Film allows for a passage to another world, transporting the audience to spaces that

perhaps make us feel more real than anything we experience in our daily lives.

Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement. One
conceives and reads a building in terms of sequences. To erect a building is to
predict and seek effects of contrast and linkage through which one passes . In the
continuous shot/sequence that a building is, the architect works with cuts and
edits, framings and openings. I like to work with a depth of field, reading space in
terms of its thickness, hence the superimposition of different screens, planes
legible from obligatory joints of passage which are to be found in all my buildings.
jean nouval
Film's undoubted ancestor...is -- architecture.
Sergei M. Eisenstein
What once was created uniquely by film-makers, a screen environment where fact and
fiction could be offered in all combinations as a continuum in time, is now becoming an
everyday part of the creative realm of architecture. The areas of interest, the traditional
skills, the arts and sciences of film and architecture, are reaching a symbiosis early
practitioners could imagine but few could attain."
Franois Penz & Maureen Thomas

CINEMA
BACKGROUND HISTORY

ARCHITECTURE
ITS BACK GRPUND AND HISTORY

HOW THEY ARE LINKED?

Cinema and architecture are close because of its
temporal and spatial structure, also because both
architecture and cinema articulate lived space.
These two art forms create and mediate comprehensive
images of life and the era that it depicts.
In the same way that buildings and cities create and
preserve images of culture and a particular way of life,
cinema illuminates the cultural aspect of both the time of
its making .
Both forms of art define the dimensions and essence of
existential space; they both create experiential scenes of
life situations

Whether real or imaginary there is an inextricable link between the creation of films and development of our built environment, at least in the exploration of
volumetric space in time.

Tron: Legacynot only

features design that
visually resembles
real-world
parametric design,
but it also deals with
questions of design
philosophy.
The actual experience of an architectural space
within that space has many similarities to the viewers
perception of a chosen sequence in a film. Films exaggerate and portray a larger than life view, this require
films to create their own worlds.

One and the same event - a kiss or a murder - is

an entirely different story depending on whether
it takes place in a bedroom, bathroom library,
elevator . An event obtains its particular
meaning through the time of the day,
illumination, weather and soundscape. In
addition, every place has its history and
symbolic connotations which merge into the
incident.

Presentation of a cinema event is

totally inseparable from the
architecture of space.

1- architecture as a tool for

cinema/architecture for cinema :

As a background in theaters cinema halls

architecture can be used cinematically in two different ways,

according to Vincent Kling.

Expressionist films. When the technology was highly expensive and

limited to black-and-white and no sound, symbolic movements of
characters and canvas drawings of buildings and landscapes were

Art Nouveau (approx. 18901914)

Midnight in Paris (2011)

used in order to bring the action, as in Fritz Lang's Metropolis

(sample movie).

The interior of the Htel

Tassel (1894) located in
Brussels and designed by
Victor Horta.

Realistic films, both in contemporary architecture that we see in

Antonioni's films, and in surrealistic (artificial) films like sci-fi or
horror, as in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.

CINEMA HALL, are another helping tool for movies,

Futurism (1909 - 1914)

The Fifth Element (1997)

Metropolis(1927) depicts a
dystopian future that was heavily
influenced by New York City's
1920's Art Deco
The dense skyscrapers and rapid (even
dangerous) transportation of the Fifth
Element echoes the urban aspirations of

CINEMA AS A TOOL FOR ARCHITECTUTRE : 1.As inspiration and influential for thought process cinema constructs spaces in
the mind, creates mind spaces, reflecting thus the inherent ephemeral
architecture of human mind, thought and emotion. Many times what is being
fanaticized in cinema gets its actual physical manifestation done. Movie
emphasizing or based on places actually depicts architecture of the movie as
hero like the fall.
2. Documentries,movies related to places many times helps in creating
awareness about that place /architecture. How many of us have gone to Venice?
But many songs like one in bachna aey haseeno khuda jaane,beautifully
captured the location.in similar fashion many good examples of architecture
which are inaccessible for general public do get captured by movies and thus
gets their part of fame, which eventually affects their economy in the form of
tourism.

SET CREATION IN MOVIES

SET DESIGNING