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1. The document summarizes a two-day symposium exploring the complex relationship between architecture and film from modernity to the present. 2. Key topics to be discussed include the potential of film as an epistemological tool for analyzing and representing architecture/space, and how architectural design is informed by cinematic imaginaries. 3. The symposium will include keynote lectures from scholars Giuliana Bruno and Olivo Barbieri, as well as input lectures from other experts in fields such as art history, architecture, and film studies.

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1. The document summarizes a two-day symposium exploring the complex relationship between architecture and film from modernity to the present. 2. Key topics to be discussed include the potential of film as an epistemological tool for analyzing and representing architecture/space, and how architectural design is informed by cinematic imaginaries. 3. The symposium will include keynote lectures from scholars Giuliana Bruno and Olivo Barbieri, as well as input lectures from other experts in fields such as art history, architecture, and film studies.

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ARCHITECTURE,

SPATIAL
REPRESENTATION
AND THE FILMIC
IMAGINARY
Istituto Svizzero di Roma, June 13-14, 2013
Film, like the metropolis, is a quintessential product of modernity. For this reason, the cinematic representation of modern
architecture and urban space have been a key focus from its very origin. Above all, film and architecture share similar practices
of the perception and representation of space: both need to be traversed in order to become readable. It was the modern
metropolis of the late 19th century that brought into being a spatial dispositif, or device, of the transitory through characteristic
typologies such as the arcades, the railway stations, department stores, or exhibition pavilions described by Charles Baudelaire,
Walter Benjamin, and others, which made the characteristic flâneur the mediator of a protocinematic gaze. Within this urban
setting evolved new viewing machines such as the panopticon, the panorama, and the diorama, all of which may be seen as
architectural precursors of cinema. As film scholar Giuliana Bruno has stated in this regard: “By changing the relation between
spatial perception and bodily motion, the architecture of transit prepared the ground for the invention of the moving image.”

This two-day symposium explores the complex interrelationship between architecture and film from modernity to the present.
It brings together scholars and practitioners from the fields of art and architecture, art and architectural history, as well as
film studies, and seeks to bring different perspectives upon the subject into a productive dialogue. Rather than asking for the
significance of built space for the cinematic narrative—a subject that has been widely discussed—speakers will address the
potential of film and of the moving image as an epistemological tool for the analysis and representation of architecture and space.
How has film been used by architects in order to explore and represent spatial qualities, both historically and in the present?
In what ways is architectural design informed by filmic imaginaries? What role does film play in architectural and urban research?
What qualities of built urban space do artists render visible when turning to the medium of the moving image, and how is this
take different from that of static approaches by way of painting, drawing, or photography? Finally, how can space be interpreted
from political, economical, and gendered perspectives? These are but a number of questions to be raised and discussed in a
series of input lectures and joint discussions. The symposium will open with a keynote lecture by eminent scholar Giuliana Bruno
(Harvard University) and a film presentation by the internationally renowned artist Olivo Barbieri, followed by input lectures and
presentations by a number of internationally recognized experts in the field.

Program Program
Thursday, June 13, 2013 Friday, June 14, 2013

18:00 Welcome 09:30 Welcome and Introduction


Michele Luminati, Director ISR Martino Stierli, Universität Zürich

18:15 Opening Remarks Section I: Theorizing Space, Visualizing the City


Henri de Riedmatten, ISR and Martino Stierli, Universität Zürich
09:45 Teresa Castro, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III
Keynote Lectures Cinematic Cartographies of Urban Space:
From Description to Spectacle
18:30 Giuliana Bruno, Harvard University
Surface Tension, Screen Space 10:30 Richard Koeck, University of Liverpool
Urbanity and Image: Micro and Macro Screen Evolutions
19:30 Olivo Barbieri, Artist, Carpi (Modena)
Il mondo come installazione temporanea. Site specific_03 13 11.15 Coffee break

11:45 Marisa Galbiati, Politecnico di Milano


Immagina Milano: Narrazioni per il design di una città sostenibile

12:30 Discussion

Section II: Historical Takes: Past and Present

14:30 Introduction
Martino Stierli, Universität Zürich
Free entry
14:45 Edward Dimendberg, University of California, Irvine
Simultaneous translation provided for all talks (IT-ENG/ENG-IT). Mies van der Rohe and the Moving Image

For further information, please contact: 15:30 Christian Kerez, Architect, ETH Zurich
Stage Design and the Architecture of Cinemas
Istituto Svizzero di Roma
Via Ludovisi 48 16:15 Coffee Break
I-00187 Roma
t. +39 06 42042209 16:30 Henry Keazor, Universität Heidelberg
[email protected] “L’architecture serait différente si le cinéma n’avait pas existé”:
www.istitutosvizzero.it Jean Nouvel and “Cinemarchitecture”

Press Office 17:15 Response


Alessandra Santerini Marco Brizzi, California State University Florence
t. +39 335 6853767
[email protected] 17:45 Closing Remarks

A Project by Martino Stierli (Universität Zürich) and the Istituto Svizzero di Roma

Enti Finanziatori: Fondazione svizzera per la cultura Pro Helvetia, Segreteria di Stato per l’educazione e la ricerca,
Ufficio federale della cultura, Ufficio federale delle costruzioni e della logistica.
Partner: BSI, Canton Ticino, Città di Lugano, Università della Svizzera italiana

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