In Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality Portugal's renowned architect reviews his work with architectural historian, Kenneth Frampton as they tour fifteen projects, including the Serralves Museum and the Aveiro University Library. Siza discusses his approach to architecture with Frampton, explaining...

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Even after the terrible times the kingdom has lived through, with Pol Pot and the regime of the Khmer Rouge, this land of smiles is still full of unsuspected riches.

What's handmade, historic, and colorful and varies in patterns to infinity? It's right under your feet: the cement tiles. Bright, practical, and in the attic, it's a clever makeover at low cost.

A documentary series on creative processes, shot in Sala Beckett, Barcelona. Starring architects Flores & Prats, and with special collaborations by Curro Claret, Antoni Miralda, Soraya Smithson, Sergi Belbel and Toni Casares.

Adolf Loos was one of the pioneers of European Modernist architecture. His vehement turn against ornamentation on buildings triggered a controversy in architectural theory. The development of his “spatial plan” launched a new way of thinking about spaces to be built. His houses, furniture for sho...

50 years after her grandfather and grandmother picked a design out of the book, Ballina pharmacist Sarah is the new proud owner of her childhood bungalow, which she plans to transform into the tranquil hideaway of her dreams.

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...

Leaving an urban life to settle in the countryside... Where Mother Nature rules, far from everybody, almost isolated... Many people dream of this, but few take the plunge.
It is this challenge that appealed to Nick Middleton and his wife Kate when they decided to leave the centre of England to m...

In the heart of Costa Rica, paradise exists: the Lapa Rios.
Two Americans head this adventure that started in the 1990s: Karen Lewis and her husband left the US and invested all of their savings in a single dream: building 17 bungalows in complete harmony with their surroundings while respectin...

A cinematic documentation of 29 buildings by the Uruguayan architect and shell-construction master Eladio Dieste (1917-2000). As prologue, three buildings by Julio Vilamajó in Montevideo. As appendix, buildings by Eladio Dieste in Spain.

Eladio Dieste’s innovations and alternative construction m...

Copenhagen is teeming with original public spaces and buildings. Dunkl first visits a colorful square with art objects from all over the world. There, he discusses with artist Björnstjerne Christiansen the identification that the square provides. In the architectural office of BIG Dunkl meets Jak...

In 2003, Denise and Ben bought their 1940's house in Clontarf, North Dublin. When they bought the house it was in bedsits and they spent €50,000 converting it back into a 3 bedroom family home.

"We put in a kind of make shift kitchen that was thrown together because we had no money left". Now f...