Madrid-based architect Angel Borrego Cubero of Office for Strategic Spaces (OSS) has directed and produced the first documentary focused on the tense process that often characterizes an architectural competition. Appropriately titled The Competition, the film captures a fascinating account on how five world renowned architects – Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry, Dominique Perrault, Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster – “toil, struggle and strategize to beat the competition.” The premise is based on a nearly forgotten, 2008 competition for a new National Museum of Art of Andorra, a small Pyrenees country nestled between Spain and France, which has yet to be realized.
The Competition is expected to debut in late 2013. Updates will be available on OSS’s website and facebook.
Video Credits:
Production by: Office for Strategic Spaces (OSS)
Director and Producer: Angel Borrego Cubero
Technical Director and Editor: Simon Lund
Assistants to Edition: Gaël Urzáiz, Cristina Hortigüela
Funding and Collaborations: Fundación Arte y Derecho, Govern d’Andorra, Lord Culture, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Dominique Perrault Architecture, Zaha Hadid Architects, Gehry Partners
“no you fool I don’t prefer “large holes” I prefer my employee to stop mimicking a style and to start thinking for themselves…pull your head out.” a Jean Nouvel translation.
can’t wait for the movie
Dear Archdaily editors, thank you for the post! We are planning a couple of test screenings New York and Boston, at the beginning of March. If we make it, we will let know details about it.
Hi Simona! Yes – please contact us at http://www.archdaily.com/contact/ and let us know! Thanks.
I would love to attend a screening, I’m in NY! Please keep us all in the loop, film looks fantastic.
Hi Michael,
As Archdaily already announced, “The Competition” will be test screened on the 4th of March at 7PM, in New York (Instituto Cervantes, 211 East 49th Street, Manhattan) and on the 7th of March at 3 PM, at Harvard (Graduate School of Design, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy St, Cambridge). Both screenings are open, free entrance but subject to the venue’s capacity and on one’s own risk :-)
We in Berkeley, California would love to know when you will be screening on the West Coast! It looks very very good!
sean
Reminds me of the very polished PBS NOVA documentary of the Chicago Library competition in the mid-nineties…Post-Modernism won out then…can’t wait to see who wins this time. Glad to see you captured the more “raw” side of it.