This documentary showcases Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, highlighting its unique design and construction. Gehry discusses his creative process, from initial sketches to using advanced computer technology, resulting in the iconic, sculptural building.

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...

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An engaging and visually inventive profile of the architect, beginning with his family background and early influences.

Through interviews with fellow architects, academics and with Koolhaas himself, we see the evolution ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Danish architect, Jørn Utzon, was awarded the first prize in a competition to design an Opera House for Sydney in 1957, he flew to Australia to begin work on the construction of the greatest building Australia has ever seen and, indeed, one of the finest achievements of modern architecture. Utzon...

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...

Konstantin Grcic is considered one of the most innovative and profound product designers worldwide. His career began with a chair and a lamp, both of which are on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

"Design is Work" accompanies the designer for the duration of a year in the various ...

The film delves into the archive of the Renzo Piano Foundation and the Studio. Drafts, sketches, models, renderings, drawings are all housed in 3,000sqm of a converted factory in Genoa, which reflects the identity of the Architect and his way of thinking and working. A place of experimentation, t...

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...

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...

"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...

Peter Stutchbury Architects new solution to prefabricated affordable housing from one of Australia’s most celebrated modern architects. A Shelter Original Film.

In 1947 Marcel Breuer visited Argentina and designed The Ariston in the city of Mar del Plata. With the passing of time, the Ariston will be forgotten and its slow destruction will begin. Its history leads us to think on the importance of architectural heritage.

Talking about architecture with Álvaro Siza Vieira, recipient of the Prizker Prize and one of this century’s finest architects, as well as socialist and passionate smoker. The film spotlights his early work and allows the viewer to gain insight into Siza's way of working and thinking.

“Architect...

The inspirational story of world-renowned Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama. Imprisoned in his own country during the 1940s because of his race, Ray found the strength to overcome injustice and prejudice on his journey to artistic excellence. His groundbreaking works, including the Ontario Scie...

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...

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...

Architect Renzo Piano and Director Carlos Saura discuss their view on the relationship between architecture and cinema and show us the magic surrounding the Centro Botín in Cantabria, Spain. This gigantic building as imagined by Renzo Piano is a building that through time, will modify the soul of...

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...

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...

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...