Animated Architecure 1 & 2 plus Bonus: Baumeister by Claudia Larcher

A new visual culture has come to dominate the presentation of architecture in recent years: animated digital visualization is now the tool of choice to render both actual building projects and futuristic architectural visions.

When architectural designs are shown in an exhibition context today, often videos have to carry the issue. The video visualizations incorporate elements of music, graphics and text within a realization of architectural vision. The term “vision” can be taken quite literally here, since this technique allows the user to envisage not only commissioned architecture, but also free architectural design and experimental work.

These digital video visions share the fact that they access media (video, music, graphics) or media genres (music video, games) that are not traditionally connected to architecture, furthermore, they develop a specific language designed to present architectural detail within a short film, going beyond simple videos on architecture as a means of communication. The crucial point here is that the medium has taken on a life of its own: video is increasingly used as a platform for freely experimental fictions.

The selected films and videos are made by architects but not exclusively as artists and designers are also dealing with architectonical questions in architecture shorts.

Program

Bonus: Claudia Larcher, Baumeister, 2012, Austria (9min30sec)

Animated Architecture 1 (ca. 1h):
Zeitguised, Peripetics, 2008, Germany

Andreas Martini, Crest, 2008, Germany
Limmat, District 2: Edge 1, 2006, Canada

Kaspar Astrup Schröder, My Playground (Trailer), 2009, Denmark

Johannes Guerreiro, Twisted Reality, 2008, Germany

Jan Schönwiesner, Visual Music, 2008, Germany
David Mozny, Rahova, 2009, CZ

Sergej Hein, Berlin Block Tetris, 2009, Germany

Julio Soto, Invisible Cities, 2003, Spain/US
Mirza & Butler, The Space between, 2005, GB

Quayola, Architectural Density, 2006, GB
Semiconductor, Matter in Motion, 2008, GB

Animated Architecture 2 (ca. 1h):

jutojo & Philipp Sollmann, Efdemin – There Will Be Singing (Chicago), 2010, Germany

Jörn Staeger, Urban Poems, 2004, Germany
Pia Maria Martin, XI, 2008, Germany

Dagmar Keller / Martin Wittwer, Alles wird gut, 2006, Germany

Keiichi Matsuda, The Technocrat Retrofit of London, 2009, GB

Sara Muzio, Earthbound, 2010, GB

Juryoku, The Poetry Of The Suburbs, 2004, Japan
Rob Carter, Metropolis, 2008, US
Bruno Barthas, architecture, 2008, France
Serene Teh, Parkour Motion Reel, 2009, SG


Curated by Cornelia and Holger Lund/fluctuating images in collaboration with the Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart

The screening Architektur-Visionen # 5/Animated Architecture is part of the program Architektur-Visionen # 1-6,curated Janina Kriszio, Cornelia Lund and Vanessa Weber//dokART as part of the Hamburger Architektur Sommer 2015 // www.architektursommer.de

Information on the complete program of Architektur-Visionen: 
http://dokart.medienkulturforschung.net // http://www.facebook.com/dok.ART.kino

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