How 'Star Wars' Replicated Real-Life Architecture | Architectural Digest
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- Today on AD, architectural researcher Sam Williams returns to break down and compare structures and locations in the Star Wars universe to their real-life, earthly, inspiration. Learn more about the architectural styles and cultural touchstones that were woven into these exotic locales a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
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I'm an architecture student and I've been a huge star wars fan since grade 4. the world building is what captivated me most about star wars and the architecture is such an integral part of it. The set designers continue to do amazing work in the Bad Batch and Andor especially, and if I don't wind up working in a architecture firm, I think i'd want to work in set design for fantastical worlds like those of star wars
While it’s correct that Tatooine was filmed in North Africa it would have been nice to cite that it was specifically Tunisia and the region Tataouine was the inspiration.
About fires on Endor, the mosses, ferns, and atmospheric visuals indicate that it is a rain forest like the Pacific Northwest and not susceptible to wildfires like Southern California.
0:28 and 0:59 These scenes were filmed on location at the Plaza de España in Seville, Spain (1928). It is a landmark example of Regionalism Architecture, mixing elements of the Baroque Revival, Renaissance Revival and Moorish Revival (Neo-Mudéjar) styles of Spanish architecture. The Plaza de España has been used as a filming location, including scenes for Lawrence of Arabia (1962). The building was used as a location in the Star Wars movie series Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) - in which it featured in exterior shots of the City of Theed on the Planet Naboo. It also featured in the 2012 film The Dictator. The 2023 Netflix series, Kaos, will also feature scenes filmed at the Plaza. The plaza was used as a set for the video of Simply Red's song "Something Got Me Started".
Ahhh, nerdom at its finest! Very interesting! I just want to point out that the courtyard of Luke's house is not a ghorfa. It is in fact the real courtyard of a real "underground" house in Matmata, Tunisia, which has been turned into a hotel. I stayed there, and even had breakfast in Luke's dining room! Alas, they did not serve blue milk - missed opportunity there. The slave quarters shown in Phantom Menace are in fact ghorfas, and you can visit the ones that were used as sets for the movie.
This was awesome! I love sci-fi/fantasy and AD so yes, more please! Star Wars any time but also Dune, Game of Thrones, Star Trek, Blade Runner.....you name it! Thanks!
05:36 Ghorfa is in my country Tunisia 🇹🇳(Tatooine) proudly distinguished with second most number of unique Star Wars film sites (12 total). Thank you AD for this video.
Very fun and informative breakdown. Naboo is also heavily influenced by the Civic Center building here in Marin County, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (and where George Lucas has been known to serve his jury duty)!
Naboo's domes, red stone, and classical columns were also heavily inspired by San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts. Today's Lucasfilm Campus is located *_right next_* to the Palace of Fine Arts as part of the SF Presidio.
@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive Is nobody gonna mention Sevilla? The Plaza de Espana is basically 1:1 used in one shot (with digital added domes and towers).
@@u.p.1038 not basically, it WAS used as an actual filming location.
Great video! "Princess Amidala of Alderaan" I don't think is an actual person though. Queen Padme Amidala is from Naboo, and was never a princess as that's an honorary elected title given when she was elected to the position. Her daughter, Leia while not born on Alderaan, was raised there, so that part is correct.
He actually called it Alderaa. The nerve!
I don't think he's really a fan. He only has a passing knowledge of SW and was assigned this topic by his superiors, most likely.
@@jsturaveragedad Yeah, but maybe he just has an outer-rim accent or something 😉
@@barkboingfloom Maybe! He still had some pretty interesting insights and got most of it right! I just thought that one spot was particularly confusing 🤷♂
Please touch grass - the channel is dedicated to architecture and not Star Wars
This such a fascinating look into architecture in film. Please make this a series! ❤😊
I have never been so "bored" and "entertained" at the same time!! great work! thanks!
Maybe I misheard, but Padme is from Naboo, not Alderaan. The Organas (and their adopted daughter Leia) are the last royals of Alderaan.
