Cinema and Architecture Week 5 The Hyperbolic City and Psychetecture
Le Corbusier Charles-Édouard Jeanneret Swiss-French, 1887 1965 architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer Pioneer of modern architecture a house is a machine for living in
Dom-Ino house
Maison Citrohan (1927) a machine for living
Ville Savoye (1929) a machine for living
Unite d' Habitation, Marseilles (1952)
Unité d'habitation
Unité d'habitation
Unité d'habitation
Ville Radieuse (1924-1933)
Ville Radieuse (Radiant City)
Chandigarh (India)
High Court building, Chandigarh
Le Corbusier as tragic figure "[...] his extreme commitment to certain ideals which he tried to impress on to an unwilling world. Nowhere is this more apparent than in his planning schemes anf Ville Radieuse."
Le Corbusier as tragic figure A conviction: it is necessary to start at zero; it is necessary to state the question. The question: A Machine Civilisation out of harmony. The solution: The Ville Radieuse.
Le Corbusier as tragic figure "The photographs of Le Corbusier often show a daemonic, glacial stare behind a wall of black-framed, thick glasses. The face is always intense, uncompromising and at times deeply tragic. So are his buildings." "Town planning expresses the life of an era. Architecture reveals its spirit. Some men have original ideas and are kicked in the ass for their pains."
Le Corbusier
Mister X First series 1983-1990 Vortex Comics
Mister X
psychetecture Mister X
Mister X
Virtuosity (Leonard, 1995)
Space in these formulations was at once psychologised [ ]. This move laid open two related and ultimately conjoined ideas: that of the psychological effects of space (in this period are invented agoraphobia and claustrophobia, as well as a host of spatial symbols for deeper sexual etiologies), and that of the potential existence of a truly "modern" space that might be imagined and instated in the present as propadeutic and instrument of change. Space was to be propadeutic, because if space could have deleterious effects, it could also, in the right conformations, heal and liberate [ ]. - Antony Vidler
Space was to be an instrument of change because as a form inducing psychological states it could potentially manipulate these states for better or worse [ ]. - Antony Vidler
This new interest, with all its potential excitement, has not escaped the anxieties attendant on all spatial experiments since the end of the nineteenth century, but this time it is exacerbated by the technophobias, the strange out-of-mindand-body states induced by the morphings and animations of digital modeling, as well as by the sense that the new space of cyberworld is less a virtual version of "reality" as we know it than a preparation for a reality that we would rather not want to know. - Antony Vidler
I see it as a complex and ramified effect of the digital erupting in the modern, one that has not yet quite succeeded in breaking free of modernist conventions, but that in its implications for our subjectivity in the face of architecture holds somewhat profound implications for our old and well-worn humanistic internalisations of body and mind. - Antony Vidler
Wh at has clearly emerged in recent buildings and projects is an architecture itself not simply aided, but generated, by digital means, whether through animation, morphing, three-dimensional scanning and milling, in a way that hitherto would have been formally and technologically impossible. - Antony Vidler
Between contemporary virtual space, and modernist space, there lies an aporia formed b the autogenerative nature of the computer program, and its real blindness to the viewer's presence. In this sense, the screen is not a icture and certainly not a surrogate window, but rather an ambiguous and unfixed location or a subject. - Antony Vidler
Inception (Nolan, 2010)
Dark City (1998) Dir. Alex Proyas The Crow (1994) Director s Cut (2008)
Dark City Sleep Dream Night Retro-futuristic style Warping architecture/malleable fluid urban space City as labyrinth Digital space/algorithmic architecture
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Dark City Discuss the way that the film engages with ideas of: Sleep Identity Class Urban space Describe the visual style. What characteristics identify it? What is the significance?
How is Radiant City/Somnopolis like the city of Dark City? What do these texts share?
Mister X How is Radiant City (Somnopolis) like the city of Dark City? What do these texts share?