Writer: Gem Barton
ADULT ARCHITECTURE CINEMA
Temporary Art intervention & Pop-Up cinema
Designed by The Decorators for designjunction at London Design Festival September 2012
LOCATION: The Sorting Office, 21-31 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1AP
‘Adult Architecture’ is a spatial and programmatic exaggeration of negotiations between body and space in film.
This year designjunction has commission London practice ‘The Decorators’ to design and erect a pop-up cinema space in the Sorting Office. Blueprint Magazine who has curated a series of seminars and talks running 19-23 Sept will host the temporary space.
However the space will also be used to screen films, ‘The Decorators’ principal Mariana Pestana says, “The building is a walk-through structural body of latex curtain inside which architectural films display a fetishisation of the human body. The design aesthetic borrows the language of the adult cinemas found on the dark streets and corners of the city.”
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Film Programme
Body Double [1984] by Brian de Palma
The Draughtman’s Contract [1982] by Peter Greenway
Married to the Eiffel Tower [2008] by Agnieszka Piotrowska
