Some excerpts from Alan's dissertation, "Cinema and Architecture".
"Cinema has the ability to focus images outlining specific conditions of emotional human interaction with space."
"The fragments glimpsed in peripheral vision, the context of where one has just come from; lunch with a friend at a place back down the street on the right opposite, a bookshop that smelled of coffee, the memory of the space or threshold you have just passed still lingering and adding to the scene, the breeze coming in the door behind you - these are the separating elements and point to the possible failings of the medium of film as a tool for questioning architecture."
"It has been said that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. It would be more correct to say that the whole is something else than the sum of its parts, because summing is a meaningless procedure, whereas the whole-part relationship is meaningful ... The result is qualitatively distinguishable from each component element viewed separately"
Kurt Koffka, Principles of Gestalt Psychology
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