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Cecil Balmond Visionary Engineer and Architect

Have You Watched? • Documentary, Special Interest, 01-Jan-2009

Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect is a compelling documentation of a unique thinker and practitioner at the height of his architectural career. Through his conversation with architecture theorist and critic, Sanford Kwinter, Balmond reveals his vision and talent while the two tour his retrospective exhibition at the Graham Foundation in Chicago. Since the early 1980s Balmond has collaborated with many of today's important contemporary architects such as Toyo Ito, Rem Koolhaas and Daniel Libeskind. With his astounding aesthetic algorithms, Balmond has introduced innovative structural concepts that have resulted in some of the most challenging buildings in the canon of contemporary architecture.

Tags
Maison a Bordeaux (1998), Seattle Central Library (2004), Casa da Musica (2005), CCTV Tower (Beijing 2009), Hedge (installation), Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (2002), Coimbra Footbridge (Portugal 2006), Twist (London 2004), Ranchi Cricket Stadium (India 2008), Modern architecture, engineering, design, fluidity, structure, material, orginization, language, glass, concrete, steel, geometry, contemporary form, light, setting, nature, landscape, juxtaposition, aesthetic, algorithm, intervals, the space between, Leonardo da Vinci, collaboration, Toyo Ito, mirror, pattern
Cast
Cecil Balmond Self
Sarah Herda Self
Sandford Kwinter Self
Crew
Michael Blackwood director
Michael Blackwood producer
Rima Yamazaki producer

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