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Barack Obama wanted to be an architect, so did Brat Pitt. You got to read this article – And now let us praise hot architects. Hollywood can’t get enough of them.

“Architects once were portrayed as sophisticates and what has happened to them both in reality and on film is that they are now seen as just ordinary folk, kind of a hack or bumbler,” says one longtime San Francisco architect, who has observed that the field no longer attracts the best and the brightest because there are so many other avenues to be creative that are far more lucrative. Source: sfgate.com
Why is there always a drafting table and a t-square in most of these movies?

Paul Neuman in “The Towering Inferno”

Keanu Reeves in “The Lake”

Steve Martin in “HouseSitter”

Woody Harrelson in “Indecent Proposal”

Michael Keaton in “White Noise”

Frank Gehry (Voice) in “The Simpsons”

Gary Cooper in “Fountainhead”

Jude Law (Landscape Architect) in “Breaking and Entering”

Adam Sandler in “Click”

Liam Neeson in “Love Actually”

Wesley Sinipes in “Jungle Fever”

Luke Wilson in “My super Ex-Girlfriend”

Ashton Kutcher (Archi Student) in the “Butterfly Effect”

Matt Dillon in “You, Me and Drupree”

Tom Hanks in “Sleepless in Seattle”

Charles Bronson in “Death Wish”

Michelle Pfeiffer in “One fine Day”

Matt Dillon in “Something about Mary”

Tom Selleck in “Three man and a Baby”

Henry Fonda in “12 Angry Men”

Zach Braff in “The Last Kiss”

Virginia Madsen in “Firewall”

Matthew Broderick in “The Cable Guy”
Author: Ngan Tengyuen. This entry is filed under Architecture Humour and was updated on May 19, 2012.
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- ^ Architecture - Architecture (Latin architectura, from the Greek ἀρχιτέκτων – arkhitekton, from ἀρχι- "chief" and τέκτων "builder, carpenter, mason") is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.
- ^ Architect - An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings, that have as their principal purpose human occupancy or use.
- ^ Pritzker Architecture Prize - The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honour "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture".
- ^ - Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture, Dover Publications(1985). ISBN 0-486-25023-7
- ^ - Rondanini, Nunzia Architecture and Social Change Heresies II, Vol. 3, No.
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blip
Richard Gere interpreted a successful architect in “Intersection” with Sharon Stone, a remake of the French film LES CHOSES DE LA VIE.
dani
Hi,
two more: Kevin Kline in “House As A Life” and Ewan McGregor in “The Serpent’s Kiss”.
It’s a really nice post anyway, thanks.
Will
Also –
Jeff Bridges as Max Klein – “Fearless” (1993)
Albert Finney as Mark Wallace – “Two For The Road” (1967)
Kirk Douglas as Larry Coe – “Strangers When We Meet” (1960)
Richard Gere as Vincent Eastman – “Intersection” (1994)
Helmut Bakaitis as The Architect – “The Matrix Reloaded” (2003) – I know it doesn’t fit the ‘celluloid architect’ type since he isn’t really an architect but still worth a mention.
Tarek
Mat Dillon played a fake architect in that movie, he just pretended to be one!
Anyway this was an interesting post.
Homer
If i remember right, Ashton Kutcher was a Psychology student in “the butterfly effect”
franck
And David Vincent (Roy Thinnes) in The Invaders
Filinho
not to forget Jason Alexander as George from ‘Seinfeld’ who “always wanted to pretend that he’s an architect”
marbledcloud
didn’t realize that many architects in the movies. Nice one :)
bk2000
don’t forget Brian Dennehy in Belly of an Architect…
http://www.cooper.edu/facilities/library/vrc/pix/picks_pix/greenaway-architect.jpg
suze
…. and most recently Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tom in (500) Days of Summer. Tom studied architecture but didn’t realize his dream of practicing til Summer (or Autumn.)
Ernie Bayles
I seem to remember that Billy Crystal was an architect in “Sleepless in Seattle”? Or is old age just getting to me.
kenn Young
Don’t forget the iconic designer of “raised ranches” Mike Brady from the “Brady Bunch Movie”
Jim Bradberry
Wilbur Post in Mr. Ed. He had the drafting board right there in Mr. Ed’s stable! Would you hire an architect who talked to his horse?
Sam
Bob (David Duchovny) in “Return to Me”
Bella
and Keanu Reeves in The Lake House….
Yumna
Inception (2010) – Ellen Page, and pretty much every one else in that movie was an architect
ex. Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon Levitt
Boojes
let’s not forget the latest additions Ellen Page and Lukas Haas as Ariadne and Nash, respectively as “Architects” from INCEPTION.
Nick Hendrickson
John Cassavetes in “Tempest” (1982) is a New York architect going through a mid-life crisis. He drops out, moves to a Greek island and starts building a Greek theater, along with the help of his teenage daughter (Molly Ringwald in her film debut). The movie is loosely based on the Shakespeare play so there are many subplots, but the portrait of an architect and the beautiful Greek scenery in this movie are part of why I became an architect.
Ryan Avellanosa
Is the band Pink Floyd really composed of Architecture dropouts?
Just wondering ‘cuz I heard.
Kate
Nick from ”Til There Was You’ (1997) >> architects can be also romantic ^^
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118523/;
Leo from ‘The Architect’ (2006) >> the iconic architect-idealist type
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0466665/;
Georg from ‘Der Architekt’ (2008) >> confession of an architect
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1223930/
Mum
Mike Brady of the Brady Bunch….
kallikrates
matthew perry and oliver platt in “three to tango”.
Geoffrey
i have installed archicad 12. running on demo mode i can’t save a project.Please send me only save file of archi cad 12.
mohamad
Hello! I´m an architecture student in iran i love tadao ando
Cesar
It would be interesting to see all this in order by date/year and see the society’s changing view of Architects.
Kayel
You musn’t forget Ted Mosby of How I Met Your Mother..