Architecture for the Screen: A Critical Study of Set Design in Hollywood's Golden Age

by Juan Antonio Ramírez

This work covers the many applications of art and architecture appearing in the movies produced in Hollywood from the very beginning until the fifties.

Genres: Film, Architecture

247 pages, Hardcover

First published July 28, 1998

Reviews

[Ondřej Lipenský · Rating 5 out of 5]

In-depth study of Holywood Golden Age film architecture. There are also few interesting photograps of movie sets, but it is mainly the text that makes this book worth buying. Author tries to establish film architecture as a natural part of real architecture that creates our sorroundings and history. By mentioning many interesting facts that are coming straight from movie design observations or memories of famous art directors and production designers, reader could really get into undestanding of what those movies in the first half of 20th century really were.