It’s not easy to think of an architectural project that would aim to create a dystopia. However, an architectural design might be inspired by a desire to escape from a dystopia into a different world.
When such a "different world" is created, it naturally becomes a reflection on the dystopian environment it critiques. Strange, illogical, neurotic spaces may emerge—spaces focused on one emotion, one feature of the world that has inspired them.
The lecture will look at John Hejduk’s bedroom scenes; Peter Eisenman’s post-structuralist montage; man and artificial intelligence in the works of Cedric Price and the "shorts" of Aldo van Eyc.
future? Which mediums accumulate visions of the future today and who creates those visions? Does "cinetecture" have a future, even if it has passed its golden age?
