Alex Roman The Third And The Seventh Book Pdf
Video screenshot, Courtesy of Alex Roman V.O.W N°9 ( Video Of the Week, 28 February - 6 March 2011) Credit should be given where it is due, and although millions of people have watched this video we believe that it's worth seeing it over and over again! In this case,, one of the international directors of, has done an extraordinary job of compositing architecture through computer graphics. A true work of art, where we are given the opportunity to experience architecture through the cinematographic lens; the visual fusion between the third and the seventh arts. Even though the order is much disputed, the Seven Arts are sculpture, painting, architecture, music, poetry, dance, and cinema. Roman's film is subsequently named after architecture and cinema, a combination that exerts to produce breathtaking results.
Alex Roman has revealed that he will shortly be releasing a book about his influential arch viz animation The Third and the Seventh.Though he has yet to release any specifics about content he says the book will contain “beautiful hires imagery artwork, philosophy and processes behind the short film”.
Video screenshot, Courtesy of Alex Roman is the outcome of a year-long sabbatical to generate a more pure commercial illustration of his favorite architectural creations, from around the world; the culmination of this work. Architectural creations include, the German Pavillion, The National Parliament Building of Bangladesh, Naoshima Benesse House Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Elogio del Horizonte, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Philips Exeter Academy Library, The Looking Glass Building, Casa Huete, L, Orioll Chamber Hall and Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Museum.
Explore this magnificent video, in full screen HD, to only realize the mind-boggling capacity of CG (Computer Graphics) and the implications it holds for the worlds of art and architecture.
Yes, Tanizaki was a very important influence regarding how I wanted to present materials. Most architects I know have this strange obsession with portraying their works as completely spotless and unblemished on the first day of inauguration and presentation.
In my view this is a complete mistake. In its first month, the building already starts showing traces of time. In the Eastern world this is conceived as something natural and part of architecture itself. Architecture (and the materials with which it is built) are, in some way or another, part of nature and vice versa. I think we should start to assume this in the West, to understand this fact and discover the beauty of passage of time. On the other hand, I was particularly interested in portraying nature in the most realistic way possible and in representing it as another character of the piece that lives, breathes and it’s there, present when time passes, the wind flows, light changes, etc. I find very interesting the communion and symbiosis that can exist between nature in its wild state and the constructions built by human beings. 
What did you feel when you saw the massive response from the public, after dedicating so much effort to your film? I didn’t expect it at all and my first reaction after a couple of months of publishing it was a feeling of vertigo. Vertigo and disorientation because I expected it to have a certain impact in the architectural field, but the strongest reaction came from the cinematographic and advertising audience. This gave my career a whole new direction and an infinite number of possibilities opened up at that moment.
Reactions occasionally come from where you least expect them, so in some way that was a real turning point in my professional career. Which elements from Spanish culture do you find in the short? There are without a doubt elements from my culture in the piece such as the work of Rafael Moneo (“Auditori en Barcelona”), a de-contextualized version of the “Elogio del Horizonte” by Chillida and Mies Van der Rohe’s “German Pavilion”, which is located in Barcelona (among others). In my opinion, though, art has no nationality and I have strived to portray it that way in my work. Which autobiographical elements do you see?