At Home with Replicants: The Architecture of Blade Runner
The Tyrell Headquarters seem to be modeled on a Mayan Temple. Internally, its architecture and design is eclectic. A visionary future is held at bay by size. As with the elevation of Deckard’s apartment, here the only concession to the future—albeit an imagined future—is enormity. Conversely, other architectural possibilities are provided by the transformation of the given; however, the transformation in question is decay. What comes to be juxtaposed within the cosmopolitan urban fabric is decay—the continuity rather than the teleology of decay—and the modern vast. The replicant is seen as a threat within this context. It is as this point that the constraint governing both architecture and film needs to be reintroduced.
An essay by Andrew Benjamin //
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