Movies: Architecture

In Buffalo, N.Y., some of the greatest works of American architecture relay a remarkable story that resonates with the universal themes of home, family and friendship. The charismatic Frank Lloyd Wright, destined to become America’s greatest architec...

In this dynamic and dramatic short film, an African American veteran takes us on an extraordinary journey through his life. From a chance visit to the Pentagon, to growing up in a vibrant integrated neighborhood, his story is one of resilience and in...

Making Dust is an essay film, a portrait of the demolition of Ireland's second largest Catholic Church, the Church of the Annunciation in Finglas West, Dublin. Understanding this moment as a 'rupture', the film maps an essay by architectural histori...

There are houses, and then there’s Ricardo Bofill’s house: a brutalist former cement factory of epic proportions on the outskirts of Barcelona, Spain. A grandiose monument to industrial architecture in the Catalonian town of Sant Just Desvern, La Fab...

Known for his bold, abstract and stark white buildings, American architect Richard Meier now takes on the challenge of building the Jubilee Church in Rome. Holding the location in high regard, Meier praises the vibrant visual layout of the city and t...

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The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents the transformations of society and those who give form to this architecture. We follow the journey of Munio, my father, born in 1909 in Silesia, Polan...

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A fictional letter from a daughter, Olivia, to her mother in Dominica is the narrative thread connecting interviews from (predominantly) black and Asian cultural critics, historians and journalists. The choice of occupation for the daughter, a resear...

A story about the first Serbian Olympian who won bronze medal at the first Olympic games in 1896, also a world class architect....

Ernst Hiesmayr, Walter Pichler, Ella Briggs, Margaret Schütte-Lihotzky, Helene Koller-Buchwieser, Oskar Strnad, Wilhelm Holzbauer, Christopher Alexander...

A film essay investigating the question of what “the West” means beyond the cardinal direction: a model of society inscribed itself in the Federal Republic of Germany’s postwar history and architecture. The narrator shifts among reflections on modern...

The childhood home of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and playground for her daughter Elizabeth, the future queen, is one of the oldest royal residences in Britain. This pink-painted fairy-tale fortress has been the family home to the Lyons, one o...

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....

Mothers, architects, artists, shoppers and other women who live and work in Birmingham explore the contradictions of the city, its promises, frustrations and disappointments, and suggest that listening to the experiences of women may hold the answer ...

Confusion settles in the house, how to make it a home again?...

Ninety-year-old sound artist and comedian Henry “Sandy” Jacobs lives a quirky existence at the end of Sunnyside Drive, a steep and winding dirt road washed by fog from the Pacific Ocean. Sixty feet down the hill lives his eccentric 84-year-old friend...

Chambord, the most impressive castle in the Loire Valley, in France, a truly Renaissance treasure, has always been an enigma to generations of historians. Why did King Francis I (1494-1547), who commissioned it, embark on this epic project in the hea...

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The life and death of socialist architectural monsters. An epic fairy-tale in five chapters....