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De Loeiende Koe

Starttijd

26-03-2017 16:00

Eindtijd

26-03-2017 18:00

Locatie

Technicum, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000 Gent,

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Beschrijving

JOKERWEEK PRESENTS: THE COMPETITION

Review:

\"For anyone with the slightest suspicion of the insidious, futile processes at work behind the
glossy facades of the world's so-called'starchitects', a new documentary by Spanish
architect Angel Borrego Cubero makes for compulsive viewing”
The Guardian, Oliver Wainwright

Synopsis:

A documentary movie constructed as an almost uncomfortable but intensely fascinating account
of how some of the best architects in the world, design giants like Jean Nouvel or Frank Gehry,
toil, struggle and strategize to beat the competition. While nearly as old as the profession itself,
architectural competitions became a social, political and cultural phenomenon of the post-
Guggenheim Bilbao museums and real estate bubbles of the recent past. Taking place at the
dramatic moment in which the bubble became a crisis, this is the first competition to be
documented in excruciatingly raw detail.
Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry, Dominique Perrault, Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster are selected to
participate in the design of the future National Museum of Art of Andorra, a first in the Pyrenees
small country. Norman Foster drops out of the competition after a change in the rules that allow
the documentary to happen. Three months of design work go into the making of the different
proposals, while, behind doors, a power struggle between the different architects and the client
has a profound impact on the level of transparency granted by each office to the resident
documentary crew, and which has a definite influence in the material shown in the film.