One time my husband and I went to watch another Koolhaas 'documentry' at the arts centre here in Hong Kong. It was about 49 hours long, so when I say documentary, it was really a collection of possibly every interview he had every given on tape put together by a fan. It's around that time we decided not to go to each others industry related parties.
I can't bring myself to believe that all starchitects are egotistical wankers that expect coma inducing films about them. Architecture is a brutal bottom of the pile profession that makes people broken and jaded, even with all his success Koolhaas is constantly being asked 'why don't you just tone it down a bit'... by chumps on the internet who think our livelihood is just another consumer commodity as as such should be bland enough for the mass consumer to choke down.
This project however hardly features the man himself, instead it is about his buildings and the people that interact with them. I am excited to hear that I am not the only person in the world that has a soft anthropological spot in my interest in the built environment, Tomas comments himself that it is just simply a more interesting and enduring aspect of a building. I hope that I can stream it not too long after it's release as it is unlikely to be the sort of film that'd get released here.
Here's a snippet about the CCTV building in Beijing (sorry it is vimeo)
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