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Essay 1 - Readings - Coggle Diagram
Essay 1 - Readings
Campany -
Photography and Jaques Tati's "Playtime"
'a set purpose-built at the edge of Paris'
'all we know is he's [H] out of step with this place'
'the film has no close-ups...it's mostly shot in medium and wide views'
'a city to be inhabited imaginatively and allegorically'
'sharp geometry muted by a palette of blues and grays'
'chaos choreographed'
'a commentary on photography as a social phenomenon'
'the office blocks of Tativille were built in forced perspective (some were just a couple of metres tall) and could move on wheels to improve the compositions'
Hilliker -
In the Modernist Mirror: Jaques Tati and the Parisian Landscape
Read Le Corbusier
apparently alike Tati
split urban living into 4 distinct categories
also Bauhaus architects
post-War France massive shifts in tech, urbanisation, patterns of work/leisure, expansion of automobile sector within 'developing consumer culture'
Mon Oncle - cars a big part
'urban past is still solidly present' -
maybe look here for circles?
leisure = rural
redistributing the games
Playtime
contemp Paris policy pushing conversion to modernism
'Tati takes on the city by investigating the new physical spaces in which particular groups and individuals in urbanized postwar industrial Paris live, work, and seek recreation'
'underlying ambivalence and pessimism'
'multi-plane choreograohy of humans'
'spatial location and personal identity'
'part of a discourse on boundaries and identities'
Serge Daney says it is La Defense before it existed (business district)
'the set is a major character'
H = 'a utopian glace at how the world might be
rearranged
on a more human scale if only our perception could be changed'
pg 321 - hospital and airport interchangeable
'simultaneously reflective and transparany gl;ass'
TV house scene - we look for difference but there is none
time mixed up in city oppression - or is its refusal to be squashed?
urbanism of the ensemble
p 325 - physical boundaries break = boundaries b/w people break
Circles and Squares [Kael]
'interior meaning is extrapolated from the tension between a director's personality and his material' [Sarris]
not relevant
Hughes, "The Shock of the New"
'being random was loathed by Le Corbusier'
'its inhabitants surrender their freedom of movement to the omnipresent architect'
Bauhaus Idea & Bauhaus Politics (Forgacs)
Intro
idea of 'factory-made building'
internationalist
some saw as 'cultural erosion;
'economy of form'
'manifestos of straight lines, sobriety and rationalism'
Gropius et al - theatre of the bauhaus
intro (Gropius) - about theatre but still
'a new cultural equilibrium of our visual environment'
'a new sythesis of art and modern technology'
'the phenomena of form and space'
'the aim to create a great keyboard for light and space, so objective and adaptable in character that it would respond to any imaginable vision'
Frampton - the other modern architecture
Intro
'modern architecture in Europe was from the outset seen as a sociotechnical movement rather than a style'
trad modernism rejects the past
architecture as a 'reactionary mise-en-scene'
Toward an Architecture (Corbusier)
'a house is a machine to live in'
Structure and Play in Le Corbusier's Art Works (Coll)
'he continually insisted on the importance of his work as an artist as a means of understanding his architecture'
"Playtime" buys into the idea of categorising time - but also fucks w it bc what is "play"
Corbusier founded purism (artistic movement) - cubism +
Corbusier's never-realised imagined city: Ville Contemporaine
where does Americanization fit into this?