Movies: Architecture history
- 1978
La Alameda (1978)
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Following a commission from the College of Architects of Seville, for the production of a documentary about the La Alameda de Hércules area of the Sevillian capital in a debate about its possible destiny and urban planning challenges, the filmmaker J...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1993
High Rise and Fall (1993)
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Documentary about Queen Elizabeth Square, Sir Basil Spence's block of Brutalist style flats built to replace the Gorbal's tenements in Glasgow during the 1960s. His vision was based on architect Le Corbusier's ideas and inspired him to transform the ...
- 1969
Luis Barragán, La arquitectura silenciosa (1969)
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Luis Barragán (1902- 1988) is considered to be one of the greatest contemporary architects and one of the principal figures of twentieth-century international architecture. Since 1980, when he was granted the Pritzker Prize - the "Nobel Prize" of arc...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2022
Plan for Buenos Aires (2022)
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In 1929, Le Corbusier travels to Buenos Aires to give a series of lectures on Modern Architecture. During his visit, he proposed an urban plan for the city. Since his trip and for more than twenty years, he would obsessively develop his proposal, try...
- 2022
Mr Funkis (2022)
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Based on a series of interviews documentary film maker Anders Wahlgren made with architect Sven Markelius in 1969. Sven Markelius was one of the most radical architects in Sweden for many years. Since these interviews were the only recorded interview...
- 2021
Château-Gaillard, une forteresse imprenable (2021)
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- 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
Les Trésors du Paris haussmannien (2022)
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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...
- 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...
- 1969
Baukunst (1969)
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One building, one great Architect: astonishing insights into the architecture of the 19th century and the most ambitious architectional projects of Modern Art and pomo are combined with rare material from archives, models, several blueprints, 3D-Anim...
- 2020
Folkhemmets Estetik (2020)
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Documentary about the architecture of the Swedish housing boom in the 1960s and how it's viewed today....
- 2019
Goff (2019)
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GOFF explores the life of architect Bruce Goff, one of the most innovative yet forgotten American architects of the 20th century, and the path that lead to the destruction and restoration of his memory and dwellings....