MIM 482 E 2005-2006 SPRING TERM

Prof. Dr. Orhan Hacıhasanoğlu

Prof. Dr. Işıl Hacıhasanoğlu

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MIM 482 E 2005-2006 SPRING TERM
Content of the course
General content for architecture and cities in movies; architectural
subjects in movies; reflections of architecture and cities for pre-modern,
modern and post-modern periods in the cinema products; research and
analysis methods for architecture and cities by using movies; movies
that are based on the subjects of architecture and cities; house, housing
usage, life style and family matters in the movies; examining the cities
through the movies; research for the urban background in the movies;
urban documentary films; documentary films for architects and
architectural products; scene design of architectural and urban
environment for the movies; architectural and urban environment
design for the animation cinema.

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General content for architecture and cities in movies;
Movies are always realized in a definite environment.
This environment may be a real place or a scene designed for a
SPECIFIC movie only.
The place, space, time and people are the main elements which have to
be defined in a cinema product.
There are movies about cities just like; Roma (Fellini, )

ROMA, the Federico Fellini-directed benchmark of the Italian New

Wave, explores the city of Rome from several different perspectives,
giving it a mystical life of its own that hangs in the balance between
its rich history and its modern identity. With no real chronology.
Typical of Fellini, with the carnival comes a critique--and ROMA
tears through the city's political and religious history, critising the
Catholic church and various faces of Italian government from
Renaissance times through Mussolini's period and on into the 1960s.
While the camera travel over Rome's art and architecture and is
clearly a gift to the Eternal City, most of the sets in the film are
constructed, reinforcing Fellini's narrative imagination and keeping
viewers caught in a perpetual contradiction between reality and
fantasy, history and the present, fact and fiction.

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General content for architecture and cities in movies;

There are movies which use a defined city as background for the story;
since %80 of stories of all movies in the cinema history written for
cities (Marie, 2004)
Blow-Up (Antonioni; 1966) was realized in London and showed active
London views.
Alphaville (Jean Luc Godard, 1965), realized in the real environment of
Paris in 1965.

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General content for architecture and cities in movies;

There are movies about regions of cities;

There are movies which use a defined regions of cities as background
for the story; just like Manhattan (Wody Allen),
There are movies about streets and squares;
There are movies which use defined streets and squares as background
for the story of the movie; Notthing Hill ,

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General content for architecture and cities in movies;
Building typologies in movies, Offices

Office Space
Peter Gibbons is a noisy
office like many others, and
he hates his routine life.
One day, the occupational
therapist who was
hypnotising him keels over
dead, leaving him with a
permanantly altered
attitude. Asked to come in
on weekends, he responds
by coming in only when he
wants to, playing games on
his computer and moving
furniture to give himself a
better view. But instead of
firing him, the company
takes this oddness as
evidence of his managerial
potential.
1999

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General content for architecture and cities in movies;
Building typologies in movies, Hospitals

High Ansiety (Mel Brooks; 1977)

The story of Doctor Richard H. Thorndyke who appointed as the director
of the clinic which house “many many nerves patients”
M.A.S.H. (Robert Altman; 1970)
Movie based on a story which took place in a mobile hospital in the
Korea War.
Britania Hospital (Lindsay Anderson; 1982)

Director Lindsay Anderson takes aim at the medical

profession and its mores in this satire, which follows
the maniacal goings-on in a London hospital. The
strange things begin when the staff goes on strike. In
addition, there are angry demonstrators outside, a
mad doctor building his own "Frankenstein," and an
ambitious BBC reporter walking secrectly around (who
gets footage of that monster).

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General content for architecture and cities in movies;
Building typologies in movies, Schools

Back to School (Alan Mettor; 1986)

The story was based on the father and dauther who attented to the same
school.
Police Academy (Hugh Wilson; 1984)
This the first movie of Police Academy series.
Hababam Sınıfı (Ertem Eğilmez; 1970)

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General content for architecture and cities in movies;
Building typologies in movies, Malls

Scenes from a Mall (Paul Mazursky; 1991)

Bette Midler and Woody Allen are playing a lawyer and a psychologist
who are married.

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General content for architecture and cities in movies;
Building typologies in movies, Hotels

What’s up Doc (Peter Bogdanovich; 1972)

A story about a music doctor (Ryan O’ Neal) and sympathatic girl
(Barbara Streisand) who stay in the same hotel and change their
suitcases.
Maid in Manhattan (Wayne Wang; 2002)
Director Wayne Wang
updates the familiar
Cinderella story in this
charming romantic comedy.
Jennifer Lopez stars as
Marissa Ventura, a beautiful
young woman who divides
her time between her
precocious son Ty and her
housekeeping duties at The
Beresford, an upscale
Manhattan hotel.

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General content for architecture and cities in movies;
Building typologies in movies, Houses

Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati; 1958)

Mr Arpel lives in a home having many auhamatic machines, with his
wife and sun.
Mama Cumple 100 Anas (Carlos Saura; 1979)

A Spanish family plans a large party for the

100th birthday of Mama (Rafaela Aparicio), the
angry matriarch who keeps her noisy attitude
make all thing bad by her refusal to sell her
land to real estate developers.

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General content for architecture and cities in movies;
research and analysis methods for architecture and cities by using
movies
•Historical studies on cities and architecture by using movies realized in
real environment,
•Cultural and cross-cultural studies and analysis on cities by using
movies,
•Research on special building types and landmarks by using old movies,

MIM 482 E 2005-2006 SPRING TERM

General content for architecture and cities in movies;
movies that are based on the subjects of architecture and cities

•Architecture based movies

•City based movies

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General content for architecture and cities in movies;
house, housing usage, life style and family matters in the movies;

•Housing environment
•Houses
•Apartments
•Squatters
•Country houses
•Changing life style, family and housing

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General content for architecture and cities in movies;
examining the cities through the movies

•Time based studies: Histories of cities, life

in cities in different time
•Examining changing city morphology by
using movies based on cities,
•Examining regions, streets and squares of
cities in city based movies,
•Examining new city approaches by using
utopian and distoptian movies,
Metropolis (F. Lang)

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General content for architecture and cities in movies;
research for the urban background in the movies

•Researching on urban background in all types of movies. Obtaining

urban bacground from real city scenes used in movies.

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General content for architecture and cities in movies;
Urban documantary movies

•Special documantary movies about cities, parts and regions of cities

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General content for architecture and cities in movies;
documentary films for architects and architectural periods and products

•Documentary films for architects

My Architect (Nathanian Kahn; 2003)
•Documentary films for architectural periods,
•Documentary films for architectural products

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General content for architecture and cities in movies;
scene design of architectural and urban environment for the movies

•Designing scene of urban environment for movies

•Scene architecture of building types in movies
•Hoolywood, studios

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General content for architecture and cities in movies;
architectural and urban environment design for the animation cinema

•Animation cinema and designing environment

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