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Film architecture as a medium of collective memory: the possibili-ties of using archetypes to create narrative architecture
 
 
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Wydział Budownictwa i Architektury, Politechnika Lubelska, Polska
 
 
Submission date: 2024-12-13
 
 
Acceptance date: 2025-03-12
 
 
Publication date: 2025-03-12
 
 
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Olga Skoczylas   

Wydział Budownictwa i Architektury, Politechnika Lubelska, Nadbystrzycka 40, 20-618, Lublin, Polska
 
 
Architektura, Urbanistyka, Architektura Wnętrz 2024;(21)
 
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The article reveals the role of film architecture in shaping collective memory, using ar-chetypes. It shows how architecture can appeal to cultural archetypes, acting as a vehicle to convey deeper meanings and symbolism. The film spaces analyzed show how architecture and urban planning support the narrative, evoking emotional responses in the viewer. The article briefly refers to the theory of Christopher Alexander, whose patterns can be used to create spaces in films, with the aim of influencing the viewer's emotional involvement, while building reflection on the social and cultural role of space. The potential of patterns as a tool for designing film spaces that appeal to universal values and experiences was pointed out. Spatial patterns in films are tools that shape narratives and collective memory by ap-pealing to universal archetypes present in the human psyche. The repetition of these patterns in many films, serving to portray similar emotions or relationships, points to the pos-sibility of creating a catalog of film architecture archetype patterns or using, at least in part, an already existing one, such as Alexander's “Language of Patterns.” In addition, the article emphasizes that film space, by referring to archetypes, can influence the construction of a common cultural identity and the reproduction of the memory of the past in modern visual narratives.
ISSN:2658-2619
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