Cinematic Architecture: A Selective Bibliography
Compiled and updated by Aileen Smith, December 2005, November 2009
This bibliography consists of a selective list of books and articles relating to
Cinematic Architecture. Those books held within the AA Library are indicated with a
shelfmark.
Books (Alphabetically by title)
Architecture & arts 1900-2004: a century of creative projects in building, design,
cinema, painting, sculpture / edited by Germano Celant
Milan: Skira, 2004
ISBN 8876240098
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036:7.036 CEL (QR)
Architecture and film / edited by Mark Lamster New York: Princeton University
Press, 2000 ISBN 1568982070
AA SHELFMARK: 72+778.5 LAM
Architecture and film / edited by Maggie Toy
ISBN 1854902466
London: Academy Editions, 1994
AA SHELFMARK: 72+778.5 ARC
Architecture and film II / guest-edited by Bob Fear
2000
ISBN 0471629758
London: Academy Editions,
AA SHELFMARK: 72+778.5 ARC
Architecture of image: existential space in cinema / Juhani Pallasmaa
Rakennustieto, 2001 ISBN 9516826288
Helsinki:
AA SHELFMARK: 791.4 PAL
Atlas of emotion: journeys in art, architecture, and film / Giuliana Bruno
London: Verso, 2002 ISBN 1859848028
AA SHELFMARK: 7.03:72:791.4 BRU
Building sci-fi moviescapes: the science behind the fiction / Matt Hanson
Press, 2005 ISBN 0240807723
Focal
AA SHELFMARK: ON ORDER
Cinema 1: the movement –image / Gilles Deleuze
ISBN 0826477054
AA SHELFMARK: 791.4 DEL
London: Athlone Press, 1983
Cinema 2: time image / Gilles Deleuze London: Athlone Press, 1989
ISBN 0826477062
AA SHELFMARK: 791.4 DEL
Cinema and architecture: Melies, Mallet-Stevens, Multimedia / Francois Penz
London: British Film Institute, 1997 ISBN 0851705782
AA SHELFMARK: 791.4+72 PEN
Cinematic architecture / Pascal Schoning
London: Architectural Association
Publications, January 2006
ISBN1902902483
AA SHELFMARK: ON ORDER/FORTHCOMING
Cinematic city / David B Clarke
London: Routledge, 1997
ISBN 0415127467
AA SHELFMARK: 791.43:711.433 CLA
Cities on the move: urban chaos and global change: East Asian art, architecture
and film now / edited by Fiona Bradley; exhibition curated by Hou Hanru and
Hans Ulrich Obrist London: Hayward Gallery, 1999 ISBN 1853321923
AA SHELFMARK: 711.4.036(5) BRA
City Slivers and fresh kills: the films of Gordon Matta-Clark / edited by Steven
Jenkins
San Francisco: San Francisco Cinematheque, 2004 ISBN 0974999601
AA SHELFMARK: 791.43(73):92MAT JEN
Designing dreams: modern architecture in the movies / Donald Albrecht
London: Thames and Hudson, 1987 ISBN 050001406X
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036:791.4 ALB
Eisenstein: selected works: towards a theory of montage / Michael Glenny
Londonn: British Film Institute, 1991 ISBN 0851704611
AA SHELFMARK: 791.4:92EIS GLE
Film + arc. Graz : 3. Internationale Biennale, Graz, Austria, 12-16 November
1997 ISBN 3950028420
AA SHELFMARK: 791.4+72 FIL
Film and architecture: Busan Cinema Complex International Invited Competition /
edited by Byeong Joon Kang Seoul: Busan International Architectural Culture
Festival Organizing Committee, 2006 ISBN 8986780046
AA SHELFMARK: 725.824(519) BUS
Film architecture: set designs from Metropolis to Blade Runner / edited by
Dietrich Neumann Munich: Prestel, 1996 ISBN 3791316052
AA SHELFMARK: 791.4 NEU
Film sense / Sergei M Eisenstein London: Faber, 1986 ISBN 057108575X
AA SHELFMARK: 791.4 EIS
For ever Godard: the work of Jean-Luc Godard / edited by Michael Temple,
James S Williams, Michael Witt
London: Black Dog, 2004
ISBN 1901033694
AA SHELFMARK: 791.43:92GOD TEM
Future cinema: the cinematic imaginary after film / edited by Jeffrey Shaw and
Peter Weibel Karlsruhe: ZKM/Center for Art and Media; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT
Press, 2003 ISBN 0262692864
AA SHELFMARK : 791.43 SHA
Global cities: cinema, architecture and urbanism in a digital age / Linda Krause
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003 ISBN 0813532760
AA SHELFMARK: PROCESSING
Hans Richter: new living: architecture, film, space / Andres Janser and Arthur
Ruegg Baden: Lars Muller, 2001 ISBN 3907078225
AA SHELFMARK: PROCESSING
Himmel uber Berlin: ein filmbuch / Wings of Desire / Wim Wenders
Suhrkamp Verlag, 1990 ISBN 351802406X
Frankfurt:
AA SHELFMARK: 791.4 WEN
Histoire(s) du cinema / Jean-Luc Godard
ISBN 2070115445
Paris: Gallimard, 1998
AA SHELFMARK: 791.4 GOD
Imagining the modern city / James Donald London: Athlone Press, 1999
ISBN 0485006014
AA SHELFMARK: 711.433.036 DON
Koolhaas houselife / a film by Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine (Koolhaas Houselife
follows the caretaker and cleaner Guadalupe Acedo through Rem Koolhaas’
Maison a Bordeaux.
