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- DirectorGilles CoudertStarsCharles Berling
- DirectorJuliette CazanaveStarsDominique Parent
- DirectorAlain TannerStarsAlain TannerJohn BergerThe construction of a new city in India in 1951 by the French architect Le Corbusier.
- DirectorEugène GreenStarsFabrizio RongioneChristelle ProtLudovico SuccioAt the height of his career, Alexandre decides to set off for Italy with the idea of completing of a book on Borromini. Along with his wife Alienor feels her relationship with Alexandre is gradually slipping away. Along the way they meet siblings Goffredo and Lavinia. Gofffredo is about to embark in architectural studies. A story of rediscover the joys of life and overcoming anxiety.
- DirectorGary HustwitStarsAmanda M. BurdenRem KoolhaasNorman FosterA documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.
- DirectorPeter CohenStarsRolf ArseniusBruno GanzSam GrayAn absorbing and chilling documentary about the National Socialist aesthetic, and how attempts to create the Aryan Ideal caused the extermination of millions. Aspects covered include: Hitler's epiphany while viewing Wagner's opera 'Rienzi', the rise of the homo-erotic Grecian/Nordic ideal, the parallels drawn between the 'degenerate' art of the cubists and dadaists and the mentally ill/physically deformed, the Nazi obsession with purity and cleanliness, and, finally, the descent of the Jewish people to the level of a virus/vermin.
- DirectorJulia CaveStarsFrank WhitfordCharles JencksChristopher FraylingTraces the development of the Bauhaus movement (1919-1933) from its formation in Weimar by Walter Gropius to the establishment of the Bauhaus School in Dessau to its last stand in a derelict factory in Berlin.
- DirectorNiels BolbrinkerKerstin StutterheimThe bauhaus school has been and still is the most influential art School not only in Europe. Till today the Bauhaus is remembered to be the nucleus of modern architecture and design. But bauhaus was more than a cubic building or a steel tube chair. It is a model till today. Bauhaus-teachers has been international well known artists as Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee Oskar Schlemmer, the architects Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe. The documentary shows how the school started after World War I, how it became revolutionary and tells the true story about the closing and the enmashment of some of the Bauhaus-people during Nazi-Germany. Most of these is told by former students at the Bauhaus male and female Bauhaus-alumni.
- DirectorWilliam H. WhyteStarsWilliam H. WhyteThis highly influential film in architecture and planning circles by William H. Whyte analyzes the success and failures of urban spaces. Observing the natural order of spaces and the way people move through them, Whyte provides an intuitive critique of urban spaces and ways these spaces can be improved.
- DirectorMarkus HeidingsfelderMin TeschStarsDirk BaeckerCecil BalmondRene DaalderRarely has an architect caused as much sensation outside of the architecture community as Rem Koolhaas. His outstanding creations--such as the Dutch Embassy in Berlin, the Seattle Library and the Casa da Musica concert hall in Porto--are working examples of the Dutchman's visionary theories about architecture and urban society. But Koolhaas' work is as much about ideas as it is about constructing buildings; he is equally celebrated as a writer and social commentator. For Koolhaas, what is essential is not to create individual masterpieces, but to provoke and excite through the wide range of his activities. REM KOOLHAAS: A KIND OF ARCHITECT is an engaging portrait of a visionary man that takes us to the heart of his ideas. Directors Markus Heidingsfelder and Min Tesch have made a visually inventive, thought-provoking portrait of the architect, prompting Rem Koolhaas to state, "It's the only film about me that I have liked."
- DirectorHubertus SiegertStarsGünter BehnischWerner DurthHelmut JahnBerlin after the Wall came down. Observations on radical reconstruction of a city core. Images of the conflict between the thirst for demolition and the hunger for completion.
- DirectorSam Wainwright DouglasIn rural Alabama, architecture students cross the threshold of poverty to build communities, not just structures, and leave snakebit to make a better world.
- 1985– 1h 23mPG-137.1 (1.6K)TV Episode71MetascoreDirectorSydney PollackStarsFrank GehrySydney PollackJulian SchnabelA look at the life and work of the renown architect.
- DirectorPaul TilzeyStarsMatthew RhysFrank Lloyd Wright is an American icon -it's most famous modern architect whose life was characterized by public scandal, financial chaos and personal tragedy.
