Visual Perception in Architecture and Cinema, Similarities and Differences

Abstract—Architecture and cinema, the first one is a kind of art related to beginning of life and human being in this globe and the latter is the product of modern era and 20th century in addition they are the significant branches of art that virtual communication plays an important role on them in perception and transmission concepts and contents. Acquaintance with dimensions of this communication lead to exploring new ways in coherence between these two fields. Due to lack of time and turning human’s perception into virtual in nowadays life, this study can be useful in facilitating connection between human and his environment. Our aim in this paper, first is exploring and clarifying visual communication in every field then finding the common factors which can be transmit between these two fields. At the end we reach this point that architecture and cinema have much in common in terms of visual perception and transmission, expanding this connection can lead to preparing new thoughts, ideas and new methods in visual communications. Consolidating these two majors in terms of visual communications can start new areas in this field.