Advisor: Otavio Leonidio
Dissertation: Architecture Revealed by Cinema: the film as a process of investigation of architecture
Defense date: 15/05/2020
Abstract
The research aims to analyze how cinema could transcribe the experience
lived in spaces and help to unveil architecture in layers other than just technical,
formal and objective. For this, it uses the short film Sizígia (2012), in which
architecture is not only an approached topic, but a fundamental part of its
configuration. The short film by researcher Luis Urbano falls within the academic
scope of architecture analysis and was filmed in the project Piscina das Marés
(1959-65) by Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza. In Sizígia, the moving image was
seen not only as a representation of architecture, but as a way of investigating space,
exploring its qualities and its narrative potential. Cinema, as a form of expression,
seeks to tell the plots of life lived in places through the moving image, connecting
the dilemmas of human life to architecture. His language ends up capturing events,
linking them to space and, as a consequence, his narrative reveals the architecture
where the plot of life takes place. In this sense, research seeks in cinema an
alternative means of investigation and representation of architecture.