- DirectorKôichi MoriKaren SevernsStarsAzby BrownDonald Richie
- DirectorHeinz EmigholzThe brothers Perret built many structures across France and Algeria. Their architecture has stood the test of time to be explored by the modern filmmaker.
- DirectorHeinz EmigholzA journey from Roman construction to its influences on modernist architect Pier Luigi Nervi.
- DirectorYwe JalanderStarsHanni AlanenTouko SaariMaire GullichsenFocussing on his gift for harmonizing technology and nature, architect Alvar Aalto looks at all aspects and examines his creative style in the context of his time, the traditions he inherited and the country and climate in which he lived.
- DirectorFabiano MacielStarsChico BuarqueCarlos Heitor ConyLúcio CostaA documentary on the life, works and philosophy of a genius and a human being of unique "largesse d'esprit".
- DirectorMuffie DunnThomas PiperStarsAmanda BurdenJames CornerJoshua DavidThis documentary looks at architecture and design team Diller Scofidio + Renfro through the lens of two important urban projects - the High Line and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
- DirectorMike DorseyStarsCrosby DoeKelly LynchDion NeutraIn 1959, a working-class government employee in the tiny desert town of Lone Pine, California, asked world-famous modern architect Richard Neutra to design his modest family home. To his surprise, Neutra agreed. Thus began an unlikely friendship that would last until Neutra's death in 1970. The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat tells the story of this house and its stunning desert setting through interviews with Richard Oyler, actress Kelly Lynch, who currently owns the house, Neutra's two sons, and well-known LA real estate agent Crosby Doe.
- DirectorZhangke JiaStarsMichelangelo AntonioniYindi CaoHsin-i ChangFocuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day.
- DirectorCarlos CarcasNorberto López AmadoStarsNorman FosterDeyan SudjicThe film traces the rise of one of the world's premier architects, Norman Foster, and his unending quest to improve the quality of life through design.
- DirectorAndreas DalsgaardStarsJan GehlRob AdamsRobert DoyleHalf of the human population lives in urban areas. By 2050, this will increase to 80%. Life in a megacity is both enchanting and problematic. Today we face peak oil, climate change, loneliness and severe health issues due to our way of life. But why? The Danish architect and professor Jan Gehl has studied human behavior in cities through four decades. He has documented how modern cities repel human interaction, and argues that we can build cities in a way, which takes human needs for inclusion and intimacy into account. 'The Human Scale' meets thinkers, architects and urban planners across the globe. It questions our assumptions about modernity, exploring what happens when we put people into the centre of our planning.
- DirectorJesper WachtmeisterMicrotopia 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 surprising ways.
- DirectorFrancis HanlyStarsJonathan MeadesHaving previously investigated the architecture of Hitler and Stalin's regimes, Jonathan Meades turns his attention to another notorious 20th-century European dictator, Mussolini. His travels take him to Rome, Milan, Genoa, the new town of Sabaudia and the vast military memorials of Redipuglia and Monte Grappa. When it comes to the buildings of the fascist era, Meades discovers a dictator who couldn't dictate, with Mussolini caught between the contending forces of modernism and a revivalism that harked back to ancient Rome. The result was a variety of styles that still influence architecture today. Along the way, Meades ponders on the nature of fascism, the influence of the Futurists, and Mussolini's love of a fancy uniform.
- DirectorPaolo BrunattoStarsPier Paolo PasoliniNinetto DavoliDuring the filming of Arabian Nights (1974), Pier Paolo Pasolini talks about his passion for protecting the complete form of ancient cities and shows us Orte and Sabaudia.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniThe camera of the veteran neo realist director Rossellini explores the high tech/postmodern architecture of the Georges Pompidou center and its surroundings in the Beaubourg area of Paris, on its opening day.
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsGato BarbieriDonald F. MoyeMarcello MelisThe director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia.
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsPier Paolo PasoliniDocumentary footage of the city of Sana'a in Yemen, one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, with a voice-over calling for UNESCO to protect the city's architectural heritage before it is destroyed by development.
- DirectorHiroshi TeshigaharaStarsIsidro Puig BoadaAntoni GaudíSeiji MiyaguchiThe work of Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí, as seen by Japanese New Wave director Hiroshi Teshigahara.
