‘Green Over Gray - Emilio Ambasz’
Directed by Francesca Molteni and Mattia Colombo, the documentary Green Over Gray offers a walk through the life and work of the Argentinian architect Emilio Ambasz (Resistencia, 1943). The film shows how architecture can combat climate change and provide solutions to urban challenges. Green Over Gray explores Ambasz’s impact on sustainable architecture through four of his works: the House of Spiritual Retreat in Seville, Spain (1975), the Lucille Halsell Conservatory in the San Antonio Botanical Garden in San Antonio, Texas (1982), the ACROS Center in Fukuoka, Japan (1990), and the Venice-Mestre Hospital in Mestre, Italy (2008). Tadao Ando, Kengo Kuma, Toyo Ito, Barry Bergdoll, Fulvio Irace, and others make an appearance in the film.
From Theodor Adorno to Peter Sloterdijk by way of the Günter Anders to whom we owe the term 'inverse utopia,' German philosophy livens up a text that also fascinatingly presents Asian extremes of density, which reaches as many as 700 dwellings per hectare in Hong Kong's City One, to imagine a perhaps very plausible dystopia.
