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El espacio psicoplástico de Josef Svoboda

the intentioned framing

art, photography, music, architecture

El artículo explora el trabajo del escenógrafo checo Josef Svoboda, centrando la atención en su interés por integrar el teatro y las imágenes en movimiento. Se analizan diversas escenografías desarrolladas entre 1950 y 1970 particularmente concebidas con este propósito, integrando en muchos casos tecnologías creadas por el propio Svoboda, innovadoras en su momento, y que hoy en día se han convertido en habituales.

La representación del límite en El cielo sobre Berlín de Wim Wenders

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Pensamiento, cinema, architecture

El artículo analiza cómo relata Wim Wenders la ciudad dividida en su película El cielo sobre Berlín (1987), estudiando qué mirada ejerce sobre el límite que construye la coexistencia forzada de dos ciudades, cómo nos traslada la realidad de una ciudad dividida por una frontera física e ideológica, qué localizaciones de la ciudad selecciona, qué actores escoge como vehículo para narrar su historia, y qué relaciones mantienen los mismos con el espacio urbano

Diccionario analógico. Cine y arquitectura.

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Pensamiento, art, photography, cinema, architecture

El cine y la arquitectura comparten una historia de encuentros. El séptimo arte ha necesitado de la arquitectura, del marco construido, como telón de fondo de las acciones desarrolladas en la pantalla. El cine ha permitido establecer una mirada diferente sobre el territorio artificialmente construido en el que los hombres habitamos, una mirada subjetiva, intencionada y distante. El diccionario aborda la posibilidad de diseccionar intencionadamente el trabajo del arquitecto y del cineasta mediante un posible conjunto de términos comunes.

Magritte. Words, images, cinema and architecture

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Pensamiento, art, cinema, architecture

René Magritte published « Les mots et les images » in 1929. The architecture in his paintings and his cinematographic experiences are inspired by this hieroglyphic of multiple readings.

Absolutely on Music. Conversations.

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Pensamiento, art, music, cinema, architecture

This text was born as a personal commentary to a rich two-way dialogue established between the writer Haruki Murakami and the musician Seiji Ozawa in their book Absolutely on Music. Conversations. Along the way, some more interlocutors fictitiously joined the conversation.

Georges de La Tour in Tous les matins du monde

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art, photography, cinema, architecture

Alain Corneau recognizes the inspiration in the work of the baroque painters Lubin Baugin and Georges de La Tour when studying the composition of certain frames and the intimate treatment of light in the film Tous les matins du monde, released in 1981.

The false return: archeographies of Elevator to the Gallows.

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cinema, architecture

Based on a strictly visual analysis of the film's images, the article studies the possibility of tracing a possible graphic reconstruction of the spaces used during the shooting of Ascenseur pour l'échafaud [Elevator for the Scaffold, Louis Malle, 1958].

Godard in the Villa Malaparte

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cinema, architecture

In 1963, six years after the death of its owner and the same year of the death of the architect Adalberto Libera, Jean Luc Godard chooses the Malaparte house for his film Le Mepris, based on a novel by the Roman writer Alberto Moravia. This text is an excerpt from the article Tres [+1] personajes en busca de terraza, published in 2009 in the book CASA x CASA, in which the filming in the house is analysed.

Read it and pass it on (Josep Quetglas, 1995)

Pensamiento, architecture

I don't know if I'll know how to explain it well. More than a reason is an instinct. It is an impulse, which makes you want to learn, to know with anger. I think that without this point of irritation, of intransigence, of hate, there is no learning.

Ozu’s House

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cinema, architecture

The architect Marta Peris Eugenio has just published a revealing document about one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century and, in addition, one of the most interesting to architects who approach the cinema as more than just entertainment: La casa de Ozu [Ozu’s house]. A book that, dodging the historical-documentary point of view that characterizes research in other disciplines, works from the particular perspective of the designer, with a professional look related to the existing with a certain greed for appropriation, a more technical than historical curiosity, interested in unveiling the way in which the problems were solved from the logic of the project, analyzing the visual and constructive decisions adopted to build the film.

The single look. An architect thinks the cinema

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art, cinema, architecture

Abada Editores published in January 2019 my book La mirada única. Un arquitecto piensa el cine [The single look. An architect thinks the cinema]. Juan Deltell Pastor.

