Sci-Fi Architecture
Monday November 24, 2008
Don't you just love looking at buildings in sci-fi movies? Take, for example, the strangely familiar Star Wars architecture from the early films by George Lucas. It turned out that those alien structures were inspired by real places here on earth. And then there are the real life buildings that end up in movie sets, like the Empire State Building in King Kong or Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis-Brown House in Blade Runner. In a recent issue of Building Design, writer Saul Metzstein looks at the ways filmmakers use architecture to portray the future. It seems that real buildings are more visionary than make-believe movie sets.
Article: Framing the future - film and architecture
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Photo: The Ennis-Brown House by Frank Lloyd Wright
© Mary Ann Sullivan, Digital Imaging Project
Comments
I majored in architecture years ago. A few of the treats I got out of it comes from watching flicks. I think New York has been made over to often. Remenber Robo Cop’s setting? was it in Deroit?
It’s one of my favorite things to do–pick out places I have seen before in movies. Thanks for the great article.
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