The invention of the movies was transformative for architecture, paralleling and informing the invention of the idea of space. A medium that allows the continuous depiction of space, the movies goaded architecture into a new sense of flow, creating an idea of the palpability--the physics--of the space. Space was no longer just a byproduct of the order of events. Animated, the rush of space could be expected to have an effect on the material conditions through which it passed. Film was able, for the first time, to capture the blur of speed much the way we--slow to process our own environment--perceive it. Interest in such distortion through attenuation has something of a history, originating in our ability to cross landscapes at increasing speeds--the view from the train or the car.
(Michael Sorkin, "Frozen Light", p. 28. Architecture + Process: Gehry Talks)
Architecture, along with music and film, seem to have done a much better job at responding to--and influencing--cultural and technical changes over the last decade than writing has been. Perhaps writing, at least as the term is currently articulated, is by definition antithetical to twenty-first-century culture. That's not to say that there aren't forms of writing that are more attuned to the shapes and trajectories of contemporary life--blogs maybe, or billboards or instant messaging--but only that those forms of writing aren't yet considered "real" writing by most people. Posted by johndan at October 20, 2003 10:01 PM | TrackBackhello, im an architecture student who is wanting to do my thesis on film and architecture, i was wondering if you have any ideas or something which would be an interesting topic to study. i would be very appreciative if you could reply to this, thanku for your time
michael gilchrist
Hello, I'm a student of Architecture doing thesis in Film City. I was wondering if you have any ideas or something which would be an interesting topic to study on Film City. I would be very appreciative if you could reply to this, thank u for your time.
Ahmed Yasser Arafat.