- DirectorHarun FarockiStarsLouisa HuttonMatthias SauerbruchThis documentary attempts to catch the creative process at work at Berlin-based architecture firm Sauerbruch Hutton.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsHuw WheldonAntoni GaudíA study of Antoni Gaudí's architecture (especially the Church of the Holy Trinity in Barcelona), his sources of inspiration, and his influence on Picasso.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsBrian DennehyChloe WebbLambert WilsonAn architect supervising an exhibition starts to have mysterious stomach pains while his life slowly falls apart.
- DirectorJean CocteauStarsJean CocteauEdouard DermitheFrancine WeisweillerShort about Mrs. Weisweiller's Villa in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferat, on Côte d'Azur, which was decorated by Jean Cocteau.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsPaul VirilioClaude Parent"Concrete in the city" is a study of modern stone architecture. Includes interviews with French architects Paul Virilio and Claude Parent.
- DirectorJim BrownGary BurnsStarsDaniel JefferyBob LegareJane MacFarlaneAn examination of the nature of modern suburbia.
- DirectorNathaniel KahnStarsEdmund BaconEdwina Pattison DanielsBalkrishna DoshiDirector Nathaniel Kahn searches to understand his father, noted architect Louis Kahn, who died bankrupt and alone in 1974.
- DirectorIla BêkaLouise LemoineWhat happens to a house designed by a Starchitect? How is it maintained, how does it age? What problems could there be? Could there be any problems?
- DirectorIan Michael JonesStarsJonathan AdamsFrank Lloyd WrightWyn ThomasFrank Lloyd Wright is America's greatest ever architect. But few people know about the Welsh roots that shaped his life and world-famous buildings. Now, leading Welsh architect Jonathan Adams sets off across America to explore Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpieces for himself. Along the way, he uncovers the tempestuous life story of the man behind them, and the secrets of his radical Welsh background . In a career spanning seven decades, Frank Lloyd Wright built over 500 buildings, and changed the face of modern architecture.
- DirectorWilbur LeguebeStarsValérie LemaîtreBenoît PeetersFrançois SchuitenA journalist is researching documents about the urbanization of Brussels during the 19th century. But disturbing elements seem to show that there is a parallel and mysterious city that a sect is trying to reach: Brüsel.
- DirectorStuart ElliottStarsJay O. SandersKevin DicusCandace RiceBaiae was a favorite vacation spot for ancient Rome's elite including emperors like Nero. Not unlike Pompeii, everything was allowed there. Then one day, this coastal town sank into the sea. Today, scientists slowly uncover its secrets.
- DirectorJonathan StampStarsAbdalla MahmoudHisham AbdullahMohamed AwadBased on the latest archaeological discoveries and combining dramatic reconstruction, location shooting and state-of-the-art CGI computer effects, this film travels back in time to reveal how the mighty structure of the Great Pyramid was built.
- DirectorChad FreidrichsStarsSlyvester BrownIrvin DagenElmer Fiedler2011 "The Pruitt-Igoe Myth" explores the rise & fall of titular housing complex in St. Louis, examining racism & gov. Policies through interviews with former residents & historical footage. Ft racism, urban poverty & inequality in America.
- DirectorPeter von BaghStarsSiiri AngerkoskiRitva ArveloSusanna HaavistoHistory and the spirit of XXth century Helsinki through the cinema, documentary footage, architecture, art and politics.
- StarsSatoshi SuzukiSamurai Castles The Kumamoto Castle from the 17th century was heavily damaged by a series of powerful earthquakes, but the oldest sections of stonewalls miraculously survived and avoided major damage, while newer walls all collapsed. A 3D model created from 4K drone shots unveils the wisdom of samurai warriors.
- DirectorThom AndersenStarsEduardo Souto MouraReconversion portrays seventeen buildings and projects by Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto Moura, accompanied by his own writings. An investigation upon his architecture and his critical approach.
- DirectorGerson TavaresThe construction of the Brasilia dream is blurred in precious scenes that preceded the opening of the city, filmed as sombre. What will be the future of these buildings and monuments? What will become of the future of these workers?
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsMarcel BajardClément-Noël DouadyMonsieur FournierHow is a planned city designed? What consequences does creating one has on the environment? What are the living conditions in such areas ? Such are the questions asked by Eric Rohmer in this TV documentary through the particular case of Cergy-Pontoise, near Paris, still unfinished in 1975 when filming took place.
