Rem Koolhaas As Scriptwriter - Oma Architecture Script for West Berlin

This book is the first survey of a new field in architecture theory: script writing. Architecture as Script Writing explores the intersection of architecture, film, and text using the example of the working method of scriptwriter, Rem Koolhaas, and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).

List of contents

List of figures
Introduction
1. Script-Conceptual framework
2. Between film and architecture
3. West Berlin-the Berlin Wall
4. The archipelago
5. Friedrichstrasse and Checkpoint Charlie
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix
Index

About the author

Helena Huber-Doudová is curator of the Architecture Collection of the National Gallery Prague (NGP), Czech Republic. She is studying for her PhD in Art History at the University of Zurich. She is co-lead researcher of the Czech Science Foundation research on Women in Architecture (2021-2023).

Summary

This book is the first survey of a new field in architecture theory: script writing. Architecture as Script Writing explores the intersection of architecture, film, and text using the example of the working method of scriptwriter, Rem Koolhaas, and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).

Product details

• Authors: Helena Huber-Doudova, Helena Huber-Doudová
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2023
• EAN: 9781032431130
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3243113-0
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Routledge Research in Architecture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; History, Media Studies, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, PERFORMING ARTS / Screenplays, History of Architecture, Urban communities, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Film Scripts & Screenplays, Film scripts and screenplays, Theory of architecture