Architecture Deep Dive
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Houses Lange Esters
Movie
After World War l, textile industry magnate Hermann Lange commissions avant-garde architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to design a revolutionary two-story residential home on the outskirts of Krefeld, now world-renowned as a museum, explored through interviews with Lange's great-granddaughter, the ...
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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...
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Where Architects Live
Movie
8 architects, 8 houses, 8 stories, 8 paradigms of contemporary living. The diary of an exploration into the houses and private spaces of 8 protagonists of world architecture: Shigeru Ban, Mario Bellini, David Chipperfield, Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, Zaha Hadid, Marcio Kogan, Daniel Libeskin...
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New Directions
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A documentary focused on post-war Japanese architecture and its influence on Australian architects throughout the 1960s and 70s. Robin Boyd made numerous visits to Japan from the 1950s, introducing the work of Japanese architects such as Kenzo Tange to the West via his essays and books. Inspired ...
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Richard Henriquez - Building Stories
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Richard Henriquez: Building Stories delves into the life and work of the remarkable and enigmatic narrative architect Richard Henriquez.
Based in Vancouver, Henriquez has spent over six decades impacting the landscape with small and large-scale buildings—each designed with the intention of enrich... -
Prospettiva Olivetti
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The film embarks on a journey through Olivetti's iconic buildings, spanning the 1960s to the 1980s. As it explores showrooms, factories, and headquarters designed by international architectural masters, the documentary weaves together personal narratives and archival materials. It reconstructs a ...
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Regular or Super
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Famous for designing such landmarks as New York's Seagram Building, Toronto’s Dominion Centre and numerous buildings in Chicago, van der Rohe was best known for his minimalist designs. His obsession with purity and simplicity and his adherence to his belief that "less is more" influenced the way ...
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e2 Design: Season 2
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Design: e², narrated by Golden Globe and Academy Award winner Brad Pitt, explores the complex social, political, cultural, environmental and economic issues of sustainable architecture. Traversing the globe, the series chronicles important and exciting stories of green archite... -
More than a Museum
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Through the story of the construction of the new Munch Museum in Oslo, carried out for over twelve years by a small Spanish architecture studio, studio Herreros, we discover the astonishing transformation of the Norwegian capital. What should museums of the future be like? And cities? How do we w...
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City Dreamers
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City Dreamers is a film about our changing urban environment and four trailblazing women architects who have been working, observing and thinking about the transformations shaping the cities of today and tomorrow for over 70 years.
Phyllis Lambert, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, Cornelia Hahn Oberl...
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Plan for Buenos Aires
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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 ...
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Homo Sapiens
Movie
Homo Sapiens is a film about the finiteness and fragility of human existence and the end of the industrial age, and what it means to be a human being. What will remain of our lives after we're gone?
Empty spaces, ruins, cities increasingly overgrown with vegetation, crumbling asphalt: the areas...
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Softness: Designing a City
Movie
"Softness" is a documentary about the i-Mesh material and technology created in Italy, which has revolutionized architecture with its lightness, transparency, resistance, flexibility, and sustainability, and features discussions with architects, designers, and philosophers who pose radical questi...
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GES-2
Movie
In 2014, V–A–C Foundation acquired the 20,000 sq. m former power plant, GES-2 in the centre of Moscow right in front of the Kremlin, tasking the Renzo Piano Building Workshop with its transformation into a cultural institution.
Over the next five years, the cameras followed the construction work...
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Tadao Ando: From Emptiness to Infinity
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The documentary by Mathias Brick pays homage to one of the world's most renowned architects: the Japanese "Master of Minimalism" Tadao Ando. The film introduces viewers to his famous buildings and offers an exclusive look into his work process. Ando shares his sources of inspiration and motivation.
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Brasilia: Life After Design
Movie
Located 2000 kilometres from the Amazon and 18 hours from Rio, the city of Brasília - the capital of Brazil - is a mythical place: a concrete utopia born out of the desert. In 1956 at the rebirth of Brazilian democracy, visionary architect Oscar Niemeyer and urbanist Lúcio Costa invented an urba...
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Loving Gio Ponti
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A picture of the man and the architect, aspiring painter, promoter ante litteram of Italian design who, in more than fifty years of activity, has tried it all – arts, occupations, objects, architecture and material – with untiring energy, from small to big, from the design of a handle to the form...
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Churches of Iceland
Movie + 1 extra
Immerse yourself in the fascinating history of Iceland's churches. These captivating examples of craftsmanship have been instrumental in shaping the country's architectural landscape since the arrival of Christianity in 1000 CE.
Join us on a journey to discover the enchanting world of Iceland's ...
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After September 11th: Remembering Manhattan's Downtown
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Reimagining Manhattan’s Downtown follows twenty of the fifty architects invited, by the Max Protetch Gallery, to submit their proposals for a new World Trade Center and memorial. Architects such as Billie Tsien, Hugh Hardy and Monica Ponce de Leon reveal their views on design, the urbanism of dow...
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House of Adaptation
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House of Adaptation takes viewers on a journey through the minds of the people that gave life to a climate-adaptive building. In 2020, the NGO The Global Center on Adaptation was in search of a location, to establish their headquarters. The city of Rotterdam proposed to donate a unique building t...
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Engineered Transparency
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Filmed at an international conference of architects and engineers at Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Engineered Transparency explores the timeline of glass as a material and its significance within the architectural community. After its role in the last century’s call to a r...
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The Genius of the Place
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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...
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Mies on Scene: Barcelona in Two Acts
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The Barcelona Pavilion, the masterpiece with which Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich staged their revolutionary ideas in 1929, changed the History of architecture forever. It only existed for eight months but paradoxically its image was always alive in the minds of generations of architects aroun...
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The Dreams of Others
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A reflection on the essential and universal questions of architecture through the most relevant Spanish works of the last 60 years. The documentary is a critical reflection on the role of architecture in our society, on the evolution of the architect's figure and a look at what architecture is an...