{"id":2255,"date":"2011-03-01T13:23:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T13:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2018-10-10T14:18:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T18:18:37","slug":"d-c-environmental-film-festival-features-urbanism-and-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2011\/03\/d-c-environmental-film-festival-features-urbanism-and-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"D.C. Environmental Film Festival Features Urbanism and Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">This year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org\/\">film fes<\/a>t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org\/\">ival <\/a>takes a broad view of the enivronment, covering not only the natural environment, but the built environment as well.<\/p>\n<p>Films on Samuel Mockbee&#8217;s Rural Studio, the green contextual architecture of Rick Joy and Kieran Timberlake, and the impact of car-based development on the city of Istanbul explore individual and collective design decisions&#8211;some more considered than others.<\/p>\n<p>Also, someone has finally made a film about my favorite historian of all time&#8211;Vincent Scully.\u00a0He is certainly a great lecturer whose words, images, and ideas create an inspiring flow in his audience. His sense of humor is charming; he apologized to an\u00a0audience of architects for\u00a0showing a picture in which his wife had marched into the frame and posed&#8211;this kind of kodak sentimentalism is frowned on in design circles. And his energy is contagious. I once saw him\u00a0nearly clotheslined by his mic cord as he charged across the stage to make a point. See this movie!<\/p>\n<p>Another great thing about the festival is that many of the films are free and shown in venues you may\u00a0 not otherwise get a chance to see&#8211;The Bolivian Hall at the Embassy of Venezuela, The World Bank, the Royal Netherlands Embassy, or the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Get your organic popcorn on and check out these films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">This year&#8217;s film festival takes a broad view of the enivronment, covering not only the natural environment, but the built environment as well.<\/p>\n<p>Films on Samuel Mockbee&#8217;s Rural Studio, the green contextual architecture of Rick Joy and Kieran Timberlake, and the impact of car-based development on the city of Istanbul explore individual and collective design decisions&#8211;some more considered than others.<\/p>\n<p>Also, someone has finally made a film about my favorite historian of all time&#8211;Vincent Scully.\u00a0He is certainly a great lecturer whose words, images, and ideas create an inspiring flow in his audience. His sense of humor is charming; he apologized to an\u00a0audience of architects for\u00a0showing a picture in which his wife had marched into the frame and posed&#8211;this kind &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2011\/03\/d-c-environmental-film-festival-features-urbanism-and-architecture\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[221,225,224,223,222],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-planning","tag-environmental-film-festival","tag-green-design","tag-istanbul","tag-vincent-scully","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5310,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions\/5310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}