"architect"
The Spirit in Architecture: John Lautner
The Spirit in Architecture examines the work of John Lautner, one of the most visionary and profound architects, who began his career in Los Angeles in the 1930's. This illuminating journey into Lautner's world features never before seen footage from his apprenticeship with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin; extensive documentation of his extraordinar..
Sense of Architecture
A passage through modern civilised life by way of 42 architectural projects in Austria and elsewhere. From a church belfry to a kindergarten, pharmacy, housing project etc. and finally to a crematorium and adjoining columbarium. A minimalist twentieth-century epic.
A is for Architecture
This short documentary offers a panorama of ancient cities, palaces and temples whose splendor has awed mankind. The film moves from one tradition to another, illustrating how each reflects the sentiments and values of its time, from the massive temples of the pharaohs to the soaring skyscrapers of today.
Les folies de l'architecture - Les géants du transport
Pour construire le tunnel ferroviaire Marmaray à Istanbul, le canal de Panama ou le Transsibérien, il a fallu surmonter des obstacles impressionnants.
Edwin Lutyens Master Architect
Architecture critic Patrick Nuttgens narrates a documentary on the 20th century architect Edwin Lutyns, exploring the plans and buildings of the man who designed Liverpool Metropolitan Cathederal and the city of New Delhi.
W.L. Dow, Architect
Wallace Dow has been referred to as the "Builder on the Prairie" and was considered the premier architect of South Dakota in the late 19th century. "W.L. Dow, Architect" is a documentary about the man who came to Dakota Territory in 1880 and built a number of iconic structures.
Pigeons and Architecture
As feathered architects, pigeons navigate the city and the architectures that are built against them. Meanwhile a woman is their accomplice.
Post-Capitalist Architecture TV Part 5 – Gumpi
Joar Nango has collected books and various other material relevant to Sami architecture. This is is a deep dive into Gumpien's history and use today. A gumpi is a portable shepherd's hut mounted on dairies, often used during spring migration in reindeer husbandry.
Victor Hugo architecte
Les références à l'architecture sont nombreuses chez Victor Hugo, ne serait-ce que dans « Notre-Dame de Paris », dont bien des pages parlent de la cathédrale, qui sera restaurée en 1843 par Viollet-le-Duc.
A Justice Advancing Architecture Tour
Animated blueprints, archival documents and Hawaiian language launch an affecting investigation into the colonial architecture of the occupied Kingdom of Hawai’i.
Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering
"Permanent Change" looks at the history and development of plastic within the architectural world. Capturing both a series of lectures and a panel with prominent names such as Steven Holl, Beatriz Colomina and Werner Sobek, this documentation observes detailed examples and lively debates regarding the popularization of plastic as a construction mat..
Studio Gang Architects: Aqua Tower
The film not only examines the thinking behind Aqua which makes the building's presence against the skyline so striking, but takes visitors to the award-winning "Brick Weave House" (2009) in a Chicago residential neighborhood, where brick walls form a large open-air "screened porch" at the house's front.
Architects of the Divine: The First Gothic Age
Medieval historian Dr Janina Ramirez looks back to a time when British craftsmen and their patrons created a new form of architecture. The art and architecture of France would dominate England for much of the medieval age. Yet British stonemasons and builders would make Gothic architecture their own, inventing a national style for the first time �..
Reconsidering Postmodernism: Two-day NYC conference, Co-Production with Institute of Classical Architecture & Art
Reconsidering Postmodernism features film interviews with Denise Scott Brown and Vincent Scully, as well as Tom Wolfe's keynote address celebrating the 30th anniversary of the publication of his seminal text, From Bauhaus to Our House. Also incorporated are lectures and panel discussions by 36 leading architects, scholars and critics including Tom..
Vincent Scully: An Art Historian Among Architects
This hour-long film explores the phenomenon of Vincent Scully, tracing his connection to New Haven & to Yale. It follows the arc of his interests in classical art & architecture to American architecture, historic preservation, & urban design in the 20th Century. Architects & former students such as David Childs, Paul Goldberger, Robert A.M. Stern, ..
Sir John Soane: An English Architect, An American Legacy
All great art engages in a dialogue with the past. Architecture is no exception, as this film shows in its examination of the legacy of Sir John Soane (1753-1837), an English architect of rare genius whose influence on a generation of America's foremost architects is profound.
Unexpected Modernism: The Architecture of the Wiener Brothers
Unexpected Modernism is the story of Samuel G. Wiener and William B. Wiener—brothers with different mothers—who were raised by their business-minded father in Shreveport, Louisiana. Fellows of the American Institute of Architects, the siblings’ early work was fairly traditional but a 1920s visit to Europe’s Bauhaus design school inspired th..
Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering
Accentuating the effects of space, light and structure, glass has become an architectural staple that encourages transparency and visibility throughout a variety of landscapes. After its role in the last century's call to a radical new architecture and urban life, glass architecture is today more ubiquitous than ever.
Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering
"Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering" offers examples and insights into the ever-adapting possibilities of concrete. With the participation of prominent architects and engineers such as Steven Holl, Toshiko Mori and Bernard Tschumi, the lectures consist of footage and theories pertaining to the developments of concrete..
