The Competition: a documentary that exposes how 'starchitects' really work | Art and design. Sleepless nights, set-tos and screwed-up paper retrieved from the bin – all the stuff great architecture is made of. Right? For anyone with the slightest suspicion of the insidious, futile processes at work behind the glossy facades of the world's so-called 'starchitects', a new documentary by Spanish architect Angel Borrego Cubero makes for compulsive viewing. The Competition, which has its UK premiere at the Barbican tonight, follows the trials and tribulations of five stellar practices competing in a doomed bid to build a new national museum for Andorra, back in 2009.
As the global financial crisis hit rock-bottom, no job was too small for architects whose dreams of dotting Middle Eastern deserts with their snazzy signatures had been revealed as a hopeless mirage. A museum the size of a department store, for a tiny microstate nestled in the folds of the Pyrenees, was not something to be sniffed at. “Fuck, make some holes!”
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