1st Edition

Cine-scapes Cinematic Spaces in Architecture and Cities

By Richard Koeck Copyright 2013
224 Pages 74 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 74 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 74 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Cine-scapes explores the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. While an impressive amount of research has been done with regards to the way in which architecture is portrayed in film, this book offers a new perspective.... What happens if we begin to see the city as a place for an embodied visual consumption; a visual apparatus or, perhaps, a system that is... Read more

Introduction Part 1: Film, Mind and Body 1. Tectonics of Film Space 2. City in our Mind 3. Existential and Experiential Notions of Space Part 2: Cinema, Architecture and the Everyday 4. Spatial Editing 5. A Shared Space 6. Architecture and Urban Form as Cinematic Apparatus Part 3: Urbanity and Image 7. Urban Product Advertisement 8. Place Marketing: Urban Architecture as Image 9. Film Advertisement and Urban Spaces Conclusion: The Near Future of Cinescapes

Biography

Richard Koeck is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Director of the Centre for Architecture and the Visual Arts (CAVA) at the University of Liverpool, UK. He is Founding Director of CineTecture Ltd, a Liverpool-based production and post-production company.

"Cine-scapes, Koeck’s first monograph, fulfills the promise of his earlier work by inverting the polarity of the dominant discourse: instead of asking how architectural design, theory and history have been manifested in film, Koeck asks the reader to consider how cinematic culture has shaped, and could further shape, real architecture and its reception."Nathaniel Walker, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review