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The New Modernists 9 American Architects

Most Popular • Documentary, Special Interest, 01-Jan-1993

This installment of The New Modernists looks at nine American-based innovators and their work for housing projects, commercial architecture, private houses and renovations from California to Italy to Japan and beyond. New York architect Billie Tsien, who participates in the film along with her husband and creative partner Tod Williams, states “Making architecture is about the process of making something and the thing, when you are finished, is never perfect, it is always slightly changing, it gets the scratches of the people who move in, fingerprints, it is like life itself, it is not static.” (Billie Tsien) The featured architectects discuss their methods and efforts towards building on the principles of Modernism while evolving a new language - one drawn from politics, film, literature, theory and the state of the world.

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New Line Cinema Offices, Go Silk Showroom, University of Virginia, Di Napoli house, M111 Race Park, Stretto House, D.E. Shaw & Company Offices, Void Space/Hinged Space Housing, Baum House, Kate Mantillini Restaurant, Modernism
Cast
Steven Holl Self
Mark Mack Self
Thom Mayne Self
Michael Rotondi Self
Stanley Saitowitz Self
Henry Smith-Miller Self
Laurie Hawkinson Self
Tod Williams Self
Billie Tsien Self
Crew
Michael Blackwood director
Kenneth Frampton head writer
Kenneth Frampton narrator
Michael Blackwood producer
Peter Brugger producer

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