A Silicon Valley king builds his opera house. The drama? All in the drywall.
2005-2008. Video. In 2005 San Francisco real estate magnate Angelo Sangiacomo commissioned Strickland to make a movie that would chronicle final stages in the construction of his new house in Pebble Beach, CA. Amidst the spectacle of the building site, the videographer sought to portray a design project of operatic proportions that involved a sometimes dissonant cast of characters and took more than 6 years to unfold. The owners hoped that this video record might lend future visibility to a structure’s bones and soul that otherwise vanish from sight by the time building is completed.
Direction
Strickland finds human drama in grout lines and permits.
Cinematography
Buildings as characters, light as plot.
Director
Rachel Strickland
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references Andrea Palladio, the 16th-century architect whose villas defined luxury living—Sangiacomo was playing in the big leagues of ego.
Pebble Beach's strict design codes meant this 'modern' villa had to negotiate with history itself, making the 29 scenes a record of architectural diplomacy as much as construction.
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