Reconversion

With Reconversão Reconversion Thom Andersen opens another fascinating chapter of his ongoing investigation of architectural landscapes their filmic representation and their relation to history by focusing on 17 buildings and projects by the oftencontroversial Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Mourawinner of the 2011 Pritzker Prize Echoing Dziga Vertovs concepts and Eadweard Muybridges techniques shooting only one or two frames per second Andersen masterfully brings forward what makes Souto de Moura an original the incorporation of the passing of time into architectural designs positing them within a history fraught with class struggle and societal changes in a continuum with ruinsfrom which they may originate and to which they will returnand with naturewhich they frame and by which they are framed