Locations, locations - RIBA celebrates architecture in film
The neo-fascistic War Room in Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964) Photograph: Ronald Grant ArchiveExpressionist flights of stairs, vertiginous camera angles and gloriously improbable Hollywood Gothic dominate Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941) Photograph: RIBAVictorian back-to-backs and Edwardian tenements in Of Time and the City (2008), Terence Davies's idiosyncratic study of Liverpool Photograph: RIBA
A still from Tarkovsky's Nostalgia (1983), shot in TuscanyPhotograph: Ronald Grant ArchiveA still from Sydney Pollack's Sketches of Frank Gehry (2005) – a homage to that most filmic of modern architectsPhotograph: RIBARaymond Massey and Gary Cooper in the film Fountainhead (1949), with its macho modernist office blocksPhotograph: RIBAGary Cooper muses on Corbusian principlesPhotograph: RIBAA still from Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927), which melds a variety of architectural styles into an unholy vision of the futurePhotograph: BFIA still from Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982), an heir to Metropolis in its nightmarish depiction of 21st-century Los Angeles Photograph: Ronald Grant ArchiveA design for a futuristic street scene from Blade Runner – something that can't have been far from the pen of many a mid-century architectPhotograph: Allstar/Cinetext/WARNER BROS
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