Pull out your critic's notebook and head for New York City. The Architecture and Design Film Festival starts today, October 18, and runs through Sunday, October 21. Like last April's Celluloid Architecture in Chicago, a couple dozen movies will be viewed, chewed, and ballyhooed for four days. The highlight of the festival may be one of these 2012 films:
- Coast Modern, an exploration of West Coast Modernism by filmmakers Gavin Froome and Mike Bernard
- Charles Renfro will be on hand to discuss his partnership in Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line directed by Muffie Dunn and Tom Piper
- Jake Gorst's Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island explores what our Readers have been talking about for years: Are Mid-Century Buildings Historic?
- Design & Thinking (Mu-Ming Tsai) and From Nothing, Something (Tim Cawley) explore the process of creativity in architecture and design
If you don't like film, at least try to catch architectural historian Jane C. Loeffler on a Sunday afternoon panel discussion about embassy buildings. She's the author of a terrific book, The Architecture of Diplomacy: Building America's Embassies (1998, 2010) and will, no doubt, add to the current conversation about embassy safety.
Learn more from the ADFF Official Website.
Press photo from the film Coast Modern, 2012, by Gavin Froome and Mike Bernard © Twofold Films
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