I am a Chilean designer, graduate teaching assistant, and researcher based in Tamaki Makaurau. I graduated from the University of Auckland’s School of Architecture & Planning, where I obtained my BAS and MArch (Prof) (Hons) degrees. Through critical and speculative analysis, my work often explores the relationship between Cinema and Architecture, focusing on the architectural, urban, historical, and contextual dissection of the narratives in moving images.
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ALPHAVILLE: The Foreshadowing of an Architectural Dystopia
Can the dichotomy between the narrative of a film and the representation of the built environments on screen, serve as the foundational basis for the foreshadowing of an architectural dystopia?
Is an architectural dystopia a rendering of a fictional world we society seeks to avoid, or rather the reality of our present?
These questions formed the basis of my thesis’ analysis on the topics of Modernist Architecture, Cinema and Dystopia.
ALPHAVILLE: The Foreshadowing of an Architectural Dystopia presents an ambivalent speculation on the condition of dystopia in the Modernist architectural context of Jean-Luc Godard’s seminal 1965 film Alphaville. In this proposal, every architectural element visible on screen, becomes realised through architectural drawings. The critique of modernist architecture in the context of Alphaville is manifested in this proposal through the architectural and spatial realisation of a moving image.
This thesis at its core, aspires to bridge architectural history and theory with that of cinema, in advocating for a discourse that reconsiders the manifestation of globalisation during the emergence of a Utopian dream, only to inevitably decline in its pursuit. Subsequently, this thesis implies that the condition of Modern architecture in the context of Alphaville serves as the catalyst for the foreshadowing of an architectural dystopia.
Is an architectural dystopia a rendering of a fictional world we society seeks to avoid, or rather the reality of our present?
These questions formed the basis of my thesis’ analysis on the topics of Modernist Architecture, Cinema and Dystopia.
ALPHAVILLE: The Foreshadowing of an Architectural Dystopia presents an ambivalent speculation on the condition of dystopia in the Modernist architectural context of Jean-Luc Godard’s seminal 1965 film Alphaville. In this proposal, every architectural element visible on screen, becomes realised through architectural drawings. The critique of modernist architecture in the context of Alphaville is manifested in this proposal through the architectural and spatial realisation of a moving image.
This thesis at its core, aspires to bridge architectural history and theory with that of cinema, in advocating for a discourse that reconsiders the manifestation of globalisation during the emergence of a Utopian dream, only to inevitably decline in its pursuit. Subsequently, this thesis implies that the condition of Modern architecture in the context of Alphaville serves as the catalyst for the foreshadowing of an architectural dystopia.
Year of Completition
2020
Type
Thesis Project
Role
Masters research
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