Clients and architects in movies. Palazzo Barbarano (Vicenza) - 24 June 2011, 8.30 pm
In conjunction with the opening ceremony of the Eight Edition of the Dedalo Minosse Prize, architect Giorgio Scianca presents an extract of his project architects' BOOK.
Giorgio Scianca starts by considering the one hundred years that the cinema has lived - in terms of a global media - as a period overlapping the one hundred years of the figure of the modern architect. Through this lens he has collected and arranged in a database (starting from the 1912) photos, playbills, trailers and significant sequences belonging to 900 films produced all over the world and having the figure of the architect as a main character or a co-star. The cinematographic fiction wonderfully describes the complexity of the profession both in its popular and elitarian meaning. From the university days and lifestyle to the professional achievements (or failures), from the middle-age crisis to the senility acceptance this experiment is a journey throughought time and space of a profession narrated by the cinema with great generosity.