Stars of the Built World

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  • It's all a Plan

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    A documentary film about the life and work of Paulo Mendes da Rocha, a renowned Brazilian architect. He tells his own story and the highs and lows of a remarkable life trajectory throughout a series of revealing interviews with his own daughter, Joana, over a period of ten years. Paulo, exposes h...

  • The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

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    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.

  • Aldo Rossi Design

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    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...

  • 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...

  • Gray Matters

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    Championed by a new generation of scholars, artists and collectors this iconic artist is at last emerging from the dark side as new light is shed on all aspects of the Eileen Gray phenomenon.

  • 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.

  • Oscar Niemeyer: Life is Breath

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    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...

  • Green Over Gray: Emilio Ambasz

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    Documentary on Emilio Ambasz's pioneering green architecture and its lasting impact on sustainability and urban design.

  • 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...

  • Prefab Future House

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

  • 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...