This studio tackled a variety of the challenges cinema poses for architecture, both in practical terms – by providing new armatures for cinematic experience - and in conceptual terms, by developing new architectonic responses to an increasingly ‘filmic’ contemporary urban condition. CODA-PLEX will delve into the cinematic, as much as the architectural, relationship between script and projection - the former serving as the template or pretext for filmmaking, and the latter its (increasingly historical) mode of delivery and final fruition. With the emergence of outspoken online subcultures, theatre operators such as AMC might now opt for genre-specific cinemas. CODA-PLEX will explore the parallel concepts of genre and type within cinema and architecture respectively.
The studio will seek outlinkages in these conceptual frameworks as fertile ground for mutating the multiplex type for the future. Developed to screen many different genres of film in the same space, the
multiplex’s modernist and generic nature needs recasting in the face of streaming platforms
and a host of unanticipated cultural and civic demands. The studio will seek new theoretical
and formal strategies for re-enchanting “a night at the movies.”
term: 4B
professor: Joe Day
assistant professor: Justin Doro
partner(s): n/a