HRDD’s Marcel Merwin has been instrumental in curating this year’s Architecture Center Houston film festival: Revolutionary Architecture. The films in this year’s lineup focus on architecture, city, and space to spark a political discourse or change the development of the film’s political narrative. Buildings and space are inherently political, built by capitalism yet considered a universal right by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as adopted by the United Nations. Consistently, the largest issues of our time are shaped by the spaces we inhabit, whether by the space’s value as a social space or by its geographic significance, or by other political means. Just as revolution has opposing sides, design and space can be narrated from opposing views. This film program explores the paradigms of revolutionary space and architecture through a multitude of perspectives, with the hope to cultivate discussions of voice, authority, and subjectivity of revolution and change.
HRDD is proud to sponsor the series’ opening reception on Thursday, September 1 at MATCH. Learn more about all of the films and purchase tickets here!
The film festival starts Thursday, September 1 - Sunday, September 4, 2022