THE GEOMETRY OF TERROR
More on the issue of Surveillance by Juhani Pallasmaa
For any of you who haven't seen Hitchcock's Rear Window - check it out.
Walter Benjamin"s description of the theatrical character of the townscape of Naples is an exact picture of the combined stage and auditorium in Rear Window: "Buildings are used as a popular stage. They are all divided into innumerable, simultaneously animated theatres. Balcony, courtyard, window, gateway, staircase, roof are at the same time stage and boxes."
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