Cinema is an art form in which architecture plays an important role.

Architecture gives
meaning to the story of the film, by situating it in a given time and given place.
Cinema preserves traces of past architecture as well as future cities that have not yet seen
the light of day. It represents architecture as we know it today, but also what it could become.
Cities can be real or imaginary, reflecting a society and an era.
In Blade Runner, for example, the brutalist and cyberpunk architecture take us into a deep
dystopian society, while in The Three Musketeers the fort of Saint Malo takes us back in
time.
Architecture and film can express mixed emotions through the space they create.
Architecture helps to create the different moods and emotions in a film.
In Willy Wonka, the colorful, burlesque architecture invites us to dream, but the gloomy old
motel in the movie “ Shining” can make us feel afraid.
The architecture, like the material construction around us, is our mark in space. So when the
architecture begins to move and distort we can lose our reality .
For example in the movie Inception, the director Christofer Nolan explores how architecture
can express the idea of the dream and subconscious through the deformed and constant
moving architecture.

There are many ways of using architecture in film, but I'm going to concentrate on the
Hunger Games saga, which explores a huge panorama of the use of architecture in cinema.
The Hunger Games saga takes place in a dystopian future where the tyrannical government,
the Capitol and the president Snow, organize the annual Hunger Games, a brutal televised
game in which teenagers compete to the death. Katniss Everdeen, a young girl from District
12, the poorest district, volunteers to replace her sister. She becomes the symbol of rebellion
against the Capitol and leads a revolt against oppression.
I’m going to show you different architectures inspired by reality to film this movie.
The Swan House is a house in Atlanta, in the United States, built in the twentieth century. It
is a Renaissance-style building that perfectly matches with the descriptions of President
Snow's house.
This monumental architecture looks like many monuments and places of power, and shows
how architecture can express symbols.
The incredible Atlanta Marriott hotel was used as the setting for the warrior's quarters in The
Hunger Games.
This luminous and grandiose hall shows all the luxury and wealth of the capitol compared to
the other districts.
The Abraxas district is a housing complex in Noisy-le-Grand, in the Seine-Saint-Denis
département.
Designed by the Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill and inaugurated in 1983, the complex is
regarded as an important piece of postmodernist architecture. This almost futuristic
architecture, with its morphology and monumentality, was used to film some of the film's cult
scenes and to transform this housing estate into a combat arena.
This urban complex, built between 1969 and 1975 by the architect Jean Renaudie, is located
in Ivry-sur-Seine. This emblematic example of the Brutalist style has been used as a
backdrop for scenes set in the streets of the Capitole.
Here, architecture helps us to understand the context and even the society it reflects in the
movie.
To conclude, many architects draw inspiration from the cinema to design their architecture.
Zaha Hadid is a prime example, with her organic, futuristic architecture. Herzog and
Demeuron and Frank Gerhy too.