The architecture of Gwathmey Siegel : in search of clarity
2014
Computer Files, Websites
Charles Gwathmey has held steadfast to the spirit of modernism in his architecture from the day he successfully built his parents' home in 1967 based on the theories of Le Corbusier and American individualism. Avoiding the nostalgia of fashionable postmodernism throughout the eighties, Gwathmey partnered with Robert Siegel, and their firm continues to create innovative houses, corporate, institutional and university buildings across America. This documentary ranges from the deMenil villa on the dunes of Easthampton to their Guggenheim Museum addition. We hear from such leading architects as Philip Johnson and Peter Eisenman, and from filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who describes how a journey through a Gwathmey Siegel house creates the same sense of drama as a well-made movie. Producer: Alice Shure. Director: Murray Grigor.
Author:
Johnson, Peter, commentatorEisenman, Peter, 1932-, commentatorSpielberg, Steven, 1946-, commentatorShure, Alice, producerGrigor, Murray, film directorKanopy (Firm)
Imprint:
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014.
Collation:
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 45 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Notes:
Title from title frames.Originally produced by Checkerboard Film Foundation in 1995.
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
410798
Electronic access:
Access eFilm - A Kanopy streaming videohttps://www.kanopy.com/node/100322/external-image - Cover Image