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Urban Engagement: Social Interaction Through Urban Spectacle, Philip Gleason
Urban Engagement: Social Interaction Through Urban Spectacle, Philip Gleason
Architecture Thesis Prep
"Cinematic devices are utilized in film to distort and alter perception, layer events and situation, and manipulate the understanding of time. The translation of such ideas through architecture will lead to the development of a Cinema Center that will function as an extension of film into habitable space. The Cinema Center is intended to be a multi media experience capable of interrupting ones sense of time and place while altering emotion, and perception of the urban environment, much like ones reaction to film. The Cinema Center has the potential to energize the newly developed Boston Greenway by creating new connections …