How Westworld Uses Architecture [Season 1 Analysis]

In this video, architecture professor Stewart Hicks reacts to the architecture, sets, and spaces in the first season of HBO’s Westworld. From the lawless town of Sweetwater, to the tightly controlled offices of Delos, Westworld uses architecture precisely to establish its intricate worlds and settings. While the show is set within a theme park of the near future, books like Michael Sorkin’s Variation on a Theme Park argue that we are already treating the cities we live in — in real life — as theme parks. So, while Westworld shares a number of architectural strategies with places like Disneyland, it is also not too far away from places like Chicago, New York, or London. After all, it was the architect Charles Moore that declared Disneyland the most influential urban environment built after World War 2. Getting to the bottom of this rabbit hole includes lots of train rides and an introduction to Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, which helps explain what happens when worlds collide inside and outside Westworld.

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Видео How Westworld Uses Architecture [Season 1 Analysis] канала Stewart Hicks