The definitive documentary on the early history of Modernist architecture in the United States, rooted in New England. Featuring both well-known and lesser-known architects, it explores how bold design reshaped the region and influenced the nation. A must for architecture students and enthusiasts...

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

Genre and ground-breaking architect Paolo Soleri remains largely unknown outside of architectural circles, but his legacy as an artist, builder and urban theorist is staggering. Narrated by actor-activist Peter Coyote, this documentary takes a close look at Soleri’s origins and lifelong labour of...

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...

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.

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...

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 m...

Cuba's ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro's Revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece.

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...

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.

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 ...

Through the story of the construction of the new Munch Museum in Oslo, carried out for over twelve years by a small Spanish architecture studio, studio Herreros, we discover the astonishing transformation of the Norwegian capital. What should museums of the future be like? And cities? How do we w...

A picture of the man and the architect, aspiring painter, promoter ante litteram of Italian design who, in more than fifty years of activity, has tried it all – arts, occupations, objects, architecture and material – with untiring energy, from small to big, from the design of a handle to the form...

The first in the series will see Catherine Bennett and her youngest daughter Sarah Jane keen to downsize from their huge 13-bedroomed house in Mullingar. They're planning to move down the road, where they also own a 3-bed bungalow that's been uninhabited for the last nine years.

The portrait of a house without supporting walls. A bold dome made of concrete, an open space – right in the middle of the bizarre rock formations of a rugged coast made of reddish granite.
The house belonged to actress Monica Vitti and director Michelangelo Antonioni. The emptiness of the “cupo...

In the 1960’s, as the cities collapsed and the suburbs sprawled, Athelstan Spilhaus had a vision: A futuristic city for 250,000 residents, engineered from scratch in the isolated woods of northern Minnesota, to solve the twin urban and environmental crises.

The Minnesota Experimental City wou...

The Lindvall's bring their Swedish village back to life by creating a surprising hotel project: a hut in the wood, high on a tree.

The first in-depth exploration of the works of major Palm Springs modernist architect William F. Cody. It captures Cody's singular style and brings it to life through contemporary cinematography complimented with Julius Shulman's classic photography, and includes side interviews with Alan Hess, A...

With the participation of William Jordy, Jonas Salk, Aldo Rossi, Arata Isozaki, Tadao Ando, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown, Brendan Gill, and others.



As an architect, educator, and philosopher, Louis Kahn played a prominent role in the history of 20th century architecture. An examinati...

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.