In going over this week’s readings, two major themes running through them jumped out at me as being particularly important and interrelated. The first was
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The Tourist & The Spectator
Film has been compared to architecture almost since its inception (Okman 1717). “Cinema is: so many corporations, such and such turnovers of capital, so and
Read moreReading Response: Week 6: POV
Does cinema rebuild a city or just its perspective? While this week’s readings focused on “travel” as much as on film and architecture, I couldn’t
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The common thread I found between all the readings this week was the notion that montage is found in architecture as it is in film.
Read moreReading Response Week 6 – Cinema & Architecture
Reading Response Week 6 – Architecture and Cinema I believe that Eisenstein’s (2009) approach to linking architecture and cinema offers a fruitful approach to start
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Space Voy[ag]uers
Film and cinema theory have long brought up the idea of the audience as “voyeur”, with an emphasis on the audience’s illusion of participation in
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Must-See Design Documentaries
I stumbled upon this article today from Architecture Digest’s Editors selecting essential films from the past decade dealing with architecture. Considering this week’s reading dealt
Read moreTo "Site-See" One Must Activate (Week 6 Reading Response)
The conception of a visual language that moves from a visual space into a kinetic space seems tenuous at best, and though Giuliana makes these
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I am sure that my reading of this week’s texts has been wildly misinterpreted, but while absorbing lessons of cinema and architecture throughout these selected
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Polite Resistance and the Dimensions of Narrative – Week Six Response
Bernard Tschumi – Screenplays. 1976 – Resistance gives way to re-sequencing, which in turn allows for infinite event. The best architectures, at least in relation to human
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