"architect"
Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"
A fascinating look at the colorful career of architect Frank Gehry who despite being well into his eighties remains one of the world's most celebrated and famously provocative creative forces. From the iconic Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to LA's Walt Disney Concert Hall, Gehry's buildings both intrigue and ignite. For Frank, rules are there to be br..
Greek Sculpture and Architecture in the Archaic Age
The first Greek experiments in stone sculpture and architecture owed much to Egypt. But in quick order the Greeks set off in their own direction, looking for the perfect set of proportions to represent the perfect human body and the perfect temple. The Greek victories over the Persians in the 5th century BC infused the Greeks with a new belief in t..
Bernard Tschumi: Architect and Theorist
Filmed at his final lecture as Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Bernard Tschumi: Architect and Theorist documents a compelling and driven discussion of space, time, and movement.
Philip Johnson: Diary of an Eccentric Architect
This documentary depicts Johnson at work and the importance of the architectural act, the actual construction, and how the buildings interact with their environment — in this case, the autumn leaves or snow of New Canaan.
A Girl is a Fellow Here: 100 Women Architects in the Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright
At a time when few architectural firms would hire women, Frank Lloyd Wright unhesitatingly employed women, giving them both training and the opportunity to practice. Ultimately, over 100 women architects and designers worked with Wright, many of them going on to remarkable careers of their own. In his studio in Oak Park and at both Taliesin Fellows..
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture
Working together as photographers since 1957, Bernd and Hilla Becher have become known for capturing endangered architecture quickly vanishing from the modern landscape. By the end of the 1960's they were part of the conceptual art movement in view of their minimalist approach. "Bernd and Hilla Becher: 4 Decades" follows the couple through their re..
OMD: Live - Architecture & Morality & More
Live concert by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark recorded at the Hammersmith Apollo, London on Saturday 19 May 2007.
VISTARA: The Architecture of India
VISTARA was part of 'The Festival of India' - a series of major exhibitions in the 1980's organised by Pupul Jayakar, that the Govt. of India presented around the world: in London, New York, Moscow, Tokyo, Berlin, and so forth. VISTARA presented not only the great monuments of Indian history but also examples of the vernacular habitat that existed ..
Architects of Control - Program One: Mass Control & the Future of Mankind
This DVD documentary film explores humankind’s future and the post-human world. Will the “perfect” human be a dumbed-down, regimented inhabitant of a cyber purgatory created by unseen elites? Will the children of tomorrow be smiling depressives of technocratic dystopia?
Architecture of the Breath
Entering the magical world of web builders....in which we work and breathe with them as they unreel a complex harmonious world...we follow.
Hellenistic Sculpture and Architecture
The disappearance of the free city-state in the age of monarchy had a profound impact on Greek art. Sculptors dwelt more on the expression of human emotions and the display of raw physical beauty than heretofore. And architects were now commissioned by their royal majesties to produce monumental edifices to reflect the power and glory of the king a..
Architectural Escapades at Dartmouth
A report from the field (Dartmouth College) on July 25, 2020 with update posted August 21, 2020
The Architecture Of Mud
The Hadhramaut region in the south east of Yemen is well known for its mud brick architecture. Throughout the centuries, the population has developed very sophisticated building techniques and created a unique architectural environment. Spectacular structures such as ten-story mud brick tower houses rise up from the valley's floor. In interviews th..
Shura City: A Proposal for Anti-Drone Architecture
Collaboration with Asher Kohn and 유+웃 CHAiT. In response to drone attacks and unlawful use of surveillance, a proposed city, Shura City, exists as an alternative city-state model. The polity’s citizens through collective decision-making are able to live free of intrusion by state forces and enable us to think about the value of security and p..
Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move
With the participation of famed architects such as Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move provides an intimate look into the work of the daring and controversial creator. Filmed in the U.S. and Germany, Eisenman takes the viewer through several of his buildings, including the Wexner Center in Columbus..
Chemical Architecture
Created for a show at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York, later to become the American Craft Museum, and now the Museum of Arts and Design, CHEMICAL ARCHITECTURE documents the creation of an exhibit structure created by Yale architecture students for a show entitled “Plastic as Plastic” that surveyed furniture, industrial design, kit..
Notes for Those Beginning the Discipline of Architecture - Alternate Ending 1 : the Glimmering Noise
Architecture is a discipline plagued by its own insecurities, a curious mixture of optimism and pessimism, momentary successes and, more commonly, deep frustrations. In this new publication, Michael Meredith, Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, tackles the problems facing the discipline head-on, interrogating its internal ..
Rem Koolhaas: A Kind of Architect
Rarely 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, the Casa da Musica concert hall in Porto, and the Guggenheim Heritage Museum in Las Vegas are working examples of the Dutchman's visionary theories about archite..
Bureau 06: The architects of the Eichmann Trial
Bureau 06 tells the dramatic story of the team of Israeli police investigators that researched and prepared the charges brought by the Jewish people against Adolf Eichmann. The charges, when collated and then heard in court 50 years ago, told the story of the Jewish Holocaust to the entire world in a way that it had not been told before. This chang..
Oliveira, l'architecte
Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 1929, and where today Oliveira reminisces about the figure of his father, his first experience of cinema as an actor, his past as a racing driver, his first technical experiences…
