Architecture and Film

Architecture and Film
Author: Mark Lamster
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2000
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781568982076

An examination of the ways in which architecture and architects are treated on screen and how these depictions filter and shape the ways we understand the built environment. There are essays from contributors from a range of disciplines and interviews of those working behind the scenes.

Cinema and Architecture

Cinema and Architecture
Author: Francois Penz
Publisher: British Film Institute
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1997-08
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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Architecture Filmmaking

Architecture Filmmaking
Author: Igea Troiani
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Architecture in motion pictures
ISBN: 9781783209941

This book investigates the ways in which architectural researchers, teachers of architecture, their students and practising architects, filmmakers and artists are using filmmaking uniquely in their practice.

Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination

Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination
Author: Tim Bergfelder
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2007
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9053569804

Summary: "Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination presents for the first time a comparative study of European film set design in the late 1920s and 1930s; based on a wealth of designers ʼ drawings, film stills and archival documents, the book offers a new insight into the development and significance of trans-national artistic collaboration during this period. European cinema from the late 1920s to the late 1930s is famous for its attention to detail in terms of set design and visual effect. Focusing on developments in Britain, France, and Germany, Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s European Cinema provides a comprehensive analysis of the practices, styles, and function of cinematic production design during this period, and its influence on subsequent filmmaking patterns."--Publisher description.

Film Architecture

Film Architecture
Author: Dietrich Neumann
Publisher: Prestel Pub
Total Pages: 207
Release: 1999
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9783791321639

Catalog of an exhibition held at the David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, R.I., Dec. 8, 1995-Jan. 21, 1996, and at other museums and galleries through Sept. 1996.

Architecture, Philosophy, and the Pedagogy of Cinema

Architecture, Philosophy, and the Pedagogy of Cinema
Author: Nadir Lahiji
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2021-05-26
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1000392104

Philosophers on the art of cinema mainly remain silent about architecture. Discussing cinema as ‘mass art’, they tend to forget that architecture, before cinema, was the only existing ‘mass art’. In this work author Nadir Lahiji proposes that the philosophical understanding of the collective human sensorium in the apparatus of perception must once again find its true training ground in architecture. Building art puts the collective mass in the position of an ‘expert critic’ who identifies themselves with the technical apparatus of architecture. Only then can architecture regain its status as ‘mass art’ and, as the book contends, only then can it resume its function as the only ‘artform’ that is designed for the political pedagogy of masses, which originally belonged to it in the period of modernity before the invention of cinema.

Film, Architecture and Spatial Imagination

Film, Architecture and Spatial Imagination
Author: Renée Tobe
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2016-08-25
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1315533723

Films use architecture as visual shorthand to tell viewers everything they need to know about the characters in a short amount of time. Illustrated by a diverse range of films from different eras and cultures, this book investigates the reciprocity between film and architecture. Using a phenomenological approach, it describes how we, the viewers, can learn how to read architecture and design in film in order to see the many inherent messages. Architecture’s representational capacity contributes to the plausibility or 'reality' possible in film. The book provides an ontological understanding that clarifies and stabilizes the reciprocity of the actual world and a filmic world of illusion and human imagination, thereby shedding light on both film and architecture.

Architecture and Science-Fiction Film

Architecture and Science-Fiction Film
Author: David T. Fortin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1351957465

The home is one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However, while similarities and crossovers between architecture and SF have proliferated throughout the past century, the home is often overshadowed by the spectacle of 'otherness'. The study of the familiar (home) within the alien (SF) creates a unique cultural lens through which to reflect on our current architectural condition. SF has always been linked with alienation; however, the conditions of such alienation, and hence notions of home, have evidently changed. There is often a perceived comprehension of the familiar that atrophies the inquisitive and interpretive processes commonly activated when confronting the unfamiliar. Thus, by utilizing the estranging qualities of SF to look at a concept inherently linked to its perceived opposite - the home - a unique critical analysis with particular relevance for contemporary architecture is made possible.

Studios Before the System

Studios Before the System
Author: Brian R. Jacobson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0231539665

By 1915, Hollywood had become the epicenter of American filmmaking, with studio "dream factories" structuring its vast production. Filmmakers designed Hollywood studios with a distinct artistic and industrial mission in mind, which in turn influenced the form, content, and business of the films that were made and the impressions of the people who viewed them. The first book to retell the history of film studio architecture, Studios Before the System expands the social and cultural footprint of cinema's virtual worlds and their contribution to wider developments in global technology and urban modernism. Focusing on six significant early film corporations in the United States and France—the Edison Manufacturing Company, American Mutoscope and Biograph, American Vitagraph, Georges Méliès's Star Films, Gaumont, and Pathé Frères—as well as smaller producers and film companies, Studios Before the System describes how filmmakers first envisioned the space they needed and then sourced modern materials to create novel film worlds. Artificially reproducing the natural environment, film studios helped usher in the world's Second Industrial Revolution and what Lewis Mumford would later call the "specific art of the machine." From housing workshops for set, prop, and costume design to dressing rooms and writing departments, studio architecture was always present though rarely visible to the average spectator in the twentieth century, providing the scaffolding under which culture, film aesthetics, and our relation to lived space took shape.

The Architecture of Cinematic Spaces

The Architecture of Cinematic Spaces
Author: Mehruss Jon Ahi
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Architectural design in motion pictures
ISBN: 9781789382051

A highly visual, graphic analysis of film in terms of architecture, cinematic spaces and production design. Architectural floor plan drawings are presented alongside short, critical discussions of key twentieth and twenty-first-century films which help the reader to evaluate architectural spaces in film and think about the stories they tell.