Cinema That Built More Than Stories Cinema doesn’t just show creates worlds, sometimes it builds them so convincingly that you forget they were ever sets. Legendary director K Asif’s magnum…
Prologue: The Limits of Representation One day, you decide to study architecture. You learn to draw plans, sections, and axonometrics; to make models; to understand structure, materials, and composition. Yet,…
Architecture in cinema rarely serves as a mere backdrop. While the script may be the soul of the film and the actors may be the pulse, architecture often plays the…
Le Ballon Rouge (The Red Balloon) is an Academy Award-winning French film from 1956, produced and directed by Albert Lamorisse. The film, often revered as a fantasy-comedy children’s story, is…
Cinema as Spatial Inquiry The relationship between cinema and architecture is rooted in their shared concern with the construction of space for human experience. While architecture embodies the construction of…
In the first part of Movies in Architecture, we explored how architecture already carries cinematic qualities through frames and storytelling. Just as a film uses a screen to focus attention,…
As an architect, I have always been intrigued by the thought of what our designing ability can help us achieve beyond just creating tall, high-rise, soulless structures. How can our…
“May the odds be ever in your favour” A line voiced out at every instant before the Hunger Games and peak moments of battle, dripping in feigned optimism of the…
Buildings are like music to our memory lane. Just as music can trigger a certain memory from the past, so can the architecture of a city or a building too.…
Films have long been a form of entertainment for nearly 150 years. It is a human tendency to document or make one’s mark in the world; present in various forms,…
Architecture has always played a role in cinema. From Alfred Hitchcock’s use of space to build fear and suspense, to Wes Anderson’s carefully constructed sets where symmetry, colour, and geometry…
The 2005 film adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice” by Joe Wright brings Jane Austen’s classic novel to life. The movie beautifully explores themes of societal expectations, class distinctions, and the…