THERE WAS A TIME WHEN LONDON UNITED AROUND THE VISION OF A BETTER FUTURE. A GROUP OF YOUNG IDEALISTS WERE FUSING SCIENCE AND ART TO BUILD AN EGALITARIAN CITY. THIS DOCUMENTARY IS THEIR STORY.
Screening last night at Tate South Lambeth Library. Thanks to everyone who attended and made it such a great night. Particular thanks to Michael from the Library and Christina from Digital Tuesdays, as well as the Friends of the Tate South Lambeth Library for all their hard work making the event happen.
I am writing my dissertation this year on the the currently held belief that we as architects do not and cannot play an important role in today’s society; the role of the architect in architectural education and the working world is clearly becoming more and more inapt as a profession, we are merely designers, designing to clients’ briefs. I believe we do have a very important role in society through design and building and that through design “we can construct a society of equal citizens”.
Click here to see a video of Tom discussing Utopia London with Jord de Hollander at the wonderful AFFR festival. http://affr.nl/reviews/talkshow_2011_tom_cordell.html
Screening in NFT 1 in association with RIBA. There will be a QnA afterward with architect Kate Macintosh (Dawsons Heights), writer Owen Hatherley and director Tom Cordell. You can find out more and buy a ticket here:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/events/utopia_london
Shoreditch festival QnA
Shoreditch festival (l-r Niamh Walsh, Nina Pope, Tom Cordell)
The Floating Cinema from the other side of the canal
Floating Cinema- the amazing narrowboat converted to a mini-picture palace.
FLOATING CINEMA, SHOREDITCH: Here’s an audio recording of our post-screening discussion on 16th July 2011. Hosted by Nina Pope of Somewhere, with Utopia London Producer/Director Tom Cordell and Co-Producer Niamh Walsh.
The discussion talks about the ideas and creative choices behind the film, the choice of buildings, the politics of housing and social architecture, why flats in Trellick Tower cost more than in Balfron Tower, and whether beauty is a useful way to assess architecture.
