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"Why Architecture Needs Cinema: The Case for diller scofidio renfro"
Focusing on public space projects such as Facsimile and Jump Cuts by architects Diller Scofidio Renfro, UC Irvine Film and Media Studies Professor Edward Dimendberg will argue that a crucial task for contemporary culture is the invention of new forms of windows—hybrids of traditional architecture and media art—adequate to contemporary technology and experiences of time and space. Award-winning architecture firm Diller Scofidio Renfro is particularly well known for their interdisciplinary approach to architecture. Their influence stems as much, if not more, from their contributions to the theory and criticism of architecture as from their built works. Locally they have been selected to design the new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and created the exhibition design for How Wine Became Modern, which opens on November 20 at SFMoMA. Dimendberg is author of Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity (2004) and many essays on the relation of mass media to the built environment. His book Diller Scofidio Renfro: Architecture After Images is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.
