PROFESSOR

Dawn Gilpin

STUDIO THEME

The institution of cinema as it relates to the discipline of architecture is historically complex and fascinating. Architects and filmmakers share the use of imagination, visualization, control of time, light, and movement and have learned to value design, tools, and techniques that make vivid their ideas and intentions. This studio uses precedent in film and architecture to better understand the role of the public in the design of cinema. Critically and reflectively considering societal values, behaviors, and patterns to propose an immersive experience of film and architecture simultaneously and autonomously. Buildings will satisfy the post-capitalist agenda of being on budget, on time, and functional. Film is experienced in a different scale of time than architecture but they both share the potential to be experienced and influence the individual, collectively. The project will consider architecture elements, site, the conditions of the celestial and terrestrial, as well as framing, sequencing, storyboarding, storytelling, and worldbuilding. Our society spends many hours of our everyday life in the screen consuming moving images. Reviving and reconsidering the institution of screening and staging the moving image is timely.

Site: Intersection of Hayward and Murfin, North Campus, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.