Date of Graduation
5-2019
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Architecture
Degree Level
Undergraduate
Department
Architecture
Advisor/Mentor
Russell Rudzinski
Committee Member/Reader
Laura Terry
Committee Member/Second Reader
Michael Riha
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
Citation
Davis, R. (2019). The Farnsworth House & 'The Grand Budapest Hotel': Cinematic Spaces. Architecture Undergraduate Honors Theses Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/archuht/34
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