- DirectorJohn TaylorStarsJohn Piper
- DirectorMarc-Henri WajnbergStarsOscar NiemeyerThe testimony of an artist who continues to believe in the socialist ideal. The story of a man who loves women.
- DirectorPatrick CreadonStarsErick BowenRodecoe DunlowKerron HayesSpend a year in the life of one of America's most innovative classrooms.
- DirectorPeter KahaneStarsKurt NaumannRita FeldmeierJudith RichterThe architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission: to design a cultural center for a satellite town in East-Berlin. He accepts the offer under the condition that he gets to choose who he works with. This way, he reunites with former colleagues and friends - most of them architects or students of architecture who have since chosen a different profession due to personal restraint or economic confinement. Together, they develop a concept which they hope will be more appealing to the public than the conventional and dull constructions common to the German Democratic Republic. However, their ambitious plans are once and again foiled by their conservative supervisors. As frustration grows, Daniel has trouble keeping his career in balance with his family-life: his wife Wanda wants to leave for West-Germany.
- DirectorIna WeisseStarsHarald AbdelhamedJosef BierbichlerHark BohmGeorg is a 58-year-old successful architect. When he learns by phone that his mother had died in his home village in the Alps, he initially did not inform his wife Eva about the death. Later he drives her and his adult children Reh and Jan to the funeral in the car. He had not been to his home village for twenty years; he hides the secret of having an illegitimate son there. At the funeral, he tries not to show his restlessness. When the return trip is blocked due to the weather and the family cannot leave the village, the pastor Georg and his family ask for the will to be opened. His great love Hannah, an ex-teacher and his illegitimate son Alex are also present. His mother used her grandson Alex as the sole heir. The truth about his double life comes to light. Eva and the children are stunned.
- CreatorLars KraumeStarsAugust DiehlAnna Maria MüheTrine DyrholmThe year is 1919, the Great War is over, and Dörte Helm becomes part of a group of young artists and revolutionaries who evolve from the Lost to the Golden Generation. The series introduces the teachers and students of Bauhaus who inspired our modern lifestyle while telling a story of love, betrayal, and the loss of paradise.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Luc GodardIn a time before the New Wave, when aspiring French filmmakers could only hope to make shorts, due to restrictions on career advancement, Godard, working in Switzerland, funded, wrote, and directed a look at the construction of a dam there.
- DirectorHeinz EmigholzAustrian architect Adolf Loos was one of the pioneers of European Modernist Architecture. Here, twenty-seven of his still existing building are explored.
- DirectorJacques TatiStarsJacques TatiJean-Pierre ZolaAdrienne ServantieMonsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, but he can't quite fit into the surroundings.
- DirectorCorrado FarinaStarsAdolfo CeliGeraldine HooperGiuliano EsperatiIn this allegory on capitalism, director of a known car corporation invites one of his employees to his country villa to give him the good news. He just got promoted. However, the old man is not what he seems and promotion has a price.
- DirectorLászló Moholy-Nagy
- DirectorLászló Moholy-Nagy
- DirectorJoby LubmanStarsIndira VarmaDany SandronJohn DickasThe collaboration between architects, scientists, archaeologists and engineers in their efforts to restore Notre Dame.
- DirectorJuan Sebastián BollaínStarsFelipe BollainLuis BollainGrupo de Expresión Corporal del AljarafeThrough American TV we see Seville, a model city, with a technology at the service of man as nowhere else in the world, surpassing the Yankees themselves. We see an imaginary, Utopian, surprising Seville.
- DirectorJuan Sebastián BollaínStarsJosé Manuel PadillaA visionary realistic and critical, at the same time experimental and iconoclastic, portrait of the problem of the transformation of historic centers in our cities with the excuse a documentary about the La Alameda area regeneration plan.
- DirectorJean EpsteinStarsAuguste PerretCharles-Édouard Jeanneret-GrisLeón JouhauxOne of a series of populist films made by the French collective, Cine-Liberte, this focuses on the role of the people such as builders and construction workers in the history of architecture.
- DirectorAlexander KlugePeter SchamoniStarsHans ClarinChristian MarschallIn his experimental short film 'Brutalitaet in Stein' (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of inhuman and super-human scale to bolster the regime's politics of the same kind. Shots of huge neo-classical architectural structures from the Nazi period are confronted with equally anti-human national-socialist language as a voice-over.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsAntoine VitezA documentary account of landscape change in and around Paris in the early 1960s.
