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The Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010, curated by Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima, co-founder of Tokyo-based practice SANAA, included a remarkable twenty-four-minute 3D film by the German director Wim Wenders depicting the practice’s Rolex Learning Centre in Switzerland. Entitled If Buildings Could Talk, the film ran in a continuous loop, without a tangible beginning or end, much like the building itself. Invited by SANAA to develop the film, Wenders found himself confronted with a new type of space that he had no prior experience of, and no vocabulary to describe: ‘The Rolex Learning Centre’, said Wenders during a talk given at the Biennale, ‘is more landscape than building.’
Author(s): Yang J, Hale J, Blackman T
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: arq: Architectural Research Quarterly
Year: 2021
Volume: 25
Issue: 1
Pages: 83-92
Print publication date: 01/03/2021
Online publication date: 27/07/2021
Acceptance date: 07/04/2021
Date deposited: 25/06/2022
ISSN (print): 1359-1355
ISSN (electronic): 1474-0516
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1359135521000129
DOI: 10.1017/S1359135521000129
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