In a world that moves at an unforgiving pace—where time often slips by unnoticed—Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days offers a gentle interruption. It invites the viewer to slow down and rediscover…
Movie Name – Ankhon Dekhi (2014) Director – Rajat Kapoor Star Cast – Sanjay Mishra, Rajat Kapoor, Seema Pahwa. Maya Sarao In a world where films often rely on spectacle…
Is there a place where one can read about art, architecture, and culture, attend movie screenings by diverse artists, and visit exhibitions? Yes, there is, thanks to Arthshila. A place…
Light is one of the most powerful visual tools. It does much more than just helping people to see; it sets the mood, shapes emotions, directs attention, and greatly influences…
What changes when architecture is imagined not as an object, but as a lived story? In the earlier essays, I suggested that one way to understand space is to think…
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…