Shooting Begins on 3D Zumthor Film
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| Still from Wim Wenders' The Secrets of Places |
The project follows Wenders documentaries on Anselm Kiefer and Pina Bausch, also in 3D.
Wenders told Screen Daily that Zumthor "is the architect’s architect. If you ever ask one of the great ones who would you be in another life, the answer is inevitable: I would love to be Peter Zumthor. It is also in 3D because architecture needs it."
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I'm less annoyed by what Govan has done, partly because I've seen how astounding a museum like the Louvre is and also what a huge new museum in Egypt is going to be like.
If the Geffen Galleries end up being a big success, that will make up for all the decades of William Pereira's "tract" house. But not made easier by a lack of transparency over the past several years about LACMA's budget and square footage, and technical weaknesses like no conservation lab or on-site staff offices. So now it's wait and see.
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> If you do a building like...LACMA, now,
> as Michael Govan says, the last handmade
> big building in the US. We’ll never have
> something like this again, because the
> normal process is to build buildings like
> a car....There’s a certain commercial
> coldness about big American or
> Japanese buildings, or European
> buildings in Frankfurt...
> There are great people who are
> building the formwork in LA. They
> understood and were so happy to
> do this work—really skilled. They
> had a high-level meeting to show
> me a mistake. They showed me
> the concrete over a door where it
> was all fucked up. They were able
> to mend it, but I said, “Listen,
> congratulations for your work. It’s
> great work, but shit happens.
> You are building a sculpture of
> concrete. Maybe you don’t know
> this, but sculptures are never
> mended.”
> All these workers are building [LACMA].
> They love it, they are so happy. They
> invited me to a barbecue to celebrate
> my birthday as an expression of their
> gratitude. You could feel that they like
> what they are doing—to be part of
> something historic. All of us from the
> architecture and construction trades
> are working together.
> In about a year, one end will open.
> Some curators were critical of the
> spatial concept of the layout of the
> museum. But now since they can
> go and see the space for the first
> time, they start to like it. And they
> see the beauty of the handmade
> concrete body of the building—so
> I am told. But without Michael
> Govan, I couldn’t have arrived at
> this point...