Elective course

2007

Architecture and film: Morphology of Body and Space #1
Course code	AS5
Department	Institute of Architecture
Professor in charge	Professor Rolf Gerstlauer Assistant professor Inger Molne
Additional staff	-
Prerequisities	Passed the 4th semester.
Instruction language	Norwegian and English
Max no. of students	8-10
ECTS credits	6

Related courses

Studio course (24 ECTS)

Course description

The Production and Representation of Architectural Space in Film:

- The Production and Representation of Architectural Space and/or Architectural Body in Film have since its beginning influenced Architectural Practice and its Spatial Discussion.

- New production- and representation-technologies further inspire and stress the understanding and development of architectural space and are used to bring forward new spatial arguments.

The Phenomenological Discussion on Architectural Space, its Nature and the Production of it:

- The first elective course, “Architecture and Film”, will set its focus on “Morphology of Body and Space”. The aim is to further understand, influence, and develop the architectural space on its own characteristics, beyond the notion of the architectural object.

Learning outcomes

Advanced design based on a current, critical architectural discourse. Individual process preparation / adaptation. Architectonic programming. Exercise in video and 3D tools.

Contents and teaching methods

The course starts with a brief historical, theoretical and philosophical discussion on film in general, and on kinetic representation of architectural space in particular.

Students will be introduced to the field of investigation through lectures, literature and a series of films and video-art. Workshops organized in collaboration with artists and film-directors, will exercise the students’ skills in the use of film/video-making tools and seek to strengthen their awareness for film as a media with the potential to influence, understand, and further develop architectural space.

The final exercise will search to produce kinetic architectural space (or spatial narratives) through a free interpretation of eight sound-pieces composed by the Norwegian jazz-musician Nils Petter Molvær. The results will be published on a music/film-dvd in late 2007.

Exams and assessment methods

Study-progression, final outcome examined by an external critic.

2D, 3D, text, photo/video/film, tool shop, testing hall.

The work will be used for publications.

The course is assessed to a Pass - Fail grade scale

Literature

Architecture/space – body & space – figure & ground - interstitial

Bernard Tschumi:Architecture and Disjunction

Bernard Tschumi:The Manhattan Transcripts

Bernard Tschumi:Questions of Space: Lectures on Architecture

Bernard Tschumi:event-cities / event-cities 2 / event-cities 3

Bernard Tschumi:Architecture in/of Motion