Architect reacts to 5 famous Sci-Fi movies

00:00 Intro
00:23 Ex Machina
4:57 Downsizing
10:47 BLAME!
14:25 Elysium
17:49 Inception

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[NJP]

She may be an architect, but her attention to film techniques and themes clearly shows her passion for the medium as well

[marcusandreopoulos]

I randomly had this video come on while I was in another room, but just the audio of this made me stop what I was doing and watch the entire video. Your passion for the architecture and the concepts of the movies is incredible to me. Even to the details of how perfect your dialect and enunciation made me really enjoy this video and hearing you share your thoughts about everything. Subscribed without question so I can watch more of your intellect. You're an amazing human and I thank you for sharing that with people!! (Mostly me, but clearly others enjoy it as well)

[phillipsanchez]

Of all the videos to pop up in my feed randomly in the last couple of years, I have to say that this video is the most timely and relevant for me as a teacher. I have zero experience with architecture in any professional capacity, but I enjoyed each of the films you reviewed in this video. More importantly than that, your analysis of these films within the context of design and our impact on the world around us started to hit home with me in other ways. As a teacher of quite a few years, I have always struggled with how to design the layout of my classroom: where desks go, how to use wall and ceiling spaces, etc. As you note for Ex Machina, my classroom often feels like the bottom floor of the enclosure because the tools I have at my disposal are limiting: same square desks, same whiteboard, same projector screen, etc. What I have failed to see up until I watched your video, is that I am limiting myself in classroom design thinking because I am only using the visual 2D world when I draw up plans. This concept of haptic experiences is a real eye opener for me because though the limitations I have for the classroom space I have remain the same, I can at least approach the puzzle with a more circumspect mindset. I need to begin educating myself on haptic design so that when I make order requests for my classroom next year I might be able to articulate a vision that actually gets me what I need and my students need. Thank you!

[lapasty]

Blame! Is one of the greatest SF manga, not only for the architecture, but also about how well computer systems are merged into the story.

[Egg-mrnp]

Inception makes an analogy with architecture elsewhere when they say one dreamer builds the space and another populates it. The architect designs the space but the users and residents fill it with life. There is then a tension of the two where one can mess up the plans of the other, or one can help the other.

[Lalalovelies]

I hope this becomes a series for other genres of film - period, animation etc!

[jerickson_abuel]

I have a hunch that you liked Downsizing because tiny people living in your scale model projects is a fun thought hahaha

[-droid-j-]

Wasn't ready to see blame! in there. Thank you very much for talking about it. I think not enough people talk about the visual language of that series. Very insightful!

[dfwherbie]

When you were going over ex machina, it reminded me of this old lady I know who owns a compound on the island of Crete. She built her homes integrating it with nature. Many of the interior walls are actually structures from the mountains. Basically, there’s these gorgeous mountains that lead down a valley, facing the water. And she built the homes down that path, on the downward slope of the mountains. It’s gorgeous and very interesting. All self-sustainable too

[chatroom]

Im so pleased you talked about "BLAME!". So many interesting worlds

[danieledui]

I would spend hours and hours listening an architect like you talk about BLAME!. I think the use of space in that manga is outstanding.

[salva]

Architecture in some Anime movies is really interesting as well. Specially the way its drawn

[samcan]

You asked for suggestions: Metropolis (1927) and Blade Runner (1982) come to mind. In both these movies the city and its buildings and living spaces play an important, overwhelming role, I find. Good work. I enjoy your channel.

[vrixphillips]

the architecture of the silent film Metropolis is pretty wild, and it was the most expensive film of its time, not to mention a HUGE inspiration to so many movies that would come after it.

[JeffreyBue_imtxsmoke]

I just discovered this channel yesterday and I really like your work. You have a very "down to earth" way of describing things. Vids are very professional and enlightening. Definitely worth the sub.

[tarredion]

i love the style of Blame! because it reminds me a lot of this very specific sci fi style, that is less rounded and soft, more harsh and foreboding

it has a similar vibe to simon stålenhag, although he does mostly objects and vehicles with some touches of architecture

[paragraph_designs]

This was great! Imo, the feelings of spaces in Dune really catch that intersection of ancient architecture and futurism. Same with Blade Runner 2049.

[ltlbuddha]

A concern about modular building is the increase of the division between the have and the have nots. I see a formalisation of the favela, in terms of residence and the societal connection between the increasingly disparate classes becoming even more tenuous.

[dianausse]

I just discovered your channel thanks to this video and I absolutely loved it, thank you for your rich explanations and sharing your experience!

[sadxaaaa]

i encountered BLAME years ago, and recently cannot seem to remember what the anime/manga was at all. i only remembered the visceral expereince i had, and the world building was described to my freinds rather characters itself. and so im finally glad to find the name of it again, and truly understand why i felt the way i did! thanks omg