In a dark space: cinema and the city

The taster video for Studio One, 2011-2012, with scenes from Federico Fellini's Roma, is now available online...

For some alternative interpretations of Rome in films, see Roman Holiday, Belly of an Architect or Caro Diario.

More Fellini: La Dolce Vita (French trailer)

Further background on Rome can be found on the Studio One blog for 2008-09, although the theme then was travel, authenticity and the past, rather than the relationship of architecture and film.

Some initial reading:

N AlSayyad (2006) - 'Cinematic Urbanism: A History of the Modern from Reel to Real', Routledge

D Bordwell and K Thompson (2010) - 'Film Art: an Introduction', 9th edition, McGraw-Hill

G Bruno (2002) - 'Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture and Film', Verso

S R Joshel et al, eds. (2001) - 'Imperial Projections: Ancient Rome in Modern Popular Culture', Arethusa

D Neumann (1996) - 'Film Architecture: From Metropolis to Blade Runner', Prestel

F Penz (2011) - 'Urban Cinematics: Understanding Urban Phenomena Through the Moving Image', Intellect

K Shonfield (2000) - 'Walls Have Feelings: Architecture, Film and the City', Routledge

- Includes chapters: 'How Brutalism defeated picturesque populism: parallels in film and architecture' and 'Why does your flat leak?'

R Wrigley, ed. (2008) - 'Cinematic Rome', Troubador

See also: Studio One

Studio One - 'The Street' exhibition

Studio One work is currently on display at part of the School of Architecture's summer exhibition.

This year Studio One explored ‘The Street’ through a variety of collective drawn and modelled tasks, culminating in an interactive public exhibition of 'The Street' held at Bank St .Arts, Sheffield. The emphasis on the interaction between architecture and public space provided a rich field of study for a variety of urban phenomena and relationships.  These explorations formed the basis of the individual design agendas that were developed throughout the year.

Lucy Block - Life on the Threshold, MArch, Year 6

Dan Chen - Node, MAAD course

Tom Hudson - Re Collections of Berlin, MArch, Year 6, Pass with Distinction, Stephen Welsh Prize in Architecture

Alessandro Paladin - Officina Teatrale Malvasia, MArch, Year 6

Alistair Randall - Wootton Bassett, Military Museum, MArch, Year 6

Dan Scott - Sub-Strata, Year 5

Jonathan Shaw - What We Leave Behind, MArch, Year 6, Pass with Distinction

Joe Shepherd - Songs of the City, MArch, Year 6

Wenhao Sun - Street Island - Local Life, MAAD course, Pass with Distinction

Dan Walder - The Laundry House, Year 5

Ruizhao Zhang - The Street/Border, MAAD course, Pass with Distinction

(all images © University of Sheffield)


For further information and details of previous studios, see 'Studio One'.

Summer exhibition

The School of Architecture's Summer Exhibition opens at 5pm on Friday 17. June. The exhibition will include a wide range of project work from across the different courses and year groups.

The exhibition will remain open, 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, until 22. July.

A fully illustrated catalogue will also be available.

This will be the School's last major event at the Crookesmoor Building, before we move back into the newly renovated Arts Tower, ready for the beginning of the new academic year in September.

(invite designed by Dan Walder, Y5)

And then there were two...

My new Perspective Resources site, based on my perspective drawing lectures at the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield is now online:

http://perspectiveresources.blogspot.com/