Cinematic Aided Design: An Everyday Life Approach to Architecture
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (955 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415639085 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 260 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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He directs the Digital Studio for Research in Design, Visualization and Communication. His current AHRC research project, ‘A cinematic musée imaginaire of spatial cultural differences’ (2017-2020), expands many of the ideas developed in this book to other cultures (China and Japan in parti
More than that, it is the best account I have read of how cinema can help us to understand the everyday.’ - Joe Moran, Professor of English and Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Penz casts Henri Lefebvre and Georges Perec to lead a purposely in-disciplined ensemble cast of film makers and architects to find our truths in the everyday space of our lives.' - Tom Emerson, director, 6a architects, London & professor at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich, Switzerland'In Cinematic Aided Design, François Penz argues persuasively that narrative cinema offers a vast library of demonstrations of architecture in use. His fascinating book offers some sparkling insights into how architects can enrich the design process with munda
This novel approach will also appeal to film scholars and film practitioners with an interest in spatial and architectural issues as well as researchers from cultural studies in the field of everyday life. The everyday life is one of the hardest thing to uncover since by its very nature it remains overlooked and ignored. Cinematic Aided Design: An Everyday Life Approach to Architecture provides architects, planners, designer practitioners, politicians and decision makers with a new awareness of the practice of everyday life through the medium of film. It has exposed large fragments of our everyday life and everyday environment that this book is aiming to reveal and restitute.. However, cinema has over the last 120 years represented, interpreted and portrayed hundreds of thousands of everyday life situations taking place in a wide range of dwellings, streets and cities. Film constitutes the most comprehensive lived in building data in existence. Cinema created a comprehensive encyclopedia of architectural spaces and building e