Description
Film has long fascinated architects. From the Bauhaus masters and Le Corbusier to Charles and Ray Eames, from Bernard Tschumi and Rem Koolhaas to MOS, architects have deployed cinematic narratives in their own writing and research. They have leveraged the spatial,
temporal and sonic materiality of films to inflect their own design methodologies. The questions they ask of the medium are also the central questions of this seminar: How do architectural space and film space collide, re-situate and contaminate one another? How has architecture – both as image and metaphor– been manipulated, recast and re-framed by film? Bright Lights, Global Cities scales up these questions to examine representations of the city. Los Angeles and Lagos, New York and Hong Kong, Berlin and Tehran – how has our understanding of these cities been informed by film? In what ways have these films dramatized the consequences of globalization? In addition to weekly screenings, in class discussions will be structur