City of glass: Tom Vanderbilt on Doug Aitken at MoMA.(ON SITE)

Artforum International | January 1, 2007| | Copyright

THE IMPLICATIONS of the glass-curtain wall for both cinema and architecture were delightfully suggested in Jacques Tati's monumental Playtime (1967), a film shot in wildly expansive, stunningly deep-focused 70 mm--critic Jonathan Rosenbaum argues that this was Tati's vision of the shape of contemporary life--and which took as one of its central characters modernism itself. No doubt inspired by Paris's edge-city La Defense development begun a few years earlier, the film's exorbitant set (dubbed "Tativille") features buildings comprising a wilderness of mirrors and windows ...

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