Rome: Beka Films, 2008
AA SHELFMARK: 728.3.036(44B) BEK (BOOK AND DVD)
Learning from Hollywood: architecture and film / Hans Dieter Schaal
London: Edition Axel Menges, 1996 ISBN 3090698706
AA SHELFMARK: 72+791.4 SCH
Logic of images: essays and conversations / Wim Wenders
1991 ISBN 0571165176
AA SHELFMARK: 778.5:8-4 WEN
London: Faber,
Looking for Los Angeles: architecture, film, photography, and the urban
landscape / edited by Charles G Salas and Michael S Roth Los Angeles, CA:
Getty Research Institute, 2001 ISBN 0892366168
AA SHELFMARK: 91(794LA) SAL
Metropolis: a cinematic laboratory for modern architecture / Wolfgang Jacobsen,
Werner Sudendorf, Martin Koerber, Yvonne Rehhahn Edition Axel Menges, 2000
ISBN 3930698854
AA SHELFMARK: ON ORDER
New York New York: fifty years of art, architecture, photography, flm and video /
Germano Celant and Lisa Dennison
Milan: Skira, 2006 ISBN 9788876248641
AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(747) CEL
On film: essays and conversations / Wim Wenders
2001 ISBN 0571207189
London: Faber and Faber,
AA SHELFMARK: 791.4(43) WEN
Pascal Schoning: cinematic architecture / Pascal Schoning London: Architectural
Association Publications, January 2006 ISBN 1902902483
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036:7 SCH
Process: AA Diploma Projects of Jean Taek Park, Dae Song Lee, MinSeok Kim, lll
Sam Park, Myung Ho Lee (CD Rom title: ‘ Cinematic architecture: Space of
Intensities, after-film: How to create uncertainty of Times in Sequence of
Splashes’
Seoul: Spacetime Publishers, 2007 ISBN 9788955920871
AA SHELFMARK: 72:37(07) PAR (BOOK AND CD-ROM)
Projected cities / Stephen Barber
London: Reaktion, 2002 ISBN 186189127X
AA SHELFMARK: 791.43:711.433 BAR
Psyche and the arts: Jungian approaches to music, architecture, literature,
painting and film / edited by Susan Rowland
London; New York: Routledge,
2008
ISBN 9780415438360
AA SHELFMARK: 7.01:159.9 row
Screening the city / edited by Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice London: Verso,
2003 ISBN 1859844766
AA SHELFMARK: 791.43:711.433 SHI
Tableaux pour le cinema / Jean-Baptiste Marot Paris, 2001
AA SHELFMARK: 72.034(44P):791.4 MAR
Walls have feelings: architecture, film and the city / Katherine Shonfield
London: Routledge, 2000 ISBN 0415235421
AA SHELFMARK: 778.5:72:711.4 SHO
Journal Articles (Chronologically by year and month)
2009
‘Eccentri-city; Architects: Office for Metropolitan Archtecture’ / article by Stefano
Casciani
in Domus no.927 July/August 2009 / p.118-121 (text in
Italian+English)
‘A machine for making publicity; Architects: Office for Metropolitan Architecture’ /
article by Edwin Heathcote (mobile pavilion for the Prada Foundation which
can be a cinema, gallery or fashion venue)
in Icon no.073 July 2009 / p.54-60
‘The image of architecture’ / article by Vicky Richardson and others
in Blueprint no.279 June 2009 / p. 19, 29-33, 42-46, 50-62
‘You can roll; Architects: OMA-Rem Koolhaas’ / article by Justin McGuirk
(mobile pavilion for the Prada Foundation can be a cinema, gallery or fashion
venue)
in
Icon no.072 June 2009 / p.49
‘Transformable Prada, Seoul, Coree de Sud (Prada Transformer, Seoul, South
Korea); Architecture OMA / Rem Koolhaas
in
Moniteur Architecture AMC no.188 May 2009 / p.106-111
‘From Double Indemnity to Blade Runner, LA’s Bradbury Building forms the
quintessential film noir backdrop’ / article by Edwin Heathcote
in
Icon no.070 April 2009 / p.29
‘Space-age screen idol architecture / article by Steve Parnell
in
Architects’ Journal vol.229 no.10 March 19, 2009 / p.45-47
2008
‘Film: Man on Wire, High Wire’ / article by Gwen Webber (review of two films
that focus on tightrope walking between high buildings)
in
Blueprint no.272 November 2008 / p.103
‘Cinemarchitecture: explorations into the scopic regime of architecture’ / article
by Nik Nikolov
in Journal of Architectural Education vol.62 no.1 September 2008 /
p.41-45
