Friday, March 23, 2012

Books on architecture and the cinema

Some books I read preparing my lecture on the style history of architecture and the cinema:

Kirmo Mikkola, Timo Keinänen, Marja-Riitta Norri (ed.): Funkis. Suomi nykyaikaa etsimässä / Der Durchbruch der Moderne in Finnland. Pekka Suhonen among the writers. 3. revised edition. Helsinki: Grafitex, 1985.

Göran Schildt: Nykyaika. Alvar Aallon tutustuminen funktionalismiin / Moderna tider. Alvar Aaltos möte med funktionalismen / Alvar Aalto: The Decisive Years. Translated from Swedish by Raija Mattila. Helsinki: Otava, 1985.

Donald Albrecht: Designing Dreams. Modern Architecture in the Movies. London: Thames and Hudson, 1986.

Charles Jencks: The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (First edition 1977). The Sixth Edition. New York: Rizzoli, 1991.

Dietrich Neumann (ed.): Film Architecture: Set Designs from Metropolis to Blade Runner. Munich - New York: Prestel, 1996.

Mikael Sundman (ed.): Elokuva ja arkkitehtuuri [Cinema and Architecture]. Helsinki: Edita, 1996. With contributions from Markku Komonen, Mikael Sundman, Peter von Bagh, Juhani Pallasmaa, Antti Ahlava, Jaakko Ylinen, Joona Tena, Kari Salminen, Henry Bacon, Juha Ilonen, Jouko Koskinen, Sirpa Tani, Putte Wilhelmsson, Sven Hirn, and Timo Keinänen (on Cinema Orion).

François Penz, Maureen Thomas (ed.): Cinema & Architecture. Méliès, Mallet-Stevens, Multimedia. London: British Film Institute, 1997.

Bevis Hillier: The Style of the Century (First Edition 1983). Second Edition. New Chapter by Kate McIntyre. London: The Herbert Press / A & C Black (Publishers) Limited, 1998.

Bob Fear (guest ed.): Architecture + Film II. London: Architectural Design Vol 70, No 1, January 2000.

Juhani Pallasmaa: The Architecture of Image. Existential Space in Cinema. Helsinki: Rakennustieto, 2001.

Jean-Pierre Berthomé: Le Décor au cinéma. Paris: Cahiers du Cinéma, 2003.

Kenneth Frampton: Modern Architecture. A Critical History (First edition 1980). Fourth edition, revised, expanded and updated. London: Thames & Hudson (World of Art), 2007.

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