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The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor
Critic Kenneth Frampton visits architect Peter Zumthor at his studio in the remote village of Haldenstein in the Swiss Canton of Graubünden, where the politics of architecture remain at a comfortable distance.
While discussing some of his most famous works, including the Zinc-Mine-Museum and The...
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The Pruitt-Igoe Myth - An Urban History
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development and the St. Louis residents who called it home.
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth seeks to set the historical record straight. To...
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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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The Proposal
The Proposal follows conceptual artist Jill Magid as she develops a radical project to explore artistic legacy. At its heart is the work of the Pritzker Prize-winning Mexican architect Luis Barragán, which is aggressively “protected” and kept from the public by its copyright holders.
By cultiva...
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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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Tadao Ando: Emptiness to Infinity
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.
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After September 11 - Re-imagining Manhattan's Downtown
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...
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
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.
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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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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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Buildings For People
"Building for People" surveys town planning and architecture, tracing the evolution from village greens to modern urban centers. It contrasts chance-driven designs of the Industrial Revolution with today's systematic approach, following a design team as they create community-focused spaces that m...
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House of Adaptation
House of Adaptation takes viewers on a journey through the minds of the people that gave life to a climate-adaptive building. In 2020, the NGO The Global Center on Adaptation was in search of a location, to establish their headquarters. The city of Rotterdam proposed to donate a unique building t...
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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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Group Affairs
In the film Group Affairs, the architectural firm GROUP A explores the past and future of their practice
by inviting peers, clients, colleagues and friends to a roundtable discussion. Unexpected questions
create a unique dynamic in this remarkable format. They reveal the fragilities of being an a... -
Regular or Super
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 ...
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JR's Hut
Inspired by a classic ‘A’ frame tent, JR's Hut stands alone on a hill outside Gundagai in rural New South Wales. It is a place to switch off, quite literally, and forget about the distractions of modern life. Sustainable Australian hardwoods were the obvious choice given the huts ‘eco’ brief and ...
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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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Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
Driven by their mutual admiration of classical architecture, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown have worked together to create a space of unique post-Modernist construction. Filmed during the design and realization of the Sainsbury extension to the National Gallery in London, the husband and w...
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Coast Modern
Travelling along the Pacific North West coastline from LA to Vancouver, the film showcases the pioneers of West Coast Modernist Architecture, and the homes that have become their legacies. Stepping inside the most inspired dwellings on the west coast, we feel how the light and space of a classic ...
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Microtopia
Microtopia explores how architects, artists and ordinary problem-solvers are pushing the limits to find answers to their dreams of portability, flexibility - and of creating independence from the grid. Microtopia deals with contemporary urgent ideas that are addressed, and solved, in very surpris...