‘Process: action which continues and progresses’ / article by Kelley Cheng and
others
in Singapore Architect no.245 June/July 2008 / p.15, 54, 56-113,
124-149
‘Performance / architecture ‘/ article by George Dodds and others
in Journal of Architectural Education vol.61 no.4 May 2008 / p.383, 131-135
‘Interview: Peter Greenaway’ / article by Caroline Roux
in Blueprint no.265 April 2008 / p.52-56
‘Filming in Outer Space’ / article by Marko Jobst (looks at director Wim
Wenders’ use of spatial story telling)
in Architects’ Journal vol.227 no.5 February 7, 2008 / p.46-47
Projects and projections’ / article by Kester Rattenbury (reviews the latest in a
series of Royal College of Art talks on the crossover between film and
architecture)
In Building Design no.1803 January 25, 2008 / p.22-23
2007
‘Architecture and film – or, what I learned from the movies’ / article by Gemma
Tipton
in
Architecture Ireland no.231 October 2007 / p.23-24
2006
‘Media and the city’ / article by Donlyn Lyndon and others
in Places vol.18 no.2 Summer 2006 / p.3-51
‘The great escape’ / article by Peter Kelly (exhibition devised by Pascal
Schoning at the Architectural Association)
in Blueprint no.240 March 2006 / p.35
‘Zaha Hadid pours her ideas of fluid architecture into concrete and glass at the
cinematic Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg, Germany; Architects: Zaha Hadid
Architects’ / article by Clifford A Pearson
in Architectural Record vol.194 no.2 February 2006 / p.70-81
‘What is cinematic architecture?’
in RIBA Journal vol.113 no.1
January 2006 / p.7
‘Space in time: filming architecture’ / article by Murray Grigor (examines the
portrayal of architecture in film and television)
in Ptah no.1 2006 / p.49-53
2005
‘Malicious houses: animation, animism, animosity in German architecture and
film – from Mies to Murnau’ / article by Spyros Papapetros
in Grey Room no.20 Summer 2005 / p.6-37
‘Concept planning, process realization: the methodologies of architecture and
film’ / article by Nic Clear
in Architectural Design vol.75 no.4 July/August 2005 / p.104-109
2004
‘City of Angles’ / article by Gary Indiana
in Artforum International vol.42 no.9 May 2004 / p.36
2003
‘Baffling archaeology: the strange gravity of Gordon Matta-Clark’s experienceoptics’ / article by Stephen Walker
in Journal of Visual Culture vol.2 no.2 August 2003 / p.161-185
‘Beau jest’ / article by Liane Lefaivre (exhibition at the Netherlands Architecture
Institute on the cinematic designer Jacque Lagrange who worked with director
Jacques Tati)
in Architecture (New York) vol.92 no.3 March 2003/ p.28
2002
‘Urban mobility and cinematic visuality: the screens of Los Angeles – endless
cinema or private telematics’ / article by Anne Friedberg
in Journal of Visual Culture vol.1 no.2 August 2002 / p.183-204
‘Cinema e citta [Cityscape and fiction]’ / article by Carlo Paganelli
in Arca no.172 July 2002 / p.2-5
2001
‘2001: a space odyssey’ / article by Natalie King (the work of artist David
Noonan is discussed, including space-station architecture, with a nine-sided set
design…)
in Art and Australia vol.38 no.3 2001 / p.434-441
2000
‘Van Nest Polglase and the modern movie set: a pioneer who changed the
cinematic landscape’ / article by Donald Albrecht (producing modern design,
and avant-garde architecture in films)
in Architectural Digest vol.57 no.4 April 2000 / p.158-171
‘Cinema and the city’ / article by Nezar Alsayyad, and others
in Built Environment vol.26 no.4 2000 / p.266-330
‘Fantastic spatial combinations in film’ / article by Karin Damrau
in Architectural Design, 70(1) January 2000 / p.58-61
‘Architecture & film 2’ / article by Peter Lyssiotis and others
in AD Profile 142: Architectural Design vol.70 no.1 January 2000 /
p.6-96
1998
‘Cityscapes II: 113 article special issue’ (explores film and video in relation to
architecture and urban space)
in Wide Angle vol.20 no.3 July 1998 / p.1-221
