ARCHITECTURE ON SCREEN.

Catalog description

How do the things we watch shape our perceptions of architecture and the city? How do the environments in film and on television frame our vision, shape character, and convey themes? How are architects and other design professionals portrayed? What do they suggest about changes in the physical and technological world in which we live? This course explores those questions and others through screen history, from the earliest films to contemporary television and digital productions. Themes will include the dystopian city, suburbia, the evolving depiction of modernism, architecture as documentary subject, and the history of the city on screen. Students will explore these questions and will have to make their own short films. May be repeated for credit as specific topics vary. Prerequisite: ARCH 2303 , ARCH 2304 . Junior standing in program. Restricted to Architecture and Interior Design majors.