ABSTRACT
The notion of Rhythmanalysis, a new science that is in the process of being constituted, studies these highly complex processes, is first mentioned in Volume 2 of Lefebvre's Critique but is only formulated as a potential new science in Volume 3. In order to enlighten his readers, Lefebvre proposes a couple of rhythmanalytical case studies, both concerned with the urban environment: Seen from the Window and Attempt at the Rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean Cities. Jeanne Dielman reveals an astonishing regularity in the everyday pattern on three consecutive weekdays – and we can only speculate that a different pattern would take place at weekends. Exhibition is the encounter of two worlds: the modernist world and the film world. The Melvin house is the container in which the drama takes place, but the architecture itself, through its modernist vision, already creates its own fiction and vision.
