank Gehry, toil, struggle and strategize to beat the competition. While nearly as old as the profession itself, architectural competitions became a social, political and cultural phenomenon of the post-Guggenheim Bilbao museums and real estate bubbles of the recent past. Taking place at the dramatic moment in which the bubble became a crisis, this is the first competition to be documented in excruciatingly raw detail.
Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry, Dominique Perrault, Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster are selected to participate in the design of the future National Museum of Art of Andorra, a first in the Pyrenees small country. Norman Foster drops out of the competition after a change in the rules that allow the documentary to happen. Three months of design work go into the making of the different proposals, while, behind doors, a power struggle between the different architects and the client has a profound impact on the level of transparency granted by each office to the resident documentary crew, and which has a definite influence in the material shown in the film.
The presentations to the jury happen in one intense day close to election time in Andorra, becoming a hot event in the tiny country, with media all around the international stars that may help shape its future. Of the four remaining architects three show up to make personal presentations, every one of which becomes a fascinating study in personality, strategy, character, showmanship and a dramatic moment in which any detail becomes both important and irrelevant, the line between failure and success perfectly imperceptible. But does the jury have the last word?
The Competition is the first film documenting the tense developments that characterize architectural contests.
Running time 99 minutes, subtitled in English.
More reviews!
"Angel Borrego Cubero's wonderfully gossipy film The Competition () offers a revealing glimpse of life at a big - name practice."
ICON, Owen Pritchard
"The Competition offers a rare and comical look at the inner workings of some of the most prestigious firms in the business and sheds light on the ways stararchitects carefully curate their public images."
Architectural Record, Laura Mirviss
"A real ethnographic piece that reveals the intricacies and processes behind the international architectural competitions"
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| Wednesday Mar 23, 2016 7:00 PM - Wednesday Mar 23, 2016 8:45 PM | $8.00 |
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LocationThird Street Theater, Phoenix Center for the Arts (View)
1202 North 3rd Street
Phoenix, AZ 85004
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 11 |
| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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