Date of Graduation

5-2019

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Architecture

Degree Level

Undergraduate

Department

Architecture

Advisor/Mentor

Rudzinski, Russell

Committee Member/Reader

Terry, Laura

Committee Member/Second Reader

Riha, Michael

Abstract

Mies van der Rohe designed the Farnsworth House as a personification of his architectural vision, an architectural language void of the mistakes of the past that could be taught universally. Mies’ illusory idea of free-flowing anti-space was ideologically unconnected to the cinematic arts, nevertheless the application of his design philosophy consequently resulted in spaces that were scenographic and cinematic. Just as a cinematographer establishes a relationship between the viewer and the scene, Mies van der Rohe used perspective to frame views transforming the Farnsworth House into an intermediary object establishing a relationship between nature and the viewer. The Farnsworth House manifests cinematic space as a consequence of Mies van der Rohe’s Universalist architecture.

Keywords

Mies van der Rohe; cinematography; Wes Anderson; collage

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