Exploring the Architectural Cinema

The program started March 2014 and took place once a month as throughout a year. It has themes like EDIT, SITESEEING, STORYTELLING, NARRATIVE, SEQUENCE, CONTINUITY, CINEGRAM and CONSTRUCTION.

The introduction program, EDIT was about general thought and design forming showing examples. In the later sessions, we had experiments, studying city to come up with works through the view point of each themes. Also, discussing about an released science fiction film through architectural point of view trials of making architectural films, lights, observation from outsider’s view ( SIGHTSEEING ) were other subjects for the program. That was the turning point to start to forcus on Kikusaka Street, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Toko as our particular site. The program had more than a hundred of attendants.