Poetics of Space: I Hired a Contract Killer

Glossary of Cinéarchitecture

This Pascal Schoning's glossary of architecture and film was originally published in a small book to accompany an exhibition held at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London (February 2006). Pictures (click on them to see which films they are, if you already don't know), Videos (click on highlighted items) and Farsi translation is by me.

اين فرهنگ اصطلاحات سينما/معماري توسط پاسكال اسكونينگ نوشته و اولين بار در سال 2006 در كتابچه راهنماي نمايشگاه معماري و سينماي دانشگاه «اِي اِي» منتشر شده است. من آن را براي بچه هاي سينما و معماري مصور كرده ام. اگر روي اصطلاحات لاتين كليك كنيد ويدئوي انتخابي من را براي هركدام خواهيد ديد و اگر روي تصاوير كليك كنيد اسم و مشخصات فيلم ها ظاهر مي شود.

فرهنگ اصطلاحات سينمامعماري 

Glossary of Cinéarchitecture

Matter

energy before it releases by an agent

ماده
انرژي، قبل از رها شده توسط عنصر خارجي

Energy

released materiality

انرژي
مادۀ آزاد شده

Time

measures space

زمان
اسباب پيمايش فضا

Process

a causally defined continuity

فرآيند
تدوام مبتني بر رابطه علت و معلولي

Physicality

appears in the constant relation of matter and process

جسميت
چيزي كه در رابطه مستقيم ماده و فرآيند ظاهر مي شود

Dematerialisation

 the disguise of materiality through energy
ناماديّت
استتار ماده در نقاب انرژي

Memory

provides us with the means of identifycation and defining the future

حافظه
ما را با مفهوم هويت پيوند مي دهد و آينده را تعريف مي كند

Future Perfect

happens in the future while described in the present as a past event

آينده نقلي
فعلي كه در آينده رخ مي دهد، اما در آن حال به عنوان واقعه اي در گذشته بيان مي شود


 
Sensuality
perception of the world through our senses
حِسگرايي
دريافت جهان از طريق حواس



Transition
merging of one state into another
گذار
سير تبديل يك موقعيت به موقعيت ديگر



Temporality
  that which appears momentarily before it changes again
گذرا
در آني ظاهر مي شود، قبل از آن كه دوباره به صورت ديگري درآيد



Duration
defines the dimension of space through time
طول مدت
نسبت فضا به زمان



Knowledge
determines our consciousness of spatiality
معرفت
اسباب درك ما از فضا



Spatiality
memory experience of time-space
فضائيت
تجربه حافظه از زمان-فضا 

Logic
puts causality into a single functional line
منطق
آن چه كه رابطه علت و معلولي را فقط در يك كاركرد مصرف مي كند



Gravity
magnetic or sensual power which pulls or repels
گرانش
نيروي مغناطيسي كه باعث به وجود آمدن جاذبه و دافعه مي شود 

Light
a building material
نور
يكي از مصالح ساخت

Overlay

to cover or spread over or add a projected layer to surfaces

همگذاري
پوشاندن يا گستردن لايه اي با تاباندن آن به روي يك سطح

Cinema

project a physical and mental memory as narrative

سينما
تاباندن حافظه فيزيكي و رواني روي پرده به عنوان روايت

Cinematics

the projected motion force of overlaid time-space sequences

سينماتيك
 پروژكسيون (تاباندن) منظم نيروي محركي كه از لايه هاي روي هم انباشته زمان و فضا شكل گرفته اند

Kinematics

science of pure motion that admit the conceptions of time and velocity but excludes that of force

كينماتيك

علم مبتني بر حركت محض كه زمان و شتاب را قبول دارد، اما حسابِ نيرو را از آن جدا مي كند

Architecture

houses us in a mental embedding through minimal energized physicality in a constantly changing appearance

معماري
سرپناهِ ما كه محيطي ذهني است كه توسط حداقل انرژي نمودي فيزيكي، اما همچنان بسيار متغير يافته 

Projection

transport of something onto something else

پروژكسيون
انتقال چيزي به چيز ديگر

Function

uses logic in a single determination

كاربرد
وقتي منطق فقط در يك جهت گيري مشخص به كار گرفته شود 

Contradiction

that which is inconsistent with itself

تضاد
آنچه با خودش متناقض است

Images

reaches the illiterate

تصوير

آنچه بي سواد هم مي فهمد

Text

reaches the literate

متن
آنچه فقط باسواد مي فهمد

Possessiveness

the meanest form of suppression

تملك

بدترين شكل سركوب

Enlightened Space

is perceived through love

فضاي رها

فضايي كه به واسطه عشق درك مي شود

Love

one has to love to create enlightened pace

عشق
آدم بايد عاشق باشد كه بتواند فضاي رها خلق كند

Poetry

gives meaning a multidimensional seductiveness

شعر

  فريبندگي چندبعدي

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Capra Stairs

Forbidden (1932)

Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)

None of the early 1930s Frank Capra films has credited any person as set designer, and strange enough, they all have credits for costume designer, and makeup artists, but not for the creators of these elaborate sets. This imaginative architect must be Stephen Goosson, Capra's designer at Columbia and of course, an unlucky fellow from the historic point of view.

Thesis/Antithesis Stairs

Thesis:
Voici le temps des assassins... (1956)
Directed by Julien Duvivier
Production Design by Robert Gys
Set Decoration by Alfred Marpaux & Yves Olivier

Antithesis:
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924)
Directed by Lev Kuleshov
Art Direction by Vsevolod Pudovkin

Thesis:
?

Obviously a Hollywood movie circa mid 1930s to early 1940s, but I don't remember from which film I took this snapshot. [If you know it, tell me please]

Antithesis:
L'Atlantide (1921)
Directed by Jacques Feyder
Production Design by Manuel Orazi

Metaphysical Stairs

The Uninvited (1944)
Directed by Lewis Allen
Art Direction by Hans Dreier & Ernst Fegté
Set Decoration by Stephen Seymour

The Invisible Ray (1936)
Directed by Lambert Hillyer
Art Direction by Albert S. D'Agostino
Source

Poltergeist (1982)
Directed by Tobe Hooper
Production Design by James H. Spencer
Set Decoration by Cheryal Kearney
Thanks to Katty Y. for this

From Sketch to the Screen#2

Images of the day
From Sketch to the Screen
Marcel Carné's "Hôtel du Nord"
From MUBI

High Society Stairs

One Hour with You (1932)/Direction: Ernst Lubitsch /Art Direction: Hans Dreier

Harriet Craig (1950)/D: Vincent Sherman/A.D.:Walter Holscher

5th Ave Girl (1939)/D: Gregory La Cava/A.D.: Van Nest Polglase

Frame-Building: Under the Roofs of Paris

Sous les toits de Paris (René Clair, 1930)/Camera: Georges Périnal, Georges Raulet/Set: Lazare Meerson

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