The end of the 1980’s saw a new architectural sensibility that challenged the prevailing post-Modern attitude. Driven by the philosophy of Derrida, architects of Deconstructivism urge us to be concious of the space we move through. Deconstructivist Architects documents daring and seemingly chaoti...

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...

"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...

Produced in Brazil to coincide with Oscar Niemeyer’s 100th birthday. Still working and speaking with an extraordinarily clarity and intellect that’s undiminished by age, Niemeyer recounts his long life and remarkably prolific output and philosophy. This included producing designs for Brasilia (bu...

The documentary covers the life and work of Aldo Rossi, the first Italian architect to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize. It covers the installation of the exhibition "Aldo Rossi Design 1960-1997" at Milan's Museo del Novecento, which includes never before seen drawings, designs, prototypes...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A discussion between architects and longtime friends, Lebbeus Woods and Steven Holl, regarding their collaboration, a four-story light pavilion Woods has designed for Holl's large-scale multi complex Sliced Porosity Block in Chengdu, China. Bonded by their creativity, the two recall their careers...

"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...

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 ...

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...

The film explores the fundamental questions that drive Swiss architect Mario Botta's exploration of space. Through Botta's personal testimony and reflections from critics and artists, the documentary investigates the oppositional concepts of the sacred and the profane that are integral to his wor...

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...

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...

Told by Charles Berling, the film juxtaposes the director’s experience as an adolescent growing up in the biggest project ever built by Le Corbusier in Europe, in Firminy, France with insights from several contemporary artists on the work of Le Corbusier.

Three major sites of Le Corbusier’s work...

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 ...

Canadian architect Luc Durand studied in Switzerland with Montparnasse Tower's Eugene Beaudoin, built numerous structures in Nehru's India, designed both the Quebec Pavilion for the iconic Expo ’67 and the monumental Athletes’ Housing complex for the 1976 Olympic Games. Now at 84, he's back in Ne...

Acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Don Freeman explores handmade homes created and lived in by eleven distinguished American artists, shedding light on a unique architectural typology characterised by a D.I.Y. aesthetic, the appropriation of building techniques from art practice, and a fierce s...

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...

One of the most celebrated architects in the world, Zaha Hadid was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004. The Heydar Aliyev Center of Baku in Azerbaijan expresses a new kind of space in the city. Discovering the curves and secrets of this last amazing achievement, the...

Roger D'Astous is one of the most important Canadian architects of the twentieth century. A student of Frank Lloyd Wright, he fought all his life to create northern architecture. Author of many Montreal landmarks from Expo 67 to the 1976 Olympic Games, his residences are sensual vessels and his c...