Ila Bêka

Ila Bêka (also Ila Beka or Ilabeka) is an Italian artist, filmmaker, producer and publisher living in Paris.

He trained as an architect with a degree from the IUAV of Venice and the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville.

From 2005 he has been working in collaboration with Louise Lemoine with who he founded the research and creation platform Bêka&Partners. Presented by The New York Times as "cult figures in the European architecture world",[1] Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine mainly focus their research on experimenting new narrative and cinematographic forms in relation to contemporary architecture. Koolhaas Houselife, the first film Ila Bêka co-directed with Louise Lemoine in 2008, has been acclaimed by the international critique as "the architectural cult movie".[2]

He has been invited to lecture and present his films in many international cultural institutions and prestigious universities such as Venice Biennale (2008, 2010, 2014), MoMA (New-York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Barbican Art Gallery (London), Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montréal), NAi (Rotterdam, NL), MAXXI (Rome), SALT (Istanbul), Harvard GSD, Architectural Association School of Architecture (London).

Since 2013 he teaches "Cinema & Architecture" at GSAPP Columbia University for the New York/Paris program. Since 2015, he teaches "Filming Architecture" with Marco Müller and Louise Lemoine at the AAM, the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, in Switzerland.

He has been awarded by Metropolis (architecture magazine) as Game Changer 2015.[3]

Filmography

Published Dvd-Books

References

  1. ↑ Nicolai Ouroussoff. "Inhabiting a Piece of Art: It’s Not Always So Pretty", The New York Times, 29 January 2010.
  2. ↑ Elsa Fernàndez-Santos. "La casa de Guadalupe", El Pais, 13 April 2009.
  3. ↑ Véronique Vienne. "Game Changers 2015: Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine", Metropolis (architecture magazine), January 2015.
  4. ↑ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Koolhaas Houselife / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 28 May 2013.
  5. ↑ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Pomerol, Herzog & de Meuron / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 29 May 2013.
  6. ↑ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Xmas Meir / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 31 May 2013.
  7. ↑ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Gehry’s Vertigo / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 1 June 2013.
  8. ↑ ArchDaily. "Living Architectures: Inside Piano / Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine", ArchDaily, 2 June 2013.

External links

Bibliography

  • Ada Luise Huxtable, « Ingenious and Demanding », The Wall Street Journal, 2009-09-30
  • Christopher Hawthorne, « Tuesday at the Hammer: 'Koolhaas Houselife' », Los Angeles Times, 2010-08-03
  • Frédérique Hedelmann, « Guadalupe et l'architecte », Le Monde, 2008-09-22
  • Jean-Jacques Larrochelle, « sacrées architectures », Le Monde, 2013-04-16
  • Patricia Zohn, « Culture Zohn: Life in the Koolhaas », The Huffington Post, 2010-07-30 .
  • Patricia Zohn, « Ingenious and Demanding », Huffington Post, 2014-10-06
  • Rowan Moore, « 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale review: put yourself in their space… », The Guardian, 2014-06-08 .