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From Colin Firth’s existential crisis in John Lautner’s 1949 Schaffer Residence (in Tom Ford's A Single Man), to investigations of a family in Ang Lee's The Ice Storm slowly falling into chaos in New Canaan – home of the Harvard Five’s domestic modernist experiments – the perceived sterility of the modern movement has frequently been used by the movies as an aesthetic shorthand for tragic protagonists.⁣⁣

Candide No. 10: ⁣ Journal for Architectural Knowledge⁣ Available at www.draw-down.com⁣ ⁣ Designed by Benjamin Critton. The first in a two-part collection of results from the conference “Architecture as Dispute,” offering fascinating perspectives from controversial production histories. Isabelle Doucet studies how social implications through contestation became articulated during the early 1970s in the “outreach project” of students of the Architectural Associations when they embarked on a tour across the United Kingdom on a converted bus with the aim to set up a dialogue between students and the world “out there.” Graham Owen examines the controversies of the global practice of Zaha Hadid Architects, Sabine Horlitz revisits the case of Pruitt-Igoe as a conflict-ridden history of collective actions of its residents, Adam Page analyzes the competing appropriations of the Divis Flats apartment complex in Belfast during the Northern Ireland conflict, and Camillo Boano discusses his thinking about contested urbanisms (“Disruptive Design: On Design Gestures, Breathing, and Not-Doing”).⁣ ⁣ #Candide #Architectural #BenjaminCritton⁣ ⁣ (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxkC-ZJHBDg/?igshid=4jbdlpb6g7me

Last Chance! Out of Print! — Evil People in Modernist Homes in Popular Films / Available at draw-down.myshopify.com / Designed by Benjamin Critton. Offers a serious but lighthearted investigation of the representation of modernist architecture in popular film, reflecting on the convention of associating evil characters and events with modern buildings, and also, more generally, on the relation between cinema and architecture. A series of film stills, quotes and accompanying texts point to examples in The Damned Don't Cry (1950), #Diamonds are Forever (1971), #BladeRunner (1982), Body Double (1984), Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), L.A. Confidential (1997), The #BigLebowski (1998), and #Twilight (2008). #graphicdesign #typography #architecture #zine #archizine #drawdownbooks #modernism #BenjaminCritton #film #popular #evil #villian #design (at Palm Springs, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnGmh-vBzDo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7tz9wgg0c2j5

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