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Tabletop Architecture Homages

By Rain Noe - December 20, 2011

in Architecture

Something like Stick Figure Theater for architecture geeks, Luis Urculo's short film Covers depicts recreations of iconic structures using common domestic items. The New Museum, Falling Water, the Farnsworth House and more all get the treatment.

And of course, what would an architecture video be without the attendant architecture-speak seemingly designed to be impenetrable to laypeople:

Covers is an investigation about architecture as a consumption object or souvenir and its relation with the domestic non-specialized language of everyday things. The work is a reconstruction and review of iconic monumental pieces of architecture whose image is built by objects to change the perception of this universal masterworks....

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