Professor / Paris-Belleville National School of Architecture
Abstract
The present research with historical and epistemological dimensions, firstly studies the perception of urban landscape and its position in environmental interventions and also as a tool for analyzing the city during three temporal periods from 1960 till 1980; then by surveying the works in the fields of photography and cinema, studies the position of artistic visualization in urban landscape. This research is based on three groups of documents: The first group includes professional journals (architecture, urbanism, landscape) and several textbooks and dissertations; the second group is a collection of landscape design projects on which design cases have been identified; finally, two photographic collections and a selection of films made between 1957 and 1974. Photography and cinema are perfect indicants for the position of image in urban landscape via various ways such as landscape documentation and reading, developing creativity, playing a role as a tool for increasing people’s participation and also making the city readable for the unprofessional population. The study of the connection between these artistic methods with professional fields in urbanism and landscape is an important step in the understanding of urban landscape history.
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