Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect

2009 / 56 min. / color
Directed by Michael Blackwood

Cecil Balmond: Visionary Engineer and Architect is a compelling documentation of a unique thinker and practitioner at the height of his architectural career. Through his conversation with architecture theorist and critic, Sanford Kwinter, Balmond reveals his vision and talent while the two tour his retrospective exhibition at the Graham Foundation in Chicago. Since the early 1980s Balmond has collaborated with many of today’s important contemporary architects such as Toyo Ito, Rem Koolhaas and Daniel Libeskind. With his astounding aesthetic algorithms, Balmond has introduced innovative structural concepts that have resulted in some of the most challenging buildings in the canon of contemporary architecture.

Directed by
Michael Blackwood

Cast
Cecil Balmond
Sanford Kwinter
Sarah Herda

Produced by
Michael Blackwood … producer
Rima Yamazaki … associate producer

Cinematography by
Mead Hunt

Film Editing by
Joelle Schon

Sound Department
Alan Chow … sound recordist

Additional Crew
Dominic Pipia … production assistant

IMDB: www.imdb.com/title/tt1826629/

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