‘Quick space in real time. Deel 2: Het bewegend oppervlak [Quick space in real
time. Part 2: The moving surface]’ / article by Ole Bouman (the animation of
the architectural object)
in Archis no.5 May 1998 / p.62-65
‘Setting the scene: production designers’ cinematic sources in New York, Los
Angeles and Budapest’ / article by Avis Berman (special issue on movies and
design)
in Architectural Digest vol.55 no.4 April 1998 / p.40+
‘Itinerario Domus: 141 [Domus itinerary: 141]’ Trent’ anni dopo: la citta nel
cinema di fantascienza [Thirty years later: the city in science fiction films]’ /
article by Rosa Baldocci and Luigi Spinelli
in Domus no.800 January 1998 / p.101-108 (text in Italian+English)
1997
‘Hyper-cinematic architecture’ / article by Stephen Perrella
in Columbia University. Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and
Preservation. Newsline vol.10 (1) Fall 1997 / p.5
1996
‘Film-Architektur [Film architecture]’
in Bauwelt vol.87 no.30 August 9, 1996 / p.1704-1705 (text in
German)
‘Architecture: Richard Neutra’s Hollywood’ / article by Thomas S Hines
in Architectural Digest vol.53 April 1996 / p.64+
‘Body language: an architectural approach to performance’ (the work of Marc J
Hawker and other of Movement Architecture Performance, a multidisciplinary
group working at the crossroads of architecture, installation and film)
in World Architecture no.45 April 1996 / p.68-71
‘Kinoarchitektur [Cinema architecture]’ / article by Christoph Bignens, and others
in Kunst & Architektur in der Schweiz vol.47 no.3 1996 / p.246-325
(text in German, summaries in French+Italian)
1995
‘Collaborating on celluloid’ / article by Demetrios Matheou
in Architects’ Journal vol.201 no.16 April 20, 1995 / p.22-23
‘Cinetecture: Versuch einer Annaherung und Auseinandersetzung zwichen
Architektur und Film [Cinematecture: attempt at an approach and examination
between architecture and film]’ / article by Helmut Weihsmann
in Architektur und Bauforum vol.28 no.169 1995 / p.40-44
1994
‘Architecture and film / Maggie Toy, and others
in Architectural Design vol.64 November/December 1994 / p.6-96
‘Film und Architektur [Film and architecture]’ / article by Benedikt Hotze and
others
in Bauwelt vol.85 no.9 February 25, 1994 / p.400-423 (text in
German)
1993
‘Cinematic architecture and architectural cinema’ / article by Neal I Payton
(discusses the work of Sergei Eisenstein)
in Arcade, 14 (1) Winter 1993 / p.28-29
1992
‘Designs on the body: film/architecture/writing’ / article by David Wills
in Assemblage no.19 December 1992 / p.96-105
‘Architektur und Film [Architecture and the cinema]’ / article by Patrick
Devanthery, and others
in Archithese vol.22 no.5 September/October 1992 / p.14-82 (text
in German)
1991
‘L’Architecture mange au mythe [Architecture and film]’ / article by Francis
Rambert
in D’Architectures no.19 October 1991 / p.46-47 (text in French)
1990
‘Storbyen I biografens mroke: om filmen, arkitekturen og byens poetic [The
metropolis in the darkness of the cinema: on film, architecture and the poetics of
the urban]’ / article by Carsten Thau
in Skala no.22 1990 / p.28-35 (text in Danish+English)
1989
‘Design for dreaming: film and architecture’ / article by Leon Van Schaik
in Film Comment vl.25 March/April 1989 / p.28-30+
1987
‘La velocita…la notte [Speed…night]’ / article by Christiane Louis
(Rob Mallet-Stevens’ architecture for the film ‘L’Inhumaine’, 1924)
in Domus no.689 December 1987 / p.80-84, xxii (text in
Italian+English)
‘Real scenes: imagined architecture’ / article by Rosanna Liebman, and others
in Modulus: the University of Virginia School of Architecture Review
vol.18 1987 / p.1-136
1986
‘”Brazil”: the architecture’ / article by Pilar Viladas
in Progressive Architecture vol.67 no.3 March 1985 / p.21-22
Websites
www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/AAIS.htm
www.bfi.org.uk
Compiled and updated by Aileen Smith, Deputy Librarian
December 2005, updated November 2009