Cinema and Architecture. Extracts.

cinema, architecture

Cinema and architecture require the same glaze, the same kind of reception. Walter Benjamin.

movie posters & no-movie posters

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cinema, architecture

NO-MOVIE POSTERS is much more than an allegory; it is a love song to cinema, to its promotional posters, to sketching, to photography and to those untold stories that want to fly but don’t have wings.

JackBackPack_Ruptura Silenciosa

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cinema, architecture

The magazine JACK, initially managed by the Portuguese research group Ruptura Slenciosa, and currently published under the auspices of the Jackbackpack project, is one of the few publications that seriously analyses the relationship between cinema and architecture. The second issue has been published recently.

The seduction of the Long take

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art, cinema, architecture

Many artists of very diverse fields have felt the attraction of including in their works a Long Take, a formal resource always difficult to carry out. The Rope [Alfred Hitchcock, 1948], Touch of Evil [Orson Welles, 1957] or Der Lauf der Dinge [Peter Fischli and David Weis] are good examples of this.

The false city. Urban space acting

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cinema, architecture

The cinema has created a new way of recognizing the city. Cinema can even reinvent the existent city, through the foreign and timeless gaze with which every filmmaker works. Watching is at once to know and to decide, two practices closely linked to the human condition. The cinema, in some way, has taught us to look at our cities from a different perspective, building in our minds a false memory of the urban spaces that it shows us.

Mies and Rothko. Report of a [dis]agreement.

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art, architecture

If a thing is worth doing once, it is worth doing over and over again – exploring it, probing it, demanding by its repetition that the public look at it.

Gould and Monsaingeon. Form, structure and method.

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art, music, architecture

A Toronto hotel witnessed in July 1972 the first meeting between Glenn Gould and Bruno Monsaingeon. The fruitful friendship developed between them over 10 years left us an important set of audio-visual documents and written texts, essentials to understand the creative process of the pianist, undoubtaly giving extrapolable keys to other creative fields such as architecture.

Jeanne Moreau and Miles Davis. An unforgettable night.

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music, cinema, architecture

No longer possible to meet Jeanne Moreau on Boulevard Haussmann. The same Paris that gave birth to her testified last July 31th the silent and domestic closing of her enigmatic and sad look. Miles Davis had been born two years before her, far away. His gaze was also sad, but his death was not silent, rather angry, as it was all his life. Both shared an unforgettable night.

Cinema and Architecture

the intentioned framing

cinema, architecture

Cinema and architecture demand the same look, the same kind of reception.

Abstracció en arquitectura: una definición (2000)

art, architecture

The abstract procedure diverts the architectural work towards the syntactic side, giving priority to the rules of formal construction of the object itself; the interest is then shifted from the elements to the relationships established between them and to the principles of composition that regulate them. read more

Mary Ellen Bute

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music, cinema, architecture

The American artist Mary Ellen Bute (1906-1983) is today recognized as a pioneer of animation films, especially in the field of so-called visual music.

Order and Form (1955)

art, architecture

A Form emerges from the structural elements inherent in the form. A dome is not conceived when questions arise how to build it.

Obras maestras (Livio Vacchini, 2009)

architecture

Todo lo que conozco proviene de mi trabajo. Conozco sólo lo que sé hacer. El hacer es mi única fuente de certidumbre. No tengo amor por el saber, pues ése es el presupuesto de mi ignorancia, pero sí por conocer, que, en cambio, representa mi posibilidad.

Richard Neutra and Josef von Sternberg

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cinema, architecture

Richard Neutra designs and builds between 1934 and 1935 a house for the filmmaker Josef von Sternberg, few years after he premiered his famous film Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel, 1930). Alejandro de la Sota builds in 1972 a home for the Guzmán family. Both buildings have been demolished, at different times but in very similar circumstances.

Sabina’s travel

architecture

Sabina, una joven y atractiva fisioterapeuta y profesora de yoga a la que la vida siempre le ha sonreído lleva una existencia demasiado cómoda: abundante dinero familiar, un cómodo trabajo con excesivo tiempo libre, amoríos y fiestas frecuentes, salud inmejorable y todo tipo de comodidades. [Selección de trabajos de estudiantes de la asignatura Proyectos 2, Taller 5, Escuela técnica superior de Arquitectura de Valencia]

Spatial Bodies (2016)

art, cinema, architecture

Stefan Larson, Swedish artist residing in Otsu (Japan) and creator of the AUJIK artistic movement, transforms Osaka into a living organism in one of his latest multimedia projects (Spatial Bodies, 2016).

