When I was in school I was getting disgusted with the attitude of art being so religious or sacred, so I wanted to make something which people could relate to without having read a book about it first ...

In order to resist the attendant vices of his enterprise – the romanticising habits of a national-cinema tradition – Safdie moves in the opposite direction to Dickinson – towards lo-fi realism, the ...

They became emblems of an alien future, imminent and universal. These concrete monuments in remote Minnesota or on the ...