
Escaping Architecture
ARCHITECT'S ESCAPE
The challenge to the labyrinth in fouteen films (2010-2019).
The architects’ cinema tells how utopia and dystopia are not the same thing.
And how adventures are personal before being collective.
Cinema and Architecture
Architectures
PARASITE
Parks’ House (Namgoong Hyeonja)
Escape from the mazes and paradoxes of our mind.
Escape from war and styles.
Escape Rooms
Escape from the great architects who are not architects.
Escape from the ugly and the fake beautiful.
The book
La recita dell'architetto
by Giorgio Scianca and Steve Della Casa
When cinema and architecture meet, here it comes a book that shows the indissoluble link between buildings, the characters who populate them and the professionals who design them. A collection of 1523 films, divided into decades, from silent movie to today. 12 chapters with many stories, famous films but also new discoveries that international interlocutors have suggested to the authors. The first century of modern architect’s life in the history of cinematography narrated by Giorgio Scianca with the disenchanted irony of the cinephile and the architect’s encyclopedic precision.
The Book
La recita dell'architetto
di Giorgio Scianca e Steve Della Casa
Quando cinema e architettura si incontrano nasce un libro che mostra il legame indissolubile tra gli edifici, i personaggi che li popolano e i professionisti che li progettano. Una raccolta di 1523 film, divisa in decenni, dal muto ad oggi. 12 capitoli, con tantissime storie, film famosi ma anche nuove scoperte che gli interlocutori internazionali hanno suggerito agli autori. Il primo secolo di vita dell’architetto moderno nella storia della cinematografia raccontato da Giorgio Scianca con l’ironia disincantata del cinefilo e la precisione enciclopedica dell’architetto.
WHO'S WHO

“Architecture is too important to be left to architects.”
Giorgio Scianca

“A projection beyond the limits of fantasy and imagination. Anticipating reality.”
Silvia Viglietti

“Architecture and cinema are joyned by a common path that ‘draws stories’ and ‘tells architecture’ like a maze.”
Federico Babina

“In fiction we can read architecture and architects through alien, less critical eyes.”
Marcella Gabbiani

“Obsession, passion, jealousy and rage. Art is the food for madness.”
Francesco Agnese

“ArchiEscape for me is encounter, experimentation, sharing and emotion … the beginning of a long journey!”
Lara Tonello

“Dancing about architecture.”
Alessandra Comazzi

“Cinema and Architecture, two worlds that are part of the same intricate and mysterious universe to get lost and find yourself.”
Matteo Lo Valvo

“We all live surrounded by architecture, among the objects and spaces of our lives, and we hardly notice that.”
Barbara Andriano

“Over the years I have come across several stories focused on the figure of the architect.”
Davide Marcone

“Work, work, work. I prefer the sound of the Sea. “
Caterina Taricano

“The Museum is a public act for democratic consumption.” (Leonardo Mosso)
Vittorio Sclaverani

“If cinema is the art of the arts, then the architect becomes its protagonist.”