Space Montage: Picturization Of Architectural Syntax

At the end of 19th century, the emergence of the movie let time and space,the two invariable elements unify in a controllable system for the first time in history. After we accepted time to be the fourth dimension of space, we could easily turn up to the fact that there were essentially similarity between architecture and movie, which is layout and depiction of space in the axes of time. Base on such common ground, movie (or we can say exactly that the visual thinking and expression method which takes movie as the representative) show its gigantic influence on architecture by a good deal of projects. According to the analogy of movie and architecture,we can bring the montage theories in the movie into architecture realm, to establish the new architectural conception called"Space Montage", then sum up some methods which can be used to consummate our design. This is the first level of this treatise.By analyzing the methods of spatial expression and the development of"space montage"in architectural video, we can come to the second level of this treatise: the indispensable supplement from movie to the architecture which decided by the idiosyncrasy of movie.At last, the article show us the daring imagination of a possible form of architecture in future.