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.

The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century documents a historic two-day conference organized in March, 2003 by Bernard Tschumi, who was then Dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture. Some of the greatest minds in architecture assemble to discuss theory, method and ...

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 Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality Portugal's renowned architect reviews his work with architectural historian, Kenneth Frampton as they tour fifteen projects, including the Serralves Museum and the Aveiro University Library. Siza discusses his approach to architecture with Frampton, explaining...

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.

When the Tuscan city of Pisa commissioned David Chipperfield to create a master plan that would bring new vitality to this historic place on the Arno, an exhibition of a selection of work produced by him in the last 25 years was also invited. Chipperfield chose "Form Matters" as a title for the e...

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...

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...

A documentary film about the life and work of Paulo Mendes da Rocha, 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 his...

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...

Join the creative team behind the new Shelter Originals series Mexity for an exclusive Shelter live-stream Q & A event with host Andrew Spicer (Folies) Filmmakers Mario Novas & Kate Kliwadenko join Shelter, to give a special insight into the research, production and discoveries of Mexity; and ans...

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...

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...

Japanese architect, Tadao Ando, roots himself in cultural visions of space, landscape, and juxtaposition. Inspired deeply by his home and heritage, Ando proposes an international architecture that he believes can only be conceived by someone Japanese. Believing in the importance of carpentry and ...

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...

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,...

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...

42 contemporary architectural projects of Austrian origins. As an independent work, the film emerged from the material for 57 short films that Heinz Emigholz produced for the exhibition Sense of Architecture conceived in Graz. Unlike the exhibition, which grouped the architecture thematically, th...

Episode one of MEXITY examines the ways contemporary Mexican architects are approaching award winning public spaces.

See progressive examples of building in harmony with pre-Hispanic history, and a showcase of uplifting post-earthquake urban revitalisation.

This episode features interviews wi...

"You don’t understand the kind of scarcity there is in Mexico and many other countries." - Javier Garciadiego, developer

Scarcity. Population density. Disaster recovery. Mexican architects are facing all of these challenges in ways that will surprise and inspire you.
Episode two of MEXITY looks...