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Rem Koolhaas, Mythologized on the Big Screen

[Originally published in Azure Magazine Nov. / Dec. 2016] Filmed, produced, directed and edited by Tomas Koolhaas over the course of … More

Azure, film, globalization, OMA, REM documentary, Rem Koolhaas, Tomas Koolhaas

Three Roles Played by Architecture in Three Recent Films

[Originally published in O magazine] Buildings are as ubiquitous in films as they are in our lives. Even in the most … More

Aloys film, architecture, film, High Rise film, Koolhaas, O Magazine, REM documentary

Dizzying Inequality

Ben Wheatley’s film High Rise, a multi-story about decadence and class war in a Brutalist housing estate in London, brought plenty … More

Ábalos & Herreros, Ben Wheatley, film, hierarchy, highrise, housing, inequality, Jaques Tati, social class

Generic No More: Toronto Modernism in Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Enemy’

Canadian cities such as Toronto or Vancouver are often used by Hollywood to represent either generic modern cities that could … More

Brutalism, Denis Villeneuve, film, Modernism, Toronto

Triumph of the Shell

  [originally published in Mark Magazine #26]   In cinema, there is a common type of architectural scene: a building … More

building envelope, film, Lleida, Mark Magazine, Mecanoo, politics, small town

Everyday Camouflage in “The Visitor”

The story told by Tom McCarthy in his highly commendable film The Visitor, which deals, among other things, with the … More

architecture, camouflage, film, popular culture, prison, urbanism

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Criticalista collects Rafael Gomez-Moriana's writings on architecture and the built environment. All photographs by the author unless indicated otherwise.

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