POLYTECHNIC OF BARI
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE
Academic Year 2001-2002
COURSE OF HISTORY ' ARCHITECTURE CONTEMPORARY
WORKSHOP PHOTOGRAPHY OF ARCHITECTURE
Instructors: Profs. Archh. Giovanni Leoni, Francesco Moschini
Posted by: Ivana Barbieri, Sandro Maggi
Coordinators: CEO Vito, Francesco Gismondi
meeting with
S TANLEY H Allet
"ARCHITECTURE AND THE MOVING IMAGE"
Bari, Wednesday, March 6, 2002 - Polytechnic Bari Aula Magna of the Faculty of Engineering
The speech of prof. Stanley Hallet opens the cycle of conferences, held in an activity for the School of Contemporary History of the Faculty of Architecture of Bari held by prof. Giovanni Leone and Francesco Moschini, dedicated to "Cinema and Architecture."
Continuing seminars on photography and architecture, these lessons need to offer food for thought and reading criteria with examples of famous and lesser-known films in which the relationship between cinema and architecture is more tight.
Already Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at The Catholic University of America (CUA) in Washington, DC, Stanley Ira Hallet, FAIA, is a professor at CUA in the United States where he teaches in university courses and seminars that argue on historical and contemporary relations between different cultures and architecture. Important to him are the recent experiences in Tunisia in Peace Corp Volunteer (1964-66) and Afghanistan where Fulbright-Hayes Lecturer at University of Kabul (1972), his researches are oriented to the study of Islamic landscape its urban fabric and sacred spaces.
Basing his observations both on research on personal experiences, he argues in seminars and studies addressed the relationships between cinema and architecture, producing with his wife Judith Dwan Hallet documentaries, winning several awards, offer an international survey on the film.
His studies on these topics have appeared in major international journals of architecture as Architectural Record, Architecture Plus, Faith and Form, The Journal of Architectural Education, and Ekistics IBLA, the Revue de l'institute des belles lettres Arab-CNRS. Author of The Traditional Architecture of Afghanistan, written in collaboration with Rafi Samizay and published by Garland Press, is currently working on writing his second book entitled Architecture and the Moving Image.
Detected Fellow of the American Institute of Architects for his contributions on multiple architectures and education to architecture, his architectural activities allowed him to win as many as 12 AIA design awards. He recently received the lifetime achievement award for his 25 years of Utah Chapter of the American Institute of Architects for Quad Project. His design for the own house of 1998 was published in Italy by the magazine Project and the American journal, American Journal Residential Architect.
graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1964 and a Master of Architecture in 1967, he taught for over fifteen years to University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah.
His lecture, translated simultaneously, with the exhibition will consist of three movies on the cinema of authors such as Greenaway, Eisenstein, Gilliam and the slideshow. The meeting will be introduced by a speech edited by Antonio Tempesta on architect Robert Mallet-Stevens designer and filmmaker with screenings of films and extracts from his selections.
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