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The Avatar of Architecture

Architecture News - Feb 12, 2010 - 11:54   9930 views

Camerons message is unequivocal human attitudes towards nature - from their desire to mine the ridiculously named unobtainium on Pandora, to their retreat into fortresses and their destruction of the great tree - are bad. Living in and with the nature is good. What is remarkable is that the directore gives us this message not just through the rather predictable story, but also through his spatial inventions. Watch Avatar 3D with the sound off and you still see the death of buildings. Buildings are bad - or, rather, irrelevant. Our choice is between swiping information and swinging from trees. Rapacious technology or revolution: architecture can be avoided
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