Also the Death Star is not a planet 🤦♂️
Either is Endor
@parallax3d Star Wars canon is very confusing with "Endor" referring to a moon, the planet that moon orbits, and the binary star system that planet orbits. And, to be extra annoying, the other eight moons of the planet Endor have unique names.
This was absolutely fascinating to watch and I learned so much...thank you
Lord of th Rings would be nice as they clearly had medieval and latter Europe as a refrence
What a wealth of information. Thanks so much for sharing with us. Every time I watch your videos I learn so much.
this was so interesting and insightful!
What is also important to notice is that on Ecumenopolis the senate building takes up A LOT of areal space on the ground in an extremely dense city which indicates how rich, powerful and important the place is to be able to take up so much space on the ground. As suppose to building up which takes up less space and is therefore cheaper.
Also the “ground” is like 2000 floors above the planet’s surface.
Love this, though I've always looked at Aldera at a mix of Le Corbusier's park ideals mixed with Vancouver's City of Glass formed by all its point towers. The backdrop of the mountains certainly adds to that latter bit.
I remember I got this little tiny book from "The Wall" (WAAAY before F.Y.E.) around the time Episode I came out that showed off all the droids, vehicles and architecture from the movie!
The Senate building in Coruscant reminds me of the Brazilian National Congress building, designed by Oscar Niemeyer in the 1950s, which has one dome facing upwards (for the Chamber of Deputies) and another one facing downwards (for the National Senate). Great video by the way!
interesting video, i've not seen the OG movies, but this made me want to
Dew it!!
Really enjoyed this. More like this, please!
What a great video! Thank you
Loved your analysis of Star Wars architecture! Insightful and interesting. I was hoping, perhaps, for specifics about real structures used in the films, but maybe this doesn't intersect with your area of expertise?
Well done thank you 🍿
This video doesn't have enough likes!! Well done on the very clear explanations and comparison. 10/10!
This guy put more thought into the architecture of Alderaan than the show ever did 😂
The labels on Naboo are wrong. They are from Episode I 1999, not Return of the Jedi 1983
No. They aren't. They are from Return of the Jedi. The final celebration shots. Though, funnily enough, they may be from the Return of the Jedi digital version, released in or around 1999.
I always read the corusant spires as vents like motorway vents
Good insight and comparison, but, Padme was an elected official when she was Queen, this was made clear, she did not abdicate her throne… minor quibble, I know….
Really cool series!
I'm an architect and geek and I love it this videob
Thank you 😊
Brilliant!
Love this!!
Loved the video :)
Thanks, Sam! 🏛 #ArchitecturalDigest #SamWilliams #StarWars
Best video ever! 🎉
Chaunce is gonna love this one 😂😊
The 1st is Byzantine architecture, I think
Consider doing a one on Game of Thrones.
That's a great idea, I'd love to hear this fellas ideas about the various cities of Westeros!
Amazing review by this gentleman. Wow wow wow. Do Wakanda next!
I absolutely love this video. Please bring Sam back!
Could you do a video on breaking down different official residences e.g.: the white house, buckingham palace etc.?
My Granddad worked on/built the sets for the older star wars in Elstree studios
Loved this star wars is one of my favorites :) I would love to see an architect break down the architectural details of Avatar the last Airbender
I don’t usually watch these, but this is cool. Please do another!
Quality content!
What an intriguing and insightful analysis of Star Wars architecture!
These videos with Sam Are excellent! Keep them coming!
9:05! I am so speechless for this scene! Wtf!
Awesome job!!! Very good information!!!
I swear I understand more about the plot of the OG movies from this than from the films themselves
I never knew im so interested in Star Wars
More interesting content like this!
I think you’re ascribing intentionality after the fact to Lucas and the other filmmakers involved in the original trilogy based on how the story unfolded in the prequels and the series. This is poor scholarship and what is a teleological argument that likely would not withstand scrutiny. For instance, the Death Star inverted dome is essentially a parabolic structure designed to focus the destructive laser beams and has no relationship, either functional, symbolic, or thematic to the domes used elsewhere in the architecture seen in later films.
