Real or imagined, houses and cities are always present in cinema. In this episode, the Betoneira Podcast hosts art director and set designer Vera Hamburger to discuss how professionals like her appropriate urban space to create illusions, capture the public imagination, and bring the magic of cinema to life.
With a degree in architecture and urbanism, Vera explains that her experience at FAUUSP was essential to her career. In her view, art direction and set design employ the same tools as architecture, such as volume, surface, signs, and symbols. Her work deals with pathways and the movement of the body through space, linking it closely to architecture and even urbanism—specifically in terms of city design rather than planning.
