Movies: Architecture

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Leading Nepalese film scholar and Tokyo University of Information Sciences professor Ito Toshiaki serves as the first Japanese director and screenplay writer for a Nepalese film in this mid-length feature film. Screened in Kathmandu and recipient of ...

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....

The story of the gigantic apartment complexes, known as Bloki, built in Poland under communist rule. These reviled blocks were home to thousands of people. The architects of these buildings talk about how the blocks came about, while residents explai...

Sonia Guggisberg presents the documentary Subsolo, about the work interrupted in the 1970s below Avenida Paulista....

A look at a Disney Hotel once the lights are down and the guests are away... and the mystery that may or may not be hidden from the public eye....

The Alps are covered by a nearly invisible security system that’s supposed to protect humans from natural disasters. This film attentively follows the sometimes mysterious-looking activities and preparations to portray the human struggle against the ...

Documentary about a grandma that lives in the Unité d'habitation....

A rare, in-depth artistic journey into the work of internationally acclaimed Swiss architect Mario Botta. The film explores Botta's ever growing curiosity and reflections on the contractions of society through his sacred spaces, a subject very dear t...

This film is an in-camera portrait of the place Ville Marie Royal Bank Building in Montréal....

A Swedish documentary about Vällingby....

In the 1960s, frustrated by the growing problem of urban pollution, Athelstan Spilhaus, a visionary scientist and futurist comic strip writer, assembled a team of experts to develop a bold experiment: the Minnesota Experimental City (MXC). MXC would ...

Archiculture takes a thoughtful, yet critical look at the architectural studio. The 25-minute film offers a unique glimpse into the world of studio-based, design education through the eyes of a group of students finishing their final design projects....

Berlin’s brutalist heritage is under fire. The city’s powerful Charité hospital wants to destroy a brutalist icon of the Cold War era: The infamous former animal research laboratory called the Mäusebunker. Meanwhile, a dedicated group of politicians,...

BEYOND ETERNITY - Architecture Facing the Impermanence is an exploration of architecture in the context of climate change, resource scarcity, circular strategies, real estate speculations and refugees crisis, framed within the context of the second e...

Utopian symbolic playgrounds from memories are interconnected through sharp, flickering lights....

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The Hopperstad stave church is a marvelous, iconic architectural statement from the fjords of Norway. Replicating the "stavkirke's" spiritual power and beauty became a quest for G.D. "Guy" Paulson of Fargo, ND. His Hopperstad Stave Church Replica is ...

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