International Design Programme 2009- Cinemetrics Workshop
March 2009
The Department of Architecture International Design Programme 2009
- the 10 days 'Cinemetrics Workshop' was successfully completed
on 21 March 2009. The annual programme was led by:
- Professor Brian McGrath, Professor Victoria Marshall,
Professor Jose Dejesus Zamora
(Parsons the New School of Design, USA),
- Professor Hsueh Cheng-Luen
(National Cheng-kung University, Taiwan) and
- Professor Chomchon Fusinpaiboon
(Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
- and the teaching staff from our Department.
Inspired by cinemas' visual treatment of matter-flux, the workshop
was set to question preconceptions of the digital, recast architectural
drawing for the 21st century, and testify the spatial possibilities
in the discourse of urbanism. The workshop focused on operative
concepts and investigative methods for studying architecture and
cities with digital tools. Students were first introduced to the
concept of Cinemetrics, followed by movie sessions that resonate
the idea. They then based on the Cinemetrics theory, particularly
on the directors Yasujiro Ozu, Jean-Luc Godard and John Cassavetes's
filming techniques to document the Central Escalator spine in Central,
Hong Kong to understand the urban fluxes and locate design parameters
for the site area. They then tested the idea by conducting field
studies on architecture and urban space with 2D, 3D or 4D software.
Instead of proposing a buildable design, the final product is meant
to be a piece of architectural idea that initiates further discussion
and investigation in both cinema theory and urban design terms.
The workshop involved students from 6 countries and regions
around the globe. Architecture students from
- National Cheng-Kung University of Taiwan,
- Chulalongkorn University of Thailand,
- Dankook University of Korea,
- University of Illinois at Chicago of USA, and
- Chu Hai College of Higher Education
formed working groups to explore the experience of being 'cybernetic
architects' in the workshop.
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Camera-space of Godard
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Camera-space of Ozu |
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Camera-space of Cassavetes
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Escalator Model
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Escalator Model of
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Film Presentation
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