Films make architecture come alive

quot;Nemausus I: Council Flats of the 80s8221;, made by Richard Copans in 96, dealt with the social housing scheme launched for the economically weaker section in the 80s. The second one, The Railway Station in the Museum8217;, was an interesting account of a strange transformation ever occured in the history of urban architecture. Olivier Horn8217;s piece on the Charlety Stadium in Paris wound up the inaugural screening. Shaped like a ship8217;s prow, the stadium was for Henri Gaudin, its architect, a symbol of both fullness and emptiness of architecture.

8220;I draw skeletons of animals to show that everything has a space and is related to each other.8221; And Horn8217;s camera succeeded in showing us the connection between that skeleton and the building8217;s basic structure which, like the flesh in the animals, was filled up by the various sections of the stadium.