Roman Holiday (1953)

This study examines the effects of the city and places on people in the coexistence of the disciplines of cinema and architecture, through the movie “Roman Holiday”. Cinema and architecture are similar in terms of constructing the space lived and experienced. Architecture creates spaces based on lifestyles, human needs, and expectations, whereas, in cinema, spaces are needed in order to tell stories. Cinema spaces can be created and designed in different ways depending on the characteristics of the movie. From time to time, the movies occur in actual places where life continues in its ordinary course. In both cases, space becomes the most important part of human life and the story told.

In this study, the movie “Roman Holiday” was evaluated in the context of human-space and city relations. In different cultures and times, human life emerges and is shaped through space, and in the meantime, space continues to be an important part of human life. In the movie, while various sections from the life of a princess are shown, the effect of the city and urban spaces on human behavior are analyzed through the city of Rome and its places.

The city of Rome and its places can be evaluated by their functions, forms, and physical features. With these evaluations, numerical results can be obtained. However, in order to understand the intertwined connection between people and space and the communication they establish, it is necessary to evaluate people and human life. The main preoccupation of human-centered disciplines is to understand these connections.

While evaluating the spaces in the unity of architecture and cinema, the effects of urban spaces on human life are observed through the story told in the movie. This study aims to question the ways in which the relations between the city, society, and the individual are constructed through space through the example of Roman Holiday movies.

Keywords: architecture, belonging, city, considered, city of Rome, culture, cinema, event, experience, examination, freedom, human production of space, life, revolution, representation, space, time, transformation, urban human life zone.