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Best of Both Worlds: Lamenting Our Path to the Future
Author(s) -
Petermann Stephan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2075
Subject(s) - film director , documentary film , ambivalence , real estate , estate , period (music) , sociology , history , economic history , political science , management , art history , art , law , aesthetics , movie theater , economics , psychology , social psychology
After a period of decline, the Alpine valley of Andermatt in Switzerland is undergoing major development as a holiday resort by an Egyptian real estate billionaire. A documentary film on the process, by a young Swiss filmmaker, highlights the ambivalent relationship between global corporatist efforts to ‘rescue’ struggling rural areas, and the local communities concerned. Stephan Petermann , who is researching the future of the countryside for architect Rem Koolhaas's think tank AMO, gives an account of it.