Movie Theaters' Illuminated Façades: The Emergence of the Cinemas in the Urban Night Landscape, 1920–1940
During the 1920s and 1940s, the exterior architecture of the buildings designed to host the cinematographic shows acquired aesthetic and formal characteristics that made of it an unmistakable and essential referent of the landscape’s night decoration in cities. The present article addresses the evol...
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oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article-562562021-01-21T18:14:54Z Movie Theaters' Illuminated Façades: The Emergence of the Cinemas in the Urban Night Landscape, 1920–1940 Las fachadas luminosas de las salas de cine Ávila Gómez, Andrés cinemas paisaje urbano nocturno fotografía nocturna neón marquesina During the 1920s and 1940s, the exterior architecture of the buildings designed to host the cinematographic shows acquired aesthetic and formal characteristics that made of it an unmistakable and essential referent of the landscape’s night decoration in cities. The present article addresses the evolution that this architecture had in different settings, the grammar of a commercial architecture that prioritized on its exterior configuration the use of lighting. Our analysis enquires about the importance acquired by a technical aspect that during two decades defined and guided the adopted tendencies by owners, designers and builders of the complexes as a distinctive trait of an architectural typology developed in the first half of the twentieth century. La arquitectura exterior de los edificios diseñados para albergar espectáculos cinematográficos adquirió, durante las dos décadas que van de 1920 a 1940, características estéticas y formales que hicieron de ella un referente inconfundible e imprescindible en el decorado del paisaje nocturno de las ciudades. El presente artículo aborda la evolución que tuvo en diferentes escenarios, la gramática de una arquitectura comercial que priorizó en su configuración exterior el uso de la iluminación. Nuestro análisis indaga en la importancia adquirida por un aspecto técnico que durante poco más de dos décadas definió y direccionó las tendencias adoptadas por los propietarios, los diseñadores y los constructores de los edificioscaracterísticos de una tipología arquitectónica que se desarrolló durante la primera mitad del siglo xx. Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2016-07-29 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Investigación application/pdf application/xml https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/bitacora/article/view/56256 10.22201/fa.14058901p.2015.29.56256 Bitacora Arquitectura; No. 29 (2015): Architecture, City and Light; 48-57 Bitácora Arquitectura; Núm. 29 (2015): Arquitectura, ciudad y luz; 48-57 2594-0856 1405-8901 10.22201/fa.14058901p.2015.29 spa https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/bitacora/article/view/56256/49888 https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/bitacora/article/view/56256/59703 Derechos de autor 2016 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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During the 1920s and 1940s, the exterior architecture of the buildings designed to host the cinematographic shows acquired aesthetic and formal characteristics that made of it an unmistakable and essential referent of the landscape’s night decoration in cities. The present article addresses the evolution that this architecture had in different settings, the grammar of a commercial architecture that prioritized on its exterior configuration the use of lighting. Our analysis enquires about the importance acquired by a technical aspect that during two decades defined and guided the adopted tendencies by owners, designers and builders of the complexes as a distinctive trait of an architectural typology developed in the first half of the twentieth century. |
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