Design and Architecture
Designing for Showtime in Sochi and Hollywood: The Olympic Park, Her and Gravity
Jerry Anderson talks about working with Russians on the design of Sochi Olympic Park. K.K. Barrett and Andy Nicholson discuss their production work, on Her and Gravity.
By Frances Anderton • • 29m ListenThe Winter Olympic Games are a showy statement of Russia’s regained power on the world stage. But the designers behind it are American. Jerry Anderson of Populous talks about the joys and challenges of working with Russians despite a tricky political history.
Two Oscar-nominated movies have had people talking about their visuals as much as their gripping performances: Her and Gravity. K.K. Barrett talks about imagining a future LA for Her; Andy Nicholson talks about the work that went into creating a “period piece” about space.
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4 storiesJerry Anderson and Populous, Sochi Architect
The Winter Olympic Games have been presented at President Putin’s showy statement of Russia’s regained power on the world stage. So it might come as a surprise to know that the designers behind it are American.
Read the story6 minK.K. Barrett: A Vision for Her
Her is the Spike Jonze story of love and seductive technology in near future Los Angeles. Its designer K.K. Barrett has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Production Design, along with set decorator Gene Serdena.
Read the story11 minK.K. Barrett: Is Her a Vision for LA?
One of the fascinating things about the movie Her is the reaction it’s gotten -- not only from movie goers who like the love story, but from those interested in the real future of LA. Gizmodo’s urbanism editor Alissa Walker tells DnA about the laughter that greeted Joaquin Phoenix’s character Theodore Twombly when he emerges from the…
Read the story4 minAndy Nicholson: Gravity
Gravity is Alfonso Cuarón’s story of lone survival (by Ryan Stone/Sandra Bullock) amidst disintegrating technology in space. Where space used to be depicted in movies as gleaming and futuristic, now it is filled with space junk and a disintegrating International Space Station.
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