Selective studio course (24 ECTS)

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 elective course, “Architecture and Film”, will set its focus on “Morphology of Body and Space”. The aim is to further understand, influence, and develop architectural space through a mere phenomenological discussion of it.
• The course uses film/video as the creative tool for individual observation, registration and interpretation of phenomena – and with the aim to anew inform a spatial architectural discussion.

To get in contact with architectural/film/video theory and history related to the theme of the course. Advanced design based on a current, critical architectural discourse. Individual process preparation / adaptation. Development of own working method. Architectonic programming / development of a precise visual, written and verbal argumentation towards an architecture.

The handling of dv-equipment as the tool for registrations, observations and creative interpretations. Basic knowledge in the use of video-handling and editing software (QuickTimePro and Adobe Premier).

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.

Exercises in video-sketching* and video-editing will train 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) on video/film.

A regular course-day consists of a lecture, film/video-screening and the individual production of a video-sketch. The produced video-sketches are discussed in plenum at the end of the day. On two days the course sets the focus on the basic-use of software for video editing. The final workshop-week has its own outline.

*Video-sketching: to draw – to doodle – to paint with video.

Participation in the studio, study-progression and weekly reviews.

Handing-inn: video/film, text, photo and 2D/3D, visualizations.

The material produced by the studio will be published.

The final outcome will be examined by an external critic. The course is assessed to a Pass - Fail grade scale subject to the Regulations for Master's degree programs at Oslo School of Architecture and Design, § 6-14.

Mandatory reading

Will be handed out at the start of the semester.

Recommended reading

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

Davidson, C. C. (Ed.). (1997, c1998). Anyhow, New York.

Davidson, C. C. (Ed.) (1999, c2000). Anymore, Cambridge, Mass.

Davidson, C. C. (Ed.) (2000, c2001). Anything, New York.

Eisenman, P. (2004). Eisenman inside out: selected writings, 1963-1988. New Haven, [Conn.]: Yale University Press.

Kwinter, S. (2001). Architectures of time: toward a theory of the event in modernist culture. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Reeve, M. B., Eisenman, P., & Marvel, J. J. (1986). Investigations in architecture: Eisenman studios at the GSD, 1983-85. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Tschumi, B. (1990). Questions of space: lectures on architecture. London: Architectural Association.

Tschumi, B. (1994). Architecture and disjunction. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Tschumi, B. (1994). Event-cities: (praxis). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Tschumi, B. (1994). The Manhattan transcripts. London: Academy Editions.

Tschumi, B. (2000). Event-cities 2. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Tschumi, B. (2004). Event-cities 3: concept vs. context vs. content. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Tschumi, B., & Bosman, J. (1997). Bernard Tschumi: architecture in/of motion. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers.

Architecture; others

Frampton, K. (2007). Modern architecture: a critical history. London: Thames and Hudson.

Frampton, K. (2002). Labour, work and architecture: collected essays on architecture and design. London: Phaidon.

Frampton, K., & Cava, J. (1995). Studies in tectonic culture: the poetics of construction in nineteenth and twentieth century architecture. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Hays, K. M. (1998). Architecture theory since 1968. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

Henket, H.-J., & Heynen, H. (2002). Back from Utopia: the challenge of the Modern Movement. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers.

Lang, P., & Menking, W. (2003). Superstudio: life without objects. Milano: Skira.

Lee, P. M. (2000). Object to be destroyed: the work of Gordon Matta-Clark. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press

Image/cinema/video/space

Aumont, J. (1997). The image. London: British Film Institute.

Barthes, R., & Heath, S. (1977). Image, music, text. London: Fontana Press.

Derrida, J. (1987). The truth in painting. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Viola, B., & Violette, R. (1995). Reasons for knocking at an empty house: writings 1973-1994. Cambridge, Mass.: Anthony d'Offay gallery

Film/Cinema – history/theory

Faure, Elie. The art of cineplastic (Lenke til Google bøker)

Tarkovskij, A. (1987). Sculpting in time: reflections on the cinema. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Taylor, R., & Eisenstein, S. M. (1998). The Eisenstein reader. London: BFI Publishing.

Cinema & Architecture

Neumann, D., & Albrecht, D. (1999). Film architecture: set designs from Metropolis to Blade runner. Munich: Prestel.

Penz, F., & Thomas, M. (1997). Cinema & architecture: Méliès, Mallet-Stevens, multimedia. London: BFI Publ.

Toy, M. (1994). Architecture & film. London: Academy Editions

Architecture and animation

Fear, B. (Ed.). (2001). Architecture + animation. Architectural design, 71(2)

Philosophy

Beistegui, M. de (2005). The New Heidegger. London: Continuum.

Deleuze, G. (2003). Francis Bacon: the logic of sensation. London: Continuum.

Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1988). A thousand plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia. London: Athlone Press.

To be extended before the start of the semester.