Movie about Rem Koolhaas coming to Wellington
Can't find the times on the Paramount web site, but according to Wotzon, on Fri 10 Apr 11.00am and Sun 12 Apr 1.00pm at the Paramount in Courtenay Place a documentary will screen about the former film director, author of Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan and architect of what to me embodies in one building the best and worst of auteur architecture: the Casa da Musica in Porto:
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A film that is overly self-conscious - full of flickery images, collages and Monty Python style animation.
However, the animations of some of the design ideas are tremendous. The insights into Koolhaas' thoughts behind that apparently quixotic / arbitrary / extravagant CCC TV tower have caused me to re-think my earlier thoughts on this building that seemed the architectural equivalent of the one-line joke or the welded chain letter box pole.
In fact it becomes possible to understand at some basic level the thinking behind OMA's starring role in "eyesore of the month" for March 2006:
"http://www.kunstler.com/eyesore_200603.jpg"
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