ruminations about architecture and design

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

thoughts on the hunger games

The movie was well put together and disturbingly familiar. Capitol City looked like it was built from scratch with GGI and featured some rather conservative architecture. I wonder if it is a an example of the look Leon Krier advocates as an alternative to modernism?

Everything was neat, clean, new and vaguely Albert Speer-like. It suited the film well, but I got the sense that there was an implied critique of New Urbanism. I think they were trying to reference ancient Rome, but with a touch of the New York themed Las Vegas resort casino.

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