Movies: Architecture history
- 2019
Architecture of Infinity (2019)
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How can structures, which take up defined, rigid portions of space, make us feel transcendence? How can chapels turn into places of introspection? How can walls grant boundless freedom? Driven by intense childhood impressions, director Christoph Sch...
- 2010
Desert Utopia: Mid-Century Architecture in Palm Springs (2010)
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Southern California’s Coachella Valley, including the communities of Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Desert Hot Springs, boasts hundreds of extraordinary midcentury modern homes, public buildings and commercial structures. Modern designers such as William...
- 2014
Making Space: 5 Women Changing the Face of Architecture (2014)
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For the first time in history, women are designing our world. They are the rising stars in architecture-previously an all-male galaxy--and they are literally and figuratively changing the landscape. MAKING SPACE captures the compelling stories and ou...
- 2009
Ray Kappe: California Modern Master - Forty Years of Modular Evolution (2009)
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Explorations in 21st Century American Architecture Series: Ray Kappe has long been a cult figure in the architectural scene in and around Los Angeles. In 1972, he founded the influential, avant garde Southern California Institute of Architecture (S...
- 2021
Touristic Intents (2021)
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touristic intents is a feature documentary film that explores the connection between mass tourism and political ideology. The film is centered on a case study: the never-completed Nazi resort of Prora, on Germany’s Baltic Sea, which was built on a ma...
- 2022
Apollonie, les dieux avaient raison (2022)
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- 2024
The Little Ancestor (2024)
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An ancestral house builds itself, comes to life, and shows us its story spanning one hundred fifty years. Through the ages, it allows us to perceive the passage of time....
- 2010
Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm (2010)
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"What we were trying to do was the ultimate form of architecture, which was predicting how society would use space, land and time." Curtis Schreier, ANT FARM Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm is the first film to consider the...
- 2019
Génie Français – Les Forteresses de Vauban (2019)
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- 2013
Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line (2013)
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro has long been at the forefront of design with provocative exhibitions that blurred the boundaries between art and architecture. This film captures their extraordinary evolution and unique process in reimagining the public ide...
- 2024
El Ariston (2024)
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In 1947 Marcel Breuer, a fundamental figure of the Bauhaus, visited Argentina and designed the Parador Ariston, in Mar del Plata. As time goes by, the Ariston will be forgotten. The context in which it was created leads us to discover how Mar del Pla...
- 2018
The Real Thing (2018)
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A smaller scale Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysées can be found just outside Shanghai; a copy of St. Peter’s in Rome can be found in Yamoussoukro, in the Ivory Coast: a journey over three continents to see the architecture of imitation, the uncanny ...
- 2022
Les Trésors du Paris haussmannien (2022)
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- 2017
Khéops, mystérieuses découvertes (2017)
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- 2012
Clean Lines, Open Spaces: A View of Mid-Century Modern Architecture (2012)
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"Clean Lines, Open Spaces: A View of Mid-Century Modern Architecture" focuses on the construction boom in the United States after World War II. Sometimes considered cold and unattractive, mid-century modern designs were a by-product of post-war optim...
- 2022
Cambodge, la magie khmère (2022)
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- 2009
Peaarhitektid (2009)
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- 2020
In Ictu Oculi (2020)
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The six-decade transformation of a block of houses, shown by means of artfully featured archival shots, highlights the beauty and sadness of human-made decay. In the blink of an eye 66 years pass by and a savings bank replaces a church....
- 2023
The Genius of the Place: The Life and Work of Geoffrey Bawa (2023)
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Geoffrey Bawa is the greatest architect you've never heard of. A groundbreaking documentary exploring the work of Sri Lanka's most important architect ...how he decolonized 20th century architecture and inspired Asia to live more naturally, sustainab...
- 2022
The Cultural History of Museums (2022)
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From the cabinets of curiosities created in Italy during the 16th century to the prestigious cultural institutions of today, a history of museums that analyzes the social and political changes that have taken place over the centuries....