This topics was started back in 2005 and I'd like to bring it back because there have been some more movies with architects as the lead role or one of the supporting roles.

So what movies have the main character or one of the supporting characters as an architect/ landscape architect or 'designer'????

Something's New, Simon Baker plays a landscape architect

Click, Adam Sandler and David Hasselhoff play architects

My Super Ex-girlfriend, Luke Wilson architect

there's a few semi new ones to get it started

Californication and that stupid movie with Jude Law.

how about the fountainhead? i heard its really realistic...

Is it recent to you?

LOL no the fountainhead is not recent but that's alright I've yet to see it or read it.

umm Closer is the movie with Jude Law

The Lake House-2006 (Keanu Reeves)

You me and Dupree (Kevin Dillon). I've also noticed "architecture offices" used frequently in commercials.

right on, parkerd: they're all over the damn place in commercials...especially ones that focus on small businesses. i think any time they need to spruce up a ad shoot they dust off a model (presumably from an arch. school dumpster) and put it on the desk in the back.

of course, it's nothing new : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Mwbh9Dejk

The wife of Tim Allen in the new "Shaggy Dog" was an architect
Richard Gere's paramour in the "Breathless" remake was an architecture student
Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle
And since Vado opened the door for older films, "The Towering Inferno" where the parther has a king sized bed in his office (for consultations, of course)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u07J92RN6Po

She doesn't know how to use a computer - in 2008.

Charles Bronson in Death Wish as a New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad...

the namesake. it's about indian immigrants with cal penn. he is an architect in that movie. good movie by the way.

maybe it's kal not cal.

michael keaton was an architect in 'white noise'

Jude Law was a landscape architectect in "Breaking and Entering"

"Entering" looks funny when you spell it out.

Firewall 2006
Virginia Madsen as Beth Stanfield

She had to escape with her children from the intruders using the crawl space of her house.

"Entering" looks funny when you spell it out.

so does "architectect"

is that NCARB-proof?

how i met your mother

if you watch the deleted scenes in love acutally, you see that Liam Neeson is an architect...it explains the ultra contemporary kitchen.

Ya parkerd, the Death Wish Pentology!

# 1 Death Wish (1974)
# 2 Death Wish II (1982)
# 3 Death Wish 3 (1985)
# 4 Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
# 5 Death Wish V: The Face of Death (1994)


I can't believe there are actually five of these. How ridiculous, but I love them somehow.

come on? Was it really necessary to start a new thread for this. All of these movies where mentioned in the previous thread, most notably this one

well true, but it seems that the movies on that thread were ones that are well suited to architectural examination, versus this thread, which is focused on characters who are architects. a bit of a different tack, i think.

i mean, i don't think anyone would put any of the death wish movies on the same list as blade runner or city of lost children, right?

Why is there always a drafting desk in most of these?

Matthew Brodericks character in "Cable Guy"

The daughter in "father of the Bride"

my bad dammson. but thats pretty funny. perhaps i'll place that on my business cards.

architechnophilia
I started the thread for more RECENT movies if you read the top post!

:D

yeah techno learn how to read dammit and quit hijacking this valuable thread.

has anyone heard anything from UCLA? i heard a rumor...

but i'm really gullible these days

oops! wrong board, sorry

Sally Fields in Mrs. Doubtfire

The Architect (2006): Anthony LaPaglia ,is blamed for housing blocks he designed that turned into slums.

Frank Gehry plays an architect in Sketches of Frank Gehry

It's a real life drama...

Some architectural firm fired so many in this recession that they have to hire temporary workers to pretend working on the desk when important clients come for visit.

Now-a-days architects have to master many skills in order to survive...

mike brady in the brady bunch...of course.

Probably mentioned, but Kevin Klein's character in My Life As A House (or maybe just Life As A House). He's a model maker in a firm, for a slightly different take.

Also... Maybe this is only of interest to me, but the dad character in One-Hour Photo is an industrial designer. I can't think of any other movies with industrial designer characters.

Michelle Pfeiffer in "One Fine Day" with George Clooney....this is the one where her son destroys her skyscraper model and she runs all over nyc trying to get it fixed

the boyfriend in "in the bedroom" is an architecture student

sam waterson in "hannah and her sisters". i know it's not recent, but it is a notable portrayal of an architect.

Well.. not a movie nor recent, but why not:
"Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place"
Pete: a neurotic architeture student

^^^^...turned fireman

ashton kutcher was an arch student in the Butterfly Effect

No he isn't!!!! ^^^^^

Two for the Road

Uhm recent movies, Two for the Road was released in 1967

Isn't there a ridiculous commercial out now, for a phone I think, where a designey guy is busily taking advantage of all our new-fangled phone technology to upload and send a work-related video - and right under the phone you see a circle template sitting on his desk?

My husband and I saw it simultaneously and laughed out loud. But I've not seen the commercial again.

Sorry, I know it's not a movie, but it IS recent! And yet another ridiculous portrayal of architectural practice!

Just resurrect the old stuff next time.

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.......oh and that 2003 if that's recent history?

FRAC - you've got me going now I've seen Brad, and not in a good way.

It's all bollocks - the details lurk elsewhere in the discussions but suffice to say Brad gives the profession a bad name. Everything he touches turns to dust.

No Oscar for that shite parable from F Scott Fitzgerald - Forest Gump with A-levels.

and this curse

link

you can upload circle templates now? awesome. i'm gonna try and upload this lead pointer.

two from the 80's:

the charmingly low-brow
Three men and a baby.

AND

the hilariously bad Electric Dreams
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087197/plotsummary

Ooh ooh, Joseph Gordon-Leavitt plays a non-practicing architect in 500 Days of Summer. Good movie.

wonderk,,,going to see it tomorrow w/ the mrs...i will have to behave, since i have a major crush on zooey deschannel...

i heart zooey deschannel...and i'm a chick

I just saw Julie and Julia. One of the previews was for a movie entitled 'It's Complicated' with Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin. Steve Martin was referred to as the 'weird architect' that falls in love with Meryl. I believe the said the movie would be out near the holidays.

Here is what I posted on a thread about this topic from 2005:

There was an episode of E.R. in the first or second season when a schizophrenic kid came in, he was an architecture student but living on the streets of Chicago because he didn't stay on his meds. The cause/fixation of his schizophrenia was his obsession with Louis Sullivan's work. Then the curly-haired woman told him she had just bought a house in some neighborhood and he told her exactly which wall to knock out to find the original but hidden fireplace surround - and he was right, of course. It was actually a very sad and touching story. I could identify with a passion for architecture making you insane. And I thought the actor did a great job.

Thanks to IMDB (and stumbling across the trailer for Untitled) I found the episode and actor: It's Adam Goldberg, in E.R. Season 2 Episode 9 "Home".