- Architecture in Russia before, during and after Stalin In London for “The Center Cannot Hold” conference, we had the opportunity to meet Vladimir Paperny, author of Architecture in the Age of Stalin, and to revive in a conversation with him our interest on the Russian avant-garde and the fate of modernist urbanism under and after Stalin. Here you find some of his answers regarding: the […]
- Ne Davimo Beograd NE DAVIMO BEOGRAD / BELGRADE ON WATER A huge development project funded by Arab Emirates capitals aims at transforming Belgrade’s face. It has been imposed as a project of national interest without any democratic process, erasing existing masterplan and laws. The activists of the campaign Ne Da(vi)mo Beograd organise the resistance against the silence of […]
- Yugoslavia in between In December 2015 we had the opportunity to record a conversation with the Serbian architecture historian Vladimir Kulic, whose writings on Yugoslav spatial production, and in particular the book “Modernism in Between”, have been an important source of inspiration for our researches on Belgrade. We publish here three long excerpts of this interview, in a […]
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- Be_Berlin music: Palais Schaumburg – Wir bauen eine neue Stadt
- The bunker This sequence was shot in an abandoned military bunker in Cuba. It was presented to us as destined to one of the infamous nuclear missiles of the 1962 crisis, although we have no elements to confirm this hypothesis. It was nevertheless a sinister and fascinating place, huge enough to contain a big launching pad. The […]
- Nothing is left Nothing is left. We imbued this long take traveling towards Alexanderplatz with the dark mood of Circuit Parallele’s track. It is a study for the in progress film project, an urban symphony following three characters meandering through the psychologic landscape of a relentlessly transforming Berlin… music__nothing is left_circuit parallele_spine 02
- Jean-Louis Cohen / Modernism and periphery November 2010, working on a spot for Moskonstruct we shortly interviewed via Skype the architecture historian Jean Louis Cohen, one of the major experts of modernism and the curator of the recent exhibition of Le Corbusier at MOMA. Few questions about Narkomfin are published in the incoming Dom Novogo Byta DVD. We plan an extensive interview […]
- Sprawling Detroit An aerial view of Detroit’s suburbs shot by our fellow Nicola “Teach” Guarneri in 2008. The mainly suburban development pattern of Detroit challenges our project with a quite different configuration from those encountered in most of the cities visited before. The typical relationship between center and periphery is reversed in this location by a core […]
- Times Square Blues Talking about centre / periphery relations, Times Square is probably the most central space in the world. It is at the centre of New York City, it is at the centre of the global spectacular entertainment industry, at the centre of the american economy and its cultural domination over the world. Times Square is a […]