From the Cultural Tutor:

Architecture is powerful. It’s ability to affect our feelings and mood, our sense of place and of identity, is nowhere clearer than in cinema, where film-makers make very specific decisions about how things look.

It controls the audience’s emotion and conveys information.

But that’s the story of architecture in real life, too.

The buildings of our towns and cities affect us – shaping our emotions and conveying information – no less than those in cinema. More so, even, because we actually live and work in and use them every day.

The Cultural Tutor. Nov 1, 2022. https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1587531213648060417

Think of all the great buildings you’ve been near. The Chrysler Building, conveys strength and elegance and progress. And unfortunately a bygone age. Who wouldn’t want to work there?

Or Guadi’s Casa Batlló. His masterpiece. It’s something dreamed up from a Studio Ghibli movie. It’s the House of the Dragon. It’s the House of Bones. It feels like magic when you enter. You can’t leave there without the embers of your imagination burning.

From cinema, think of Tati’s Playtime. The drone grey of the office cubicles Monsieur Hulot observes from the top of the escalator. It’s as if Hulot, in 1967, was peering into the future.

Pair with The Architecture Of Hogwarts Castle

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