“The architecture is like a scene from a movie where the story is the life, the script is dictated by the use of the building and where the actors are the residents. A labyrinth where all - characters, director, audience –are lost and found in the intensity of their emotions.”
Barcelona-based illustrator and architect Federico Babina has released a series of illustrations in which he represents different Hollywood directors as buildings. I find them interesting for a number of reasons, but the primary one is in how Babina has captured the style of each director, while maintaining a consistent look across all of the images.
While each of the illustrations represents the work of the relevant director, personally I find the most successful ones to be those which the auteur style of the entire body of work has been condensed into a single image, such as those of Tim Burton or Fritz Lang, which are recognizably representations of the director, but not of a specific film. In contrast, the Ridley Scott and Stanley Kubrick images are more representations of specific films (Blade Runner and 2001: A Space Odyssey respectively) than they are of the director's entire oeuvre, and as a result are less successful. That said, all of the illustrations in Babina's Archidirector series are very charming and look great. And they put me in mind somewhat of old movie posters, particularly those of Saul Bass, which is a great club to be in.
