CONCEPT PLANNING PROCESS REALISATION THE METHODOLOGIES OF ARCHITECTURE AND FILM

摘要

The purpose of this piece is to set out at a very basic level the steps by which film and video can be integrated into the design process. I should make it clear that my main interest is in discussing these techniques within the context of academic and speculative work rather than as part of a commercial project. The reasons for this are simple. Firstly, it is the context within which I am trying to develop these ideas as part of a postgraduate unit at the Bartlett School of Architecture and within my own practice as an architect who makes films. Secondly, I am somewhat sceptical about the use of such conceptual methodologies within commercial architecture as they are more often than not merely employed as a smokescreen for more basic and economically driven motivations. Since I stopped working as a commercial architect in 2002, I have little interest in the machinations and perpetuation of the Corporate Architectural Complex, and care not whether any of these ideas are of use to commercial practices; although, judging by the success of many of my students who have left college and have taken these skills into those commercial areas, they obviously are.