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Museum Of The Mechanical Eye: The Phenomenology Of Perception In Architecture, Isabela Sierra
Museum Of The Mechanical Eye: The Phenomenology Of Perception In Architecture, Isabela Sierra
Architecture Senior Theses
Since ancient tines, philosophers have tied knowledge to clear vision. Sight has been deemed the most important sense to mankind. Plato said vision was "humanity's greatest gift." It is human nature to make optical conclusions, to reify, to totalize, to control. What is seen is assumed to certain because of the uncontested and unexplored optical gray areas upheld by our rational and technological culture. We solidified our ocular-centric society by creating vision-generated understandings of knowledge, truth, and reality. Architecture, along with art and film, deals directly with human existence in space. Architecture is the construction of human perception.
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Filmed Architecture: The Nature Of Vision, Theodore C. Grothe
Filmed Architecture: The Nature Of Vision, Theodore C. Grothe
Architecture Thesis Prep
"By researching the methods, technologies, theories, and criticism of motion film, one can begin to gain an understanding of these phenomena. Tha language of film becomes apparent, and can then be used in architectural discourse.
How can these methods and techniques begin to translate into the discipline of architecture? What can the discipline gain from them In what capacity can we begin to augment their affects on our perception of architecture, form, reality, and space?"