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- [ARCHITECTURE/ART is] . . . the conception of the world as law-bound in the relation of simple elementary components, yet open, unbounded, and contingent as a whole.
- ---Meyer Scaphiro "On Some Problems of the Semiotics of Visual Art: Field and Vehicle in Image-Signs"
- The artist's function is the mythologization of the environment and the world.
- ---Joseph Campbell "The Hero's Adventure"
- Not only might a designer be required to invent cities, individual buildings, and spaces but also to provide them with a history, with patterns and traces of use, in order to connect them to the film’s narrative and endow them with meaning.
- ---Dietrich Neumann Film Architecture: Set Designs from Metropolis to Blade Runner
- Dallas will be LA in another 15-20 years . . . I think it could be sooner than that.
- ---George Gintole [phone call with j7H]
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- X_MOVE STUDIO 2001 | SITESIGHT|SCENOGRAPHY: MOTION & eMOTION/MORPHOTION
ILM.BLADERUNNER.ILM.BLADERUNNER.ILM.BLADERUNNER.ILM.BLADERUNNER
- X _MOVE STUDIO 2001 --------- is a computer-based digital studio about architecture and film. Plan A|IL+M DFW involves the design of a Dallas-Fort Worth branch of the George Lucas special-effects movie studio labs Industrial Light + Magic. Plan B|BLADERUNNER.Z3974 involves the design of an architectural scenography for a movie. The object is the same in both cases: Create a powerful and dynamic imagistic interior and exterior world, involving fly-throughs and animation, and upload it to the Internet in the form of a 2-minute Trailer.
- X _MOVE = NEXT MOVE --------- alluding to a world of significant form we haven't yet seen and want to bring into the world. It's a way of saying that architecture is fundamentally plastic or plasmatic, that is, it represents, not a restatement of the world as it is, but a vision of the way the world could be. The concretization of a promise. A quest.
- 1. ARCHITECTURE IS THE STAGESET FOR THE DRAMA OF LIFE.
- It is SCENERY (SEE-nery), the MISE-EN-SCENE for the action---the tragedy and comedy---of human drama.
- [mise-en-scène = "the physical setting of an action : CONTEXT b : ENVIRONMENT, MILIEU synonym see BACKGROUND"]
- 2. FILM IS THE MATRIX OF THE ARTS.
- It is the art form that can include all others---the one in which architecture can find radical, unlimited, and influential expression.
- [MATRIX: Etymology: Latin ---mater = mother; a situation or surrounding substance within which something else originates, develops, or is contained: "Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every form of freedom." ---Benjamin N. Cardozo [www.dictionary.com]
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- PROGRAM:
- An Exterior and Interior World of VISUAL POWER for 1 of the following:
- A. IL+M DFW: Movie Studio/Digital Labs for Industrial Light + Magic DFW
- B. BLADERUNNER.Z3974: An Architectural Scenography for a Movie
- SITE:
- Various options
- DFW as the skyline, the vertical landscape of art & action . . .
- PROCESS/PRODUCT: :
- Integration of Video & 3D Graphics Digital Modeling & Animation + Internet Digital Streaming---2 Minute Trailer
- 1. TRAILER: PROJECT MOTION/e MOTION MORPHOTION
- 2. TRAILER: PROJECT FHa
- 3. DEVICESmoves / THEMESmeaning
- 4. 411
- TEXTS:
- Film Architecture: Set Designs from Metropolis to Blade Runner
- Dietrich Neumann. Paperback (September 1999)
- Prestel USA; ISBN: 3791321633
- a. Read the section on The Fountainhead pp. 126-133
- b. Read the Introduction by Dietrich Neumann, pp. 7-9
- c. Read "The Explosion of Space: Architecture and the Filmic Imaginary" by Anthony Vidler, pp. 13-25,
- especially pp. 13-17 (up to "Psycho-Spaces") + 22-24
- Zaha Hadid: The Complete Buildings and Projects
- Zaha Hadid, Aaron Betsky. Paperback (October 1998)
- Rizzoli International Publications; ISBN: 0847821331
- EL Croquis
- SPECIAL
REPRINTS/MONOGRAPHS (hard cover)
N.53+79 O.M.A. Rem Koolhaas 1987-98
N.52+73(I) Zaha Hadid 1983-1995 - S,M,L,XL
- Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau. Hardcover (June 1998)
- Penguin USA; ISBN: 1885254865
- Architecture & Film, Architectural Design Profile
- 112 (1994)
- Designing Dreams: Modern Architecture in the Movies
- Donald Albrecht, (London and New York: Thames and Hudson, 1987)
- FILMS:
- Kabinett des Doktor Caligari, Das (1920) (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1921) (USA))
- Directed by Robert Wiene; Writing credits: Hans Janowitz, Carl Mayer
- Starring: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, et al.
- www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/dvd/6305075492/tech-info/103-2699666-0131812
- The Last Laugh (1924)
- Directed
by F.W. Murnau; Writing credits: Carl Mayer
Starring Emil Jannings - "The old doorman at the Hotel Atlantis is proud of his job and he does it well - too well."
