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Atmosphere, Architecture, Cinema Thematic Reflections on Ambiance and Place Michael Tawa Atmosphere, Architecture, Cinema Michael Tawa Atmosphere, Architecture, Cinema Thematic Reflections on Ambiance and Place Michael Tawa School of Architecture, Design and Planning The University of Sydney Camperdown, NSW, Australia ISBN 978-3-031-13963-5 ISBN 978-3-031-13964-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13964-2 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland In memory of Nadia Tawa. Born Alexandria, Egypt, 29 January 1925. Died Sydney, Australia, 11 February 2022 To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot. But treat the goddess like a modest fair, Nor overdress, nor leave her wholly bare; Let not each beauty ev’rywhere be spied, Where half the skill is decently to hide. He gains all points, who pleasingly confounds, Surprises, varies, and conceals the bounds.1 “The day was ending in a serenity of still and exquisite brilliance. The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marsh was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds. Only the gloom to the west, brooding over the upper reaches, became more sombre every minute, as if angered by the approach of the sun.”2 All my world is scaffolding.3 1 Alexander Pope, Epistle to Several Persons: Epistle 4 (1733–1734). https://www.poetry- foundation.org/poems/44894/epistles-to-several-persons-epistle-iv. Accessed 20 February 2022. 2 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1910), 1. 3 Gerard Manley Hopkins. “Commentary on the Spiritual Exercises,” in W. H. Gardner and N. H. Mackenzie (eds.), The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970), xxvii. vii C ontents Prologue 1 Rehearsing Atmospheres 11 Alexandria, Egypt 11 Karnataka 12 Gamaka 14 Gerald Manley Hopkins, 1844–1899 16 Coogee Beach, January 1995 20 Dhurabbin Country 21 Adele: ANZ Stadium, Friday, 10 March 2017 23 A Million Windows 24 Das Fastenschleiertuch 26 Shadow 27 Sumvitg 36 Ambiance 43 Ambiguity 43 Types of Ambiguity 45 Instress 52 Circumstance and Consequence 59 Circumspection 64 Tracking 73 On the Lookout 80 ix x CONTENTS Mood 85 Mood and Stimmung 85 Attunement 89 Dasein: Being-the-There 93 Melancholia 101 Music and Melancholia 109 Atmosphere 117 Flaky, Fluffy Wadding 117 Atmosphere 128 Meteorology 131 Halo 138 Haze 142 Scenography 150 Tectonics of Cinematic Atmosphere 157 Atmosphere and Cinema 157 Immanence: Robert Bresson 159 Reverie: Alain Resnais 165 Terror: David Lynch 170 Aporia: Béla Tarr 175 Grace: Terrence Malik 182 Suspense: Jane Campion 187 Tectonics of Architectural Atmosphere 193 Architecture and Atmosphere 193 Suspense: Tympanae 196 Anomie: Kafka’s Castle 204 Consilient Discrepancy: Flores Prats 222 Anatomy of Atmosphere 231 Advent 231 Agency 231 Allegory 231 Ambiance 232 Ambiguity 232 Anticipation 232 Aporia 233 CONTENTS xi Apprehension 233 Assemblage 233 Atmosphere 233 Attunement 233 Character 234 Circumambiance 234 Circumstance 234 Climate 234 Coalesce 235 Colour 235 Complexion 235 Conjugation 236 Consequence 236 Consilience 236 Countenance 236 Crisis 237 Defer 237 Density 237 Discrepancy 237 Ekstasis 237 Emergence 238 Fold 238 Fragment 238 Garden 239 Gesture 239 Gleam 239 Gloaming 240 Gloom 240 Immanent 240 Indeterminate 241 Interstice 241 Margin 241 Matrix 242 Melancholia 242 Metaphor 242 Milieu 243 Mood 243 Pertubation 243 Porosity 244 xii CONTENTS Potentiality 244 Remembrance 244 Reverie 244 Rhythm 245 Shimmer 245 Space 245 Sublime 245 Suspend 246 Tectonics 246 Temper 246 Time 247 Undecidable 247 Waver 248 Postscript 249 References 253 Index 263
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