Movies: Architecture

  • 2019
    Louis Kahn's Tiger City

    Louis Kahn's Tiger City (2019)

    Louis Kahn's Tiger City

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    Art historian and filmmaker Sundaram Tagore travels in the footsteps of Louis Kahn to discover how the famed American architect built a daringly modern and monumental parliamentary complex in war-torn Bangladesh....

    Louis Kahn's Tiger City
  • 2020
    In Ictu Oculi

    In Ictu Oculi (2020)

    In Ictu Oculi

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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....

    In Ictu Oculi
  • 2021
    A Abóbada

    A Abóbada (2021)

    A Abóbada

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    An adaptation of the story with the same name by Portuguese writer Alexandre Herculano....

    A Abóbada
  • 2012
    SAGRADA: El misteri de la creació

    SAGRADA: El misteri de la creació (2012)

    SAGRADA: El misteri de la creació

    5.52012HD

    Gaudi's Sagrada Familia has been continuously under construction since 1882....

    SAGRADA: El misteri de la creació
  • 2012
    The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat

    The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat (2012)

    The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat

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    In 1959, a government employee named Richard Oyler, living in the tiny desert town of Lone Pine, California, asked world-famous modern architect Richard Neutra to design his modest family home. To Oyler's surprise, Neutra agreed. Thus began an unlike...

    The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat
  • 2014
    Nebraska's Capitol Masterpiece

    Nebraska's Capitol Masterpiece (2014)

    Nebraska's Capitol Masterpiece

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    Nebraska's Capitol is a national historic landmark ... a masterpiece of art and architecture, and the spirit of everything Nebraskan. Explore the enduring nature of Nebraska's statehouse and how its visionary design portrays Nebraska's people, its hi...

    Nebraska's Capitol Masterpiece
  • 2003
    Kochuu

    Kochuu (2003)

    Kochuu

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    A film about modern Japanese architecture, its roots in the Japanese tradition and its impact on the Nordic building-tradition. Winding its way through visions of the future, traditions, nature, concrete, gardens and high-tech, KOCHUU tells us how co...

    Kochuu
  • 1963
    Tere Ghar Ke Samne

    Tere Ghar Ke Samne (1963)

    Tere Ghar Ke Samne

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    Rakesh, a successful architect, falls in love with a girl: Sujata whose father happens to be his own father's business rival. Sujata's father unwittingly assigns Rakesh the contract for building his house. This sets the stage for an entertaining stor...

    Tere Ghar Ke Samne
  • 2019
    The Hermits

    The Hermits (2019)

    The Hermits

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    In the midst of the chaos of México City, a group of eight bachelor millennials who call themselves ´The Hermits´, open the doors to their tiny apartments in the historic Ermita Building, in the yet-to-be gentrified neighborhood of Tacubaya, and shar...

    The Hermits
  • 2025
    in retrospect

    in retrospect (2025)

    in retrospect

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    Immigrant workers build a shopping mall for the upcoming 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. In 2016, nine people with migrant backgrounds are killed in a racist attack at the same mall....

    in retrospect
  • 2023
    The Power of Utopia: Living with Le Corbusier in Chandigarh

    The Power of Utopia: Living with Le Corbusier in Chandigarh (2023)

    The Power of Utopia: Living with Le Corbusier in Chandigarh

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    With the construction of the Indian planned city of Chandigarh, the Swiss and French architect Le Corbusier completed his life's work 70 years ago. Chandigarh is a controversial synthesis of the arts, a bold utopia of modernity. The film accompanies ...

    The Power of Utopia: Living with Le Corbusier in Chandigarh
  • 2019
    Architecture of Infinity

    Architecture of Infinity (2019)

    Architecture of Infinity

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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...

    Architecture of Infinity
  • 2011
    A Plea for Modernism

    A Plea for Modernism (2011)

    A Plea for Modernism

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    Phillis Wheatley Elementary School was a significant landmark in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, serving as an important educational institution for African-American students for nearly half a century. The school was known for its innovative m...

    A Plea for Modernism
  • 2012
    Work Hard Play Hard

    Work Hard Play Hard (2012)

    Work Hard Play Hard

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    A film about non-territorial office space, multi-mobile knowledge workers, Blackberries and Miles&More. A road movie discovering the working world of tomorrow. This documentary will take you on a journey through the post-industrial knowledge and serv...

    Work Hard Play Hard
  • 2013
    Amancio Williams

    Amancio Williams (2013)

    Amancio Williams

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    A biography documentary of the Argentine modernist architect Amancio Williams....

    Amancio Williams
  • 2020
    Backwards

    Backwards (2020)

    Backwards

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    In a corporate world where people walk backwards, Minus needs to control his instincts to fit in society and climb the social ladder....

    Backwards
  • 2023
    Making Dust

    Making Dust (2023)

    Making Dust

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    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...

    Making Dust
  • 2018
    The Real Thing

    The Real Thing (2018)

    The Real Thing

    7.62018HD

    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
  • 2024
    INFRASTRATA

    INFRASTRATA (2024)

    INFRASTRATA

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    Amongst the contemplative static shots of decaying architecture weaves an abstract narrative unveiling the life-cycle of a higher perception, too large to perceive. Shot at various sites across south-east England, INFRASTRATA is a study on the concep...

    INFRASTRATA
  • 1998
    Documentary: Rachel Whiteread, House

    Documentary: Rachel Whiteread, House (1998)

    Documentary: Rachel Whiteread, House

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    Rachel Whiteread’s cast of a Victorian terraced house in London’s East End was hailed as one of the greatest public sculptures by an English artist in the twentieth century. Completed in autumn of 1993 and demolished in January 1994, House attracted ...

    Documentary: Rachel Whiteread, House