- DirectorLászló Moholy-NagyIn a unique cinematic journal, Bauhaus pioneer Moholy-Nagys records the meeting of the CIAM (International Congress of Architecture) in August 1933. The meeting was held on a yacht that cruised the Mediterranean Sea between Marseille, the Aegean Islands, and Athens.
- DirectorMat WhitecrossStarsJodie WhittakerIn 1919 an art school opened in Germany that would change the world forever. It was called the Bauhaus. A century later, its radical thinking still shapes our lives today.
- DirectorPatrick DemersJoseph HillelREGULAR OR SUPER is a fascinating and informative introduction to the work of Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), one of the 20th century's most influential architects, and a thought-provoking demonstration of the social and artistic contributions that architecture at its best can make to our urban environments.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsBrigitte HelmAlfred AbelGustav FröhlichIn a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsJacques DumesnilThis documentary explores the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, its priceless treasures, and how humanity remembers itself.
- DirectorMin-Wei TingA documentation of the interior of a Singaporean tower block, from bottom to top.
- DirectorJacques TatiStarsJacques TatiBarbara DennekRita MaidenMonsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsGeorge O'BrienJanet GaynorMargaret LivingstonA sophisticated city woman seduces a farmer and convinces him to murder his wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when he changes his mind at the last moment.
- DirectorShinsuke OgawaIn the very heart of the Japanese mountains, Ogawa discovers a village still dealing with the trauma of global warfare and struggling for survival as their children flee for the cities.
- DirectorCo HoedemanA fantasy where children's building blocks and music effects do everything. Blocks represent the make-believe city and the two children who play in it. Blocks even act out the story when an angry dragon appears on the scene, while music scores the action. This is puppet theater reduced to its simplest form.
- DirectorJacques TatiStarsJacques TatiMarcel FravalHonoré BostelMr. Hulot drives a recreational vehicle from Paris to Amsterdam in his usual comical, disastrous style.
- DirectorTeo HernandezSuper-8 single frame portrait of the Notre Dame cathedral featuring luminous light and a dense score incorporating players from the square.
- DirectorRobert Beavers
- DirectorStephen QuayTimothy QuayWeiser QuayStarsWitold SchejbalUses animation to explore anamorphosis, a method to put hidden images within an artwork, by distorting it using the rules of perspective.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsDelphine SeyrigGiorgio AlbertazziSacha PitoëffIn a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.
- DirectorC.I. SmithStarsJim BroadbentTerry BirdVincent O'ConnellWhat happened when we built Utopia? New Town Utopia is feature documentary about the power of art, architecture, the state of the nation - and some rather angry puppets.
- DirectorBaylis GlascockRobert SnyderStarsBuckminster FullerIndira GandhiArchitect, engineer, geometer, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome and the dymaxion car, Buckminster Fuller was renowned for his comprehensive perspective on the world's problems.
- DirectorAngel Borrego CuberoStarsNorman FosterFrank GehryZaha HadidA raw account of how some of the best architects in the world, design giants like Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry or Zaha Hadid, struggle to beat the competition for the National Museum of Art in Andorra. While nearly as old as the profession itself, architectural competitions became a social, political and cultural phenomenon of the post-Guggenheim Bilbao building bubble. Taking place at the dramatic moment in which the real estate bubble became a global crisis, this is the first competition to be documented, producing an unclassifiable piece of art that may be an intense thriller, an ethnographic report as well as a cult movie around the icons of the contemporary architecture
- DirectorLindsey HanlonRoger ParsonsStarsAlan YentobSaffet BekirogluHélène BinetAlan Yentob profiles the most successful female architect there has ever been, the late Zaha Hadid, who designed buildings around the globe from Austria to Azerbaijan.
- DirectorFredrik GerttenStarsJohnny ÖrbäckSantiago CalatravaA dramatic, behind-the-scene-story about the building of Santiago Calatravas Turning Torso in Malmö. A 190 meter high, twisted residential building which was appointed "worlds best residential building project" at Mipim in Cannes, 2005.
