Movies Architects should watch : Fountain Head

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I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build! - Howard Roark, Fountain head

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Fountain Head is by far one of the best movies that I have ever watched, transmitting the text from Ayn Rands, acclaimed novel of the same name a definite must watch for Architects.

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Inscribed within the initial passage of Ayn Rand’s objectivist novel, The Fountainhead, is the presentation of the ideal man incarnated as its architect hero Howard Roark who stands naked at the edge of a granite cliff. The novel portrayed its male protagonist as an architect, investing on the regnant cultural perception that the building auteur, like the structures they design, embody the very cult of manliness. Roark’s strong physique composed of “long, straight lines and angles, each curve broken into planes” (Rand 15), can be likened to a description of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater or a Corbusierian erection. Rand’s simulacrum of an architect as the archetypal man purports how culture re-codes the architectural language for the construction of masculinity. She sought building metaphors to articulate the theme of man-worship, while Howard Roark as creator sanctifies architectural doctrine. Rand’s uncompromising male character defends the principles of modern architecture with the arguments that equated buildings with masculine virtue, asserting that buildings have integrity just like men. The Fountainhead demonstrates how culture and society enlist architecture and architectural metaphors to construct, circulate, and maintain beliefs about gender. - Architecture and Sexuality:The Politics of Gendered Space Gerard Rey A. Lico

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The film starts off with a rush, but settles down to an easy pace once the preliminaries are done.
Howard roark is a character that will be etched on to anyone's mind for some time, after seeing the movie.

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Aba : Architecture captured on Sri Lankan celluloid

ABA, the movie directed by Jackson Anthony in 2008, is inarguably one of the best efforts realized on Sri lankan celluloid. It was also one of the films made in Sri Lanka where architecture had been at least remotely considered. The Art direction was done by Udeni Subodhi Kumara

There are three major settings which are architecturally significant.

1.) The Palace of Paduvasadeva
2.) Doramadalawa Village
3.) Brahmin Pandula’s abode

Even through The palace looks authentic at certain frames, the interior could have been made better. A little bit more effort would have obviously done miracles.

The Doramadalawa village gave a robin hood- meets- evoks sort of a feelein.

Brahmin pandulas abode is a typical ashram.

Movies Architects should watch

There are relatively few movies made about architects or their weird life styles. One such extremely entertaining movie is “In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones” made in 1989 in India.
Not being one of those typical Indian movies, it violates almost all of Indian movie rules. For starters the movie is completely in English and you don’t see the typical hero heroin scenarios, the songs, dances or the flower gardens.
The screen play was done by Arundathi Roy, the acclaimed author of the god of small things, she also brings to life the character of Radha in the film. The cast also include Shahrukh khan in one of his earlier works.
In a nut shell the film revolves around the eccentricities of an architecture student named Anand Grover who is popularly called annie and his ideas of social upliftment.
The summery of the film can be found here