Movies: Architecture history

  • 2022
    The Builders of the Alhambra

    The Builders of the Alhambra (2022)

    The Builders of the Alhambra

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    Kingdom of Granada, al-Andalus, 14th century. After recognizing that his land, always under siege, is hopelessly doomed to be conquered, Sultan Yusuf I undertakes the construction of a magnificent fortress with the purpose of turning it into the land...

    The Builders of the Alhambra
  • 2018
    The Real Thing

    The Real Thing (2018)

    The Real Thing

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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 ...

    The Real Thing
  • 2018
    Jørn Utzon: The Man & the Architect

    Jørn Utzon: The Man & the Architect (2018)

    Jørn Utzon: The Man & the Architect

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    The documentary tells the story of Sydney Opera House architect Jørn Utzon's unique gift, brought to the world with the unending support of Lis, the love of his life. His story is told by the people who were closest to him: his children, close collea...

    Jørn Utzon: The Man & the Architect
  • 1980
    Architecture

    Architecture (1980)

    Architecture

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    A stop motion opus made up of hundreds of hand-painted wooden blocks that takes the viewer through a brief history of architecture. Primitive structures evolve into larger buildings......

    Architecture
  • 1986
    Mies

    Mies (1986)

    Mies

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    No understanding of the modern movement in architecture is possible without knowledge of its master builder, Mies van der Rohe. Together with documentation of his life, this film shows all his major buildings, as well as rare film footage of Mies exp...

    Mies
  • 2024
    The Little Ancestor

    The Little Ancestor (2024)

    The Little Ancestor

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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....

    The Little Ancestor
  • 2012
    Salt Lake City: A Downtown Story

    Salt Lake City: A Downtown Story (2012)

    Salt Lake City: A Downtown Story

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    In the very core of Salt Lake City, two special downtown blocks serve as a mirror. Just a handful of acres of land hold more than 150 years of the Utah story. On planners' maps, they're known as Salt Lake City Blocks 75 and 76. But to generations who...

    Salt Lake City: A Downtown Story
  • 2017
    Khéops, mystérieuses découvertes

    Khéops, mystérieuses découvertes (2017)

    Khéops, mystérieuses découvertes

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    Khéops, mystérieuses découvertes
  • 2022
    Apollonie, les dieux avaient raison

    Apollonie, les dieux avaient raison (2022)

    Apollonie, les dieux avaient raison

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    Apollonie, les dieux avaient raison
  • 2019
    Génie Français – Les Forteresses de Vauban

    Génie Français – Les Forteresses de Vauban (2019)

    Génie Français – Les Forteresses de Vauban

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    Génie Français – Les Forteresses de Vauban
  • 2022
    DUE SEGNI

    DUE SEGNI (2022)

    DUE SEGNI

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    A film commissioned by architects Vitangelo Ardito and Nicoletta Faccitondo (Polytechnic University of Bari) as a companion piece to the book 'Umberto Riva. Perciò è sempre una sorpresa - 19 conversazioni'....

    DUE SEGNI
  • 2022
    Cambodge, la magie khmère

    Cambodge, la magie khmère (2022)

    Cambodge, la magie khmère

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    Cambodge, la magie khmère
  • 1969
    Living memories

    Living memories (1969)

    Living memories

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    Living Memories is a documentary film that traces the history of the director’s neighborhood and native country, Haiti, through a personal and engaged perspective. Brick by brick, through encounters and wanderings throughout Port-au-Prince’s neighbor...

    Living memories
  • 2023
    L'Énigme de la pyramide maudite : Dahchour

    L'Énigme de la pyramide maudite : Dahchour (2023)

    L'Énigme de la pyramide maudite : Dahchour

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    L'Énigme de la pyramide maudite : Dahchour
  • 2010
    Desert Utopia: Mid-Century Architecture in Palm Springs

    Desert Utopia: Mid-Century Architecture in Palm Springs (2010)

    Desert Utopia: Mid-Century Architecture in Palm Springs

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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...

    Desert Utopia: Mid-Century Architecture in Palm Springs
  • 2009
    Peaarhitektid

    Peaarhitektid (2009)

    Peaarhitektid

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    Peaarhitektid
  • 2009
    Ray Kappe: California Modern Master - Forty Years of Modular Evolution

    Ray Kappe: California Modern Master - Forty Years of Modular Evolution (2009)

    Ray Kappe: California Modern Master - Forty Years of Modular Evolution

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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...

    Ray Kappe: California Modern Master - Forty Years of Modular Evolution
  • 1975
    The Great Houses of Ireland

    The Great Houses of Ireland (1975)

    The Great Houses of Ireland

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    Ireland’s great houses, towers and castles, including Yeats’ Tower House, Bunratty Castle, Butler Castle and Castletown House....

    The Great Houses of Ireland
  • 2022
    Teatro Amazonas: The Art of Sound and Nature

    Teatro Amazonas: The Art of Sound and Nature (2022)

    Teatro Amazonas: The Art of Sound and Nature

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    The history of the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, an opera house located in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, whose construction, between 1884 and 1896, depended on the labor exploitation of the local indigenous populations, provides an insight into t...

    Teatro Amazonas: The Art of Sound and Nature
  • 2012
    Perret in France and Algeria

    Perret in France and Algeria (2012)

    Perret in France and Algeria

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    Lauded artist-filmmaker Heinz Emigholz (Schindler's Houses) offers an exquisite excursus on the work of pioneering French architect Auguste Perret, including privileged views of his innovative concrete structures in Algeria and such magnificent landm...

    Perret in France and Algeria