Article Review
The Explosion of Space: Architecture and the Filmic Imaginary by Anthony Wilder
In this article, Anthony Wilder seeks to denote the intricacies and complexities of the relationship between architecture and film. Wilder explains this by illustrating the origins of cinematography that incorporated architecture. For instance, architecture was used in the creation of sets while filmic imagery utilized light, shade, and other features to create its won architecture. Wilder also affirms that film has been disparaged for its injurious effects on architectural representations. Moreover, Wilder acknowledges that filmic imagery is not a suitable influence on architecture. Wilder emphasizes this by adding that architecture and cinematography forges novel relationships between space and time. Notably, the synchronized coexistence of space and time in an image influences a novel type of architectural space. Filmic art prompted the development of a space-time type of architecture undeterred by the effects of reality. Wilder also acknowledges the incorporation of reality into filmmaking by using real architectural designs such as buildings and streets.
See You in Disneyland by Michael Sorkin
Michael Sorkin explores the postmodern culture of urbanism by using Disneyland as an appropriate illustration. Sorkin explores the political and civilizing reverberation of devices used by architects for the creation and implementation of a modern Utopia. The author analyses the strategies in which the effect of Disneyland shapes the broader urban culture. Sorkin likens Disneyland with the television stating that both transform what exists into that, which does not exist. This is done using filmic imagery where montage and urbanism are emphasized by juxtaposition of the cinematic images. These allows for the emphasis of utopian principles. The Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park is a suitable illustration of an infallible society that exalts utopianism through its simulation of real life situations captured by cinematic influences. Sorkin asserts that Disneyland is a replica of a town, centered on urbanism by addressing contemporary problems such as the brevity of population, crime, work, leisure and transportation.
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard confers signs, symbols, and their relation to contemporary notions. The current society has substituted reality with signs and symbols such that everything in the society is deemed to possess a meaning. He describes these by identifying the simulacra as symbols of media and culture that construct professed reality. The society as well as the individuals’ lives is saturated with such symbols such that all meaning is deemed worthless. The types of simulacra are aligned in orders beginning from the first order, which is related to the pre modern period, the second order linked to the Industrial Revolution and the third order associated with the Late Capitalism’s post modernity. Apparently, Baudrillard acknowledges the insufficiency between the difference in reality and simulacra. The author asserts this by illustrating various phenomena in society. For instance, urbanization is a clear illustration that detaches people from the real world and re-emphasizes culture in a novel, fallacious system that encourages alienation.
The New Politics of the Spectacle: “Bilbao” and the Global Imagination by Joan Orkman
Joan Orkman discusses the effect of iconic architecture on the city of Bilbao. The author does this by using an illustration, the Guggenheim Museum, which led to the increase in the number of foreigners seeking to view the interesting piece of architecture, a design by Frank Gehry. Before this, the city of Bilbao was struggling through an economic depression as well as insufficiency on its part in tourism. The use of visually invigorating and modern architecture attracts locals and foreigners. These buildings are premeditated to attract worldwide attention hence dubbed as iconic buildings. The main emphasis brought abut by Orkman in the article is the fundamental role of architecture in tourism. Furthermore, the positive influence of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao on tourism led to the creation of the Bilbao Effect, which denotes the effect of architourism. Through the Guggenheim Museum, the latent ability of architecture is enhanced to create a real effect by designing and building.
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