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Nakagin Capsule Tower : Japanese Metabolist Landmark on the Edge of Destruction
Built in 1972 by Kisho Kurokawa, the Nakagin Capsule Tower is a rare, long standing example of Metabolist architecture. This portrait, filmed in 2010, gathers context surrounding the tower from its residents as well as Kurokawa’s colleagues, friends and family as they debate the current issues wi...
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The New Peasants
It's 15 years since this family have eaten from a supermarket or owned a car. In this Documentary Minamalism, meets DIY and off-grid living with inspirational outcomes.
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Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice
Critic Kenneth Frampton is a masterful commentator on the architecture of our time. Over the past fifty years he has certified himself as a prolific and influential contributor towards a progressive interpretation of architecture in modern society. Architect Stan Allen interviews Frampton, questi...
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Mies on Scene: Barcelona in Two Acts
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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Deconstructivist Architects
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...
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Strange and Familiar
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Lebbeus Woods and Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture
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...
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Greg Lynn - Archaeologist of the Digital
Greg Lynn, one of the leading figures in computer-aided architectural design, visits the first in a series of exhibitions initiated by the Canadian Centre for Architecture for which he is the curator. The exhibition, entitled “Archaeology of the Digital”, features four individuals who bodly apply...
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Vilanova Artigas
The documentary rebuilds the life of the Brazilian architect João Batista Vilanova Artigas. His relatives, friends, students and six of his major works tell the history of this iconic Latin American modernist.
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Japan Three Generations of Avant-Garde Architects
In an examination of Modernism, Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects studies seven innovative minds who fuse Japanese traditions with modern materials and technology. Bonded by a belief in architectural savagery and brute minimalism, Itsuko Hasegawa, Arata Isozaki, Toyo Ito, Tadao Ando,...
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Where Architects Live
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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A Day with Zaha Hadid
While guiding us through her retrospective exhibition, "Zaha Hadid Has Arrived"‚ the renowned architect recalls her career from its beginning, discussing her education, inspiration and technique. The exhibition, located at The MAK in Vienna, features a new sculpture from Hadid entitled ‚ "Ice Sto...
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Land Artists
Denton Corker Marshall is one of the world’s most influential and iconic architecture firms. They have produced distinct, innovative and memorable architecture and urban design both in Australia and internationally. Works such as the Stonehenge Visitors Centre, Manchester Civil Justice Centre, Me...
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Prefab Future House
A Shelter Original Film. Peter Stutchbury Architects new solution to prefabricated affordable housing using a Cross Laminated Timber construction, innovation from one of Australia’s most celebrated modern architects.
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The Power of Utopia
What would a utopian city of the 20th century look like, if designed by one of the most iconic & revered architects of the era? And would it all work?
Discover the incredible planned city of Chandigarh in India; the largest and most ambitious project of the renowned Swiss and French architect Le...
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Ep 3 - Sweden
Dermot travels to Sweden where he discovers that rather than fighting against the darkness and the weather, Swedish design embraces them both and the results are enlightening.
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Education of an Architect - Voices from the Cooper Union - John Hejduk
With the participation of John Hejduk, the members of a graduating class at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union in New York City explain the imaginative solutions to their fifth-year thesis assignment. Through a riveting combination of landscape, space, narrative and cr...
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Christianity
Across the world, there’s an astonishing variety of buildings, ancient and modern, humble and grand, that are sacred to Christianity.
More than mosques and synagogues, Christian places for praise and devotion have been created in every conceivable size and shape. And often their form is a functi...
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Gray Matters
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.
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Ep1 - Sydney
Dermot explores the award winning Cabbage Tree House, an amazing home embedded in the hillside of the suburbs of Bayview in Sydney's Northern Beaches.