Guido Crepax: Valentina’s architect

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art, comic, music, cinema, architecture

I like the game of the double life, the world of fantasy where anything can happen. The beauty of the fantasy would not be the one that it is without the other side of the coin, the reality.

Federico Babina: Archidirector

cinema, architecture

The Italian architect and illustrator Federico Babina has imagined in one of his collections of drawings, entitled Archidirector, a series of 27 imaginary houses inspired by renowned film directors.

Amalienburg’s seduction

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art, cinema, architecture

The Amalienburg hunting pavilion, and in particular its Spiegelsaal [Hall of Mirrors], has been source of inspiration for many works of very different creative disciplines.

The architect Stanley Kubrick. Frank Alexander house.

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cinema, architecture

Stanley Kubrick uses two different houses, the Jaffe House of the TEAM 4 and the New House of Roy Stout and Patrick Litchfield, for the shooting of one of the most impressive sequences of A Clockwork Orange, the domestic assault of the writer Frank Alexander and his wife.

AVANCA 2016 FILM FESTIVAL

cinema, architecture

The price for the best feature film at the 20th film festival AVANCA 2016 has been awarded to the film Enclave of the Serbian filmmaker Goran Radovanovic, also awarded in 2011 with the same price.

François Truffaut In Lisbon. La Peau Douce (1964)

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cinema, architecture

François Truffaut films in Lisbon the beginning of La Peau Douce (1964). It’s analysed here the possibility of a graphic reconstruction of the Lisbon fragment sets, exclusively through movie images. (Abstract of the paper presented at the International Conference AVANCA CINEMA 2016 July 28th)

Jean Cocteau in Les Carrières de Lumières

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cinema, architecture

The privilege of the cinema is that it allows many people to dream the same dream together showing us, in addition, with the rigor of realism, the phantoms of unreality. In short, it is an admirable poetry vehicle.

MAE+CINE

cinema, architecture

MAE+CINE: Architecture behind the screen

Petit Pierre

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art, architecture

Pierre Avezard, illiterate suffering serious illnesses since birth, spent forty years of his life to retrieve useless material from dumping sites for building a dream, with the only help of his hands: a huge and magical animated installation that today it is possible to visit at La Fabuloserie museum.

Art, taste and judgement (2008)

architecture

The aesthetic pleasure mobilizes knowledge instruments, the imagination, and the understanding, and is linked to the recognition of the form; in other words, it involves an aesthetic judgment. read more

Viola’s comission

architecture

"Fue el 15 de Junio de 1767 cuando Cosimo Piovasco di Rondó, mi hermano, se sentó por última vez entre nosotros. Lo recuerdo como si fuera hoy. Estábamos en el comedor de nuestra villa de Ombrosa, las ventanas enmarcaban las tupidas ramas del gran acebo del parque. Era mediodía, y nuestra familia, siguiendo una antigua tradición, se sentaba a la mesa a esa hora, pese a que ya cundía entre los nobles la moda, llegada de la poca madrugadora Corte de Francia, de almorzar a media tarde. Soplaba un viento del mar, recuerdo, y se movían las hojas." Selección de trabajos de estudiantes del Taller 5 de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Valencia, resolviendo un encargo realizado por Viola, la hermana de Cósimo. (Curso 2014-2015)

the architecture of Karl Blossfeldt

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photography, architecture

The plant may be described as an architectural structure, shaped and designed ornamentally and objectively. Compelled in its fight for existence to build in a purposeful manner, it constructs the necessary, practical units for its advancement, governed by the laws familiar to every architect, and combines practicality and expediency in the highest form of art.

Anish Kapoor chez Le Corbusier

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art, architecture

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Le Corbusier’s death (1965), La Tourette convent houses from 10 September 2015 until 3 January 2016 the work of the Indian artist Anish Kapoor (Bombay, 1954), an interesting dialogue between contemporary art and modern architecture.