In one part, art theorist and historian Alfons Puigarnau gives lectures that uncover different design strategies through formal composition analysis of the elements created by Hitchcock. At the same time, architect Ignacio Infiesta develops the practical part of the course, which is based on creating graphic representations that embody the idea of suspense in architectural space.Īrchitecture and Suspense: An Added Emotion for Designing The course is composed of two complementary sections. For many years, the School of Architecture at UIC has been making efforts to implement a practical component to all the classes that fall under the Área de Pensamiento (Thought Department) with a curriculum that can teach students the immediate usefulness of theory in an architect's own design process. Traditionally, architecture courses have been divided into two types: those that offer a more technical approach to the profession and those with a theoretical focus.

Learn more about the work of the students at the School of Architecture UIC after the break. In fact, Hitchcock always emphasized the visual over the dialogue. It's part of an analogy between the camera lens, which uses light, and the architect's pencil, which makes use of outlines.

Geared for third year architecture students, this class studies the film director's vision as if it were one of the instruments guiding an architect's design. In the following analysis by the class's two professors - art theorist and historian Alfons Puigarnau and architect Ignacio Infiesta- space is thought of as scenography, and the visual strategy is analyzed in relation to the script and the soundtrack with the intention of creating a deliberate atmosphere of suspense.

Since the 2007-2008 academic year, the Ethics class at the School of Architecture (UIC Barcelona, Spain) has analyzed the cinematographic works of Alfred Hitchcock through the lens of architectural planning.

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