Skimmed once in a bookstore, I didn't buy it. It's about architecture in the movies, specifically in science fiction movies. So no real buildings. I seem to recall it featured just a page or two for each movie, with one or two illustrations per page. My memory says the illustrations were all in black and white, but that can't be right. Maybe it's just that so many of the illustrations were from b&w movies.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Ernie
Hmmm...the cover doesn't ring a bell, but that might be the book. I'll order it and see.
Thank you so much!
Ernie
Okay, so:
I got the book Film Architectue from the library, and read it. It's great, but it's not the one I was thinking of. The one I was thinking of was concerned more with imaginary architecture, in fact I think it may not have contained any movie stuff after all, but rather drawings by A. G. Rizzoli and similar artists.
If this rings a bell with anyone, please let me know.
Thank you!
Ernie
Hello Ernie,
If you are still looking for this book, perhaps it is ALBRECHT, Donald -- "Designing Dreams: modern architecture in the movies"
--Ed
Probably not the one you're thinking of, but
Impossible Worlds (3764363177) is fun to look through.
Can't help you, but one set design that didn't see the light of day, much less black and white film, was the one Frank Lloyd Wright was asked to design for King Vidor's 1949 film: "The Fountainhead".
Warner Brothers asked Wright to design the sets, and he agreed to so do, while deliberately specifying a fee that the studio would consider prohibitive.
Today those sets would be the one feature of the movie to have survived the test of time. One film reviewer stated that the film could be considered "repulsive" were it not so funny.
Rood
The Architecture of Image: Existential Space in Cinema?
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