- 1985– 1h 30mTV-147.3 (96)TV EpisodeDirectorKaren GoodmanKirk SimonStarsBuckminster FullerPhilip JohnsonMorley SaferFew men can claim to have revolutionized their discipline. R. Buckminster Fuller revolutionized many. "Bucky" as he was known, was a designer, architect, poet, educator, engineer, philosopher, environmentalist, and, above all, humanitarian
- DirectorJill MagidStarsLuis BarragánJill MagidFederica ZancoAn artist fights to make the archives of Mexico's most famous architect available to the public.
- DirectorLuis Campo Vidal
- DirectorChristoph SchaubStarsRaphael ClamerCristina IglésiasJojo MayerBeyond the seeing and explaining of buildings, this architecture documentary deals with a very specific aspect of the effects of space: transcendence.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsBrigitte BardotJack PalanceMichel PiccoliA French writer's marriage deteriorates while working on Fritz Lang's version of "The Odyssey", as his wife accuses him of using her to court favor with the film's brash American producer.
- DirectorLuís UrbanoStarsRui PintoFilmed in 2012 at Piscina das Marés, a building designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira (renowned Portuguese architect) in the early 60's of the 20th century, "SIZIGIA" seeks to use moving images, not only as a method of representing architecture, but as a process of space investigation that explores its narrative qualities and the sense of place created by use, the materials, the light and the sound.
- DirectorMichael BlackwoodStarsJacques DerridaPeter EisenmanFrank GehryBy the end of the 1980's a new architectural sensibility challenged the prevailing post-Modern attitude and brought forth new and daring designs. Driven by the philosophy and theory of Jacques Derrida, the architects of Deconstructivism are rooted in a movement that urges us to examine the space we move through. Deconstructivist Architects documents explosive and seemingly chaotic structures from Vienna to L.A., and interviews those who pursue its aesthetic issues. Filmed on location with the architects and at the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition Deconstructivist Architecture, which was curated by Philip Johnson.
- DirectorMichael BlackwoodStarsPeter EisenmanFrank GehryMichael GravesWhile visiting four architectural practices in 1982, we discuss the postmodernist movement through its meaning and motives. Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture features Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Frank Gehry, Michael Graves and Peter Eisenman, all of whom are protégés of Philip Johnson. Guided by their mentor, these innovators rejected the European modernism of Mies and Corbusier in search of alternative directions. The architects show and discuss their buildings of the time both in their personal offices and on location.
- DirectorJesper WachtmeisterStarsTadao AndôSverre FehnKristian GullichsenKOCHUU is a visually stunning film about modern Japanese architecture, its roots in the Japanese tradition, and its impact on the Nordic building tradition. Winding its way through visions of the future and traditional concepts, nature and concrete, gardens and high-tech spaces, the film explains how contemporary Japanese architects strive to unite the ways of modern man with the old philosophies in astounding constructions. KOCHUU, which translates as "in the jar," refers to the Japanese tradition of constructing small, enclosed physical spaces, which create the impression of a separate universe. The film illustrates key components of traditional Japanese architecture, such as reducing the distinction between outdoors and indoors, disrupting the symmetrical, building with wooden posts and beams rather than with walls, modular construction techniques, and its symbiotic relationship with water, light and nature. The film illustrates these concepts through remarkable views of the Imperial Katsura Palace, the Todai-Ji Temple, the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, the Sony Tower, numerous teahouses and gardens (see link below for complete list), as well as examples of the cross-fertilization evidenced in buildings throughout Scandinavia, and shows how 'invisible' Japanese traditions are evident even in modern, high-tech buildings. KOCHUU also features interviews with some of Japan's leading architects as well as Scandinavian contemporaries including Pritzker Prize winners Tadao Ando and Sverre Fehn, Toyo Ito, Kazuo Shinohara, Kristian Gullichsen and Juhani Pallasmaa (see link below for complete list and bios). KOCHUU is a compelling illustration of how the aesthetics of Japanese architecture and design are expressed through simple means, and also shows that the best Japanese architecture, wherever it appears, expresses spiritual qualities that enrich human life.
- DirectorMark Richard SmithStarsMadolyn Smith OsborneMark Richard SmithDocumentary about the revolutionary and brilliant Chicago architect Louis Sullivan (1856-1924); his rapid rise to fame, tragic decline, and the ultimate triumph of his creative spirit.
- DirectorGary HustwitStarsDavid AlcornDavid BoehmAmanda CarrollWorkplace is an documentary that looks at the thought, innovation, and experimentation involved in creating the next evolution of what the office could be.