2024 in Review

2024 in Review

A review of the key releases on Shelter from 2024.

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2024 in Review
  • Underwater Hotels

    1 season

    "Underwater Hotels" is a four-part documentary series exploring the architecture and design of unique hotels beneath the sea’s surface. From Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to submerged habitats in Florida, minimalist floating cabins in Zanzibar, and luxury villas in the Maldives, the series dives...

  • W.I.S.H?

    Movie

    Why would an architect focusing on collective architecture and his studio Recetas Urbanas participate in Art Basel, the highest-selling international art fair?

    Does applying his radical methodology in Switzerland, one of the world’s richest countries, make any sense?

    What are the dynamics behin...

  • Arthur Erickson's Dyde House

    Movie

    Long before Arthur Erickson built many of Canada’s most iconic buildings, he was a young architect for a family looking to build a home in the Alberta prairies. Deeply private, the Dyde family gave him space to explore his bold vision for a Canadian architectural style, with one caveat — the home...

  • High Maintenance

    Movie

    Dani Karavan has created nearly 100 environmental installations all across the world and has won some of the most prestigious international art awards. Yet Karavan is far from satisfied.

    His monumental structures are rapidly deteriorating. His advanced age is starting to catch up with him. The p...

  • Mendelsohn's Incessant Visions

    Movie

    The life of German Jewish Expressionist architect Erich Mendelsohn. The film deftly juxtaposes Mendelsohn’s original designs and love letters written to his wife Luise with contemporary images, weaving together reflections from architects and locals who use these unique buildings today. A testame...

  • Chillida: The Depth of Air

    Movie

    At the age of 19, Eduardo Chillida (1942-2002) was a gifted athlete set to become a football legend. However, a severe injury during a match saww him move away from professional sport.

    At the time, nobody except for his life-long partner, Pilar Belzunce, could ever imagine that the young goalkee...

  • One Street Away

    Movie

    Buenos Aires has a housing crisis. Over two million people live in shanty towns in and around the city. Known as the ‘villas miserias’ (villages of misery), they’re widely associated with poverty and crime.

    But inside is a very different story. One Street Away follows three marginalised communit...

  • Inside Renzo Piano Building Workshop

    Movie

    "Creativity is a miracle that exists only when you know how to share it. Our studio is a special place, where this miracle happens every day". - Renzo Piano

    Given access, for several months, to one of the most important architectural firms in the world.

    What happens inside the Renzo Piano Buil...

  • Plan for Buenos Aires

    Movie

    In 1929 the famous French architect Le Corbusier travels to Buenos Aires to give a series of lectures on Modern Architecture. During his visit he proposed an urban plan for the city.

    Since his trip and for more than twenty years he would obsessively develop his proposal, trying by all possible ...

  • The Genius of the Place

    Movie

    Geoffrey Bawa (1919-2003) is widely regarded as one of South Asia’s most important architects of the 20th century - the equivalent of Frank Lloyd Wright in America, Luis Barragán in Mexico or Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil.

    Despite many challenges throughout the years - the restrictions of building ma...

  • The Power of Utopia

    Movie

    What would a utopian city of the 20th century look like, if designed by one of the most iconic & revered architects of the era? And would it all work?

    Discover the incredible planned city of Chandigarh in India; the largest and most ambitious project of the renowned Swiss and French architect Le...

  • A World to Shape

    Movie

    How do two of the new generation's most passionate designers, Nienke Hoogvliet (1989) and Dave Hakkens (1988), use design to tackle the world's biggest problems?

    Nienke’s mission is to make the world’s second most polluting industry – the clothing industry – more sustainable. She is currently wo...

  • James Turrell: Automotive Design Network

    Movie

    This film presents the intervention of the artist James Turrell on the building created by the architect Jacques Ripault for the PSA Peugeot Citroën Design Center in Vélizy (France).

  • It's Dutch Design

    Movie

    How did the Netherlands succeed in gaining a world famous reputation in the field of design?

    A documentary about the worldwide success of Dutch Design. Top designers and international key players reveal their personal vision and explain why a small country could become so big in the field of des...

  • Dan Graham: Observatory

    Movie

    On the sun-baked roof terrace extending out of the MaMo gallery, built on top of Le Corbusier’s La Cité Radieuse masterpiece, is Dan Graham’s Observatory / Playground.

    A true melting pot where disciplines merge, the exhibit weaves a close connection to the architecture of Le Corbusier - that bot...

  • The Promise

    Movie

    Balkrishna Doshi (1927-2023) is one of India's most influential 20th century architects and recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Doshi and his practice Vastu-Shilpa has a portfolio spanning over 70 years, including collaborations with both Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn.

    The film introduc...

  • Here are the Arquitectas

    1 season

    In a New York Times article, writer Allison Arieff raises the question that the architectural community keeps asking: "Where are all the female architects?”

    A documentary series featuring the new wave of female architects working internationally from Mexico.

  • No Building as Usual

    Movie

    'No Building As Usual' addresses the urgent climate challenge in architecture by documenting the construction of Nest House—a sustainable home for two elderly individuals in the British countryside. The film showcases a collaborative effort involving 12 young individuals from underrepresented bac...

  • Paradigma Olivetti

    Movie

    The documentary explores Olivetti's industrial design from Adriano's death to the 90s through the challenges of an era marked by rapid innovations: the transition from mechanical technology to electronics, up to IT and telecommunication era.

  • What Does it Take to Make a Building

    Movie

    What Does It Take to Make a Building' is the second film in a series where Piers Taylor engages in intimate conversations with architects about their practices and influences. This installment features Sarah Wigglesworth, focusing on her socially and environmentally minded approach seen in the gr...