Bourley Boulle: The Belly Of An Architect

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DECONSTRUCTION: THE DYNAMIC COMPLEXITY DILEMMA

“ ‘The Belly of an Architect’ is like a jewel with a huge flaw, it is simultaneously dazzles and disappoints the audience.” (Michael Wilmington,1990). The movie critic states that the producer Greenaway yet again creates a comic-erotic parables about the artist's nightmare, who struggles to produce or create something timeless. In this case the Chicago star architect, Stourley Kracklite is the representative artist that struggles to understand the visionary French architect, Etienne-Louis Boullee. Boulle,a 18th-Century visionary architect that designed extravagant buildings and tombs, for the city he never lived to see: Rome. Kracklite become so immersed in Boullee’s exhibition that his social and physical body starts to deteriorate, similar to Boullee’s work being lost in the 20th century.
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Controlled chaos, is the production of the inevitable destruction of war or the calamity of an inadequate political regime. Yet the element of control can be rendered as an aimless ruin rather than an form of architecture. Still even with this control, there is still a void in the term revolution. The complete process of revolution isn’t only deconstruction, but is the process of deconstructing and reassembling for an endless opportunity for interpretation and reevaluation. Viewing the essence of humanity as being violent by nature , Bernard Tschumi believes architecture is a reflection of that

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