A reference to Star Wars can be considered scholarship? 😮
Sam Williams could you do an examination of Arrakis in the movie "Dune" aka Rakis.
Love this!
wonderfully done
“When we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves.” No truer words have ever been spoken!
"Alderaan's architecture looks more to the future" And what a bright future this turned out to be for Alderaan.
5:38 this is a real city in the south of Tunisia called Tataouine
True, but the village in Tunisia is called Matmata 😊
As a former Stuytown resident, being compared to Alderaan living pleases me a little. Until you consider the planet's... demolition date.
Imagem 00:09, idêntico a " gruta do Senhor" na cidade de Iguape / São Paulo / Brasil , que tem referência religiosa na região!
More More More!!
Wad searching for this video
Is there a random comic or book somewhere that says (Princess?) Amidala is from Alderaan? Because she's not.
Like this ✨✨
the fact that you had him look at tatooine and not show Jabba’s Palace is criminal
Also, consider Netflix series Cowboy Bebop for architecture research
Where’s the “ Bar” ? The most interesting part of the franchise
You should do Game of Thrones!
Do Lord of the Rings next
10/10 youtube video
Love this! But check your story points before referencing… Aldera
except the planet is Alderaan, the city he's talking about is Aldera
he said Alderaan when talking about the planet and Aldera when talking about the city?
His focus is on architectural design rather than on the identification of fictional planets and cities😂
Amidala is from Naboo- not Alderaan
Colonialism imposed?
Have you read The Architect As Totalitarian, by Theodore Dalrymple?
It’s an essay available online, I recommend it.
I'd like to live in tattooine (phantom menace era)
but I hate sand...
5:30 I was there when I was on vacation in Tunesia in '04. 5:34 It literaly and figuratively isnt. Its a home dug into the earth.
Great video but it hurt hearing him say Alderaan wrong the whole time
Ignoring episodes 7-9, as we all should! 😂
Lord of the Rings next
break down DUNE
no mention of Seville's world fair ... blind guy
Also the empire was not in tattoine as it was in the outer rim and it was ruled by the hutts. Btw tatooine is named after Tataouine a town near of the filming location in Tunisia that has that kind of architecture shown in tattoine.
relax, are you 12 ?
i thought of pantheon at first picture
how do you talk about the architecture of the prequel palace and not even mention the plaza de españa
You're walking into the den of wolves talking about Star Wars. LOL A lot of your references were off but we fans appreciate your real-life look into something that we love. Good work
But just a note the empire did not have permanent outpost on Tatooine. They were only there looking for the droids. So those towers you referenced weren't Imperial, they were just architecture of the region.
Alderaaaa...
Alderahh
Images from original star wars are labeled '1977' but are from remastered version which added a ton of CG additions. Should be labeled '1997 Special Edition'
This guy is so smart 😮
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7:34 *cough, soveit union
they were on the moon of endor, not on the planet :) and on alderaaN
Aldera is the capital of Alderaan. He's pronouncing it correctly
The empire was not on Endor for resource extraction, they were using it to construct the Death Star in orbit because it was secluded. Also, the empire did not have a permanent posting on Tatooine, they were only there to search for the droids so the tower in Mos Eisley was likely not an Imperial guard tower.
Endor was chosen over Kef Bir due to lack of resources in latter, implying Endor was both more secluded and better suited to their purposes materially. Also, thematically, it makes little difference, as the Empire is a generic signifier for American imperialism (in Vietnam, in case of Endor) and colonialism more broadly, which of course comes in extractive and other forms. So... the point was fine. No need to be pedantic.
Aldera
Glad they got a guy who knows the lore lol
Cool video but the Death Star is in no way a planet.
He didn't say it was. He said it's manmade
@@fkr9032 he said it twice. Among other silly errors.
Maybe leave this to Lucasfilm's production designers and historians. The video had so many errors I couldn't finish watching it.
Like what? Just curious