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005ASOR/qid%3D1002342427/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F0%5F1/104-8081195-0965505
- Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927)
- Directed by Walter Ruttmann; Writing credits: Karl Freund, Carl Mayer
- "This movie shows us one day in Berlin, the rhythm of that time, starting at the earliest morning and ends in the deepest night." B/W, Stereo, 62 min.
- DVD includes Opus 1 (Dir. Walther Ruttmann): Germany, 1922, Color, Stereo, 10 min.
- "Director Walther Rutmann's hand-colored film is an exploration of the geometry of movement."
- www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6305301697/qid%3D1002340967/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F0%5F1/104-8081195-0965505
- Metropolis (1927)
- Directed by Fritz Lang; Writing credits: Fritz Lang
- Starring: Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, et al.
- www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6305013578/qid=999474537/sr=1-2/ref=sc_d_2/103-2699666-0131812
- October (Ten Days That Shook the World)
- Directed by Grigori
Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein; Writing credits: Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei
M. Eisenstein
Starring: Nikolai Popov, Boris Livanov, - www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6305186774/qid=1002342017/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_3_5/104-8081195-0965505
- Sunrise (1927)
- Directed by F.W. Murnau; Writing credits: Hermann Sudermann (story), Carl Mayer
- Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, et al.
- www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/dvd/B00003CX6D/tech-info/103-2699666-0131812
- Asphalt (1929)
- Directed by Joe May; Writing credits: Joe May, Hans Székely
- Things to Come (1936)
- Directed by William Cameron Menzies; Writing credits: H.G. Wells (also novel The Shape of Things to Come)
- Starring: Raymond Massey, et al.
- www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000056NWH/qid=999497125/sr=1-2/ref=sc_d_2/103-2699666-0131812
- Just Imagine (1930)
- Directed by David Butler; Writing credits: Buddy G. DeSylva (as DeSylva) & Lew Brown
- Naked City, The (1948)
- Directed by Jules Dassin; Writing credits: Albert Maltz
- Starring: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, et al.
- www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000IYRJ/qid%3D999592095/103-2699666-0131812
- The Fountainhead (1949)
- Directed by King Vidor; Writing credits: Ayn Rand (based on her novel, 1934)
- Starring: Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, et al.
- www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6301969294/103-2699666-0131812
- L'Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad (1967))
- Directed
by Alain Resnais; Writing credits: Alain Resnais, Alain Robbe-Grillet
Starring Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi - Black & White, Widescreen
- www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1572524308/qid%3D1002343141/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F0%5F1/104-8081195-0965505
- Playtime (1967)
- Directed by Jacques Tati; Writing credits: Art Buchwald (additional English dialogue), Jacques Lagrange
- Starring: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, et al.
- www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005B1ZM/qid%3D999593212/103-2699666-0131812
- Manhattan (1979)
- Directed by Woody Allen; Writing credits: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
- Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, et al.
- www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0792846109/qid=999593111/sr=2-1/103-2699666-0131812
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Directed by Ridley Scott; Writing credits: Philip K. Dick (novel) Hampton Fancher
- Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, et al.
- www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0790729628/qid=999593284/sr=1-1/ref=sc_d_1/103-2699666-0131812
- Gattaca (1997)
- Directed by Andrew Niccol; Writing credits: Andrew Niccol
- Starring: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, et al.
- www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0767805712/qid%3D999592672/103-2699666-0131812
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
- Directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, Motonori Sakakibara; Writing credits: Hironobu Sakaguchi (story)m Al Reinert
- Starring: Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, et al.
- www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00003CY5B/qid=999594368/sr=1-2/ref=sc_d_2/103-2699666-0131812
- The Glass House (2001) [Opens 9.14.2001]
- Directed by Daniel Sackheim; Writing credits: Wesley Strick
- Caligari thus demonstrated how set design could both support a film’s narrative
- and participate stylistically in important contemporary artistic discussions.
- ---Dietrich Neumann
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- MOVE
- Compositional Form
- Spatial Strategies
- FigureField: Making the Figure & Marking the Field
- Framing: Windows and landscapes---sights and sites...exposures and enclosures
- Intellect/Head
- MEANING
- Poetic Content
- Imagery
- Stories
- Emotion/Heart
- The elements of the site rise up like walls panoplied in the power of their cubic coefficient,
- stratification, material, etc., like the walls of a room...
- The Greeks on the Acropolis were animated by a single thought,
- drawing around them the desolate landscape and drawing it up into the composition.
- ---Le CorbusierTowards a New Architecture 1923
- Architecture is the world unbounded by walls.
- ---JEF7REY HILDNER The Substantiality of Architecture (by Madison Gray)
- A film is the world in an hour and a half.
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- I revere learning because it is a fundamental inspiration. It isn't just something that has to do with duty; it is born into us. The will to learn, the desire to learn, is one of the greatest of inspirations. --- Louis Kahn, "I Love Beginnings"
I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are much more interesting. ---Paul Schrader
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