The Body's Architecture

The dancers and their forms. Their pains. Their dreams.

Built Beautiful: An Architecture and Neuroscience Love Story

For centuries, humans have sought to express beauty in architecture and art, but it is only recently that neuroscience is helping to determine how and why beauty plays an important role in our wellbeing. Architects and n

Winter: Images of Contemporary Chilean Architecture

This exhibition presents projects of relevance to contemporary Chilean architecture such as the reconstruction of the Pereira Palace in the center of Santiago and buildings that inhabit nature, located in the Atacama Des

The Spirit in Architecture: John Lautner

The Spirit in Architecture examines the work of John Lautner, one of the most visionary and profound architects, who began his career in Los Angeles in the 1930's. This illuminating journey into Lautner's world features

Jim Stirling's Architecture

British architect James Stirling discusses his views on architecture, his own and others, and visits some of the major completed projects to talk about the problems and solutions that cause buildings to look the way they

The Sea Rach: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism

On a ten-mile stretch of the Northern California coast lies the site of a radical architectural experiment. Learn the story behind The Sea Ranch, a place where environment informs geometry and buildings embody ideals.

The Space in Between (Airport Architecture)

". . . Nevertheless, Fogel pushes these pictures of escalators and suitcase-toting travelers deeply into lyrical, Rorschach-symmetrical abstraction. In the course of moving from video to film, the images become flattened

Architecture and design of man and woman

Using Alexander Tsiaras' groundbreaking imaging techniques, this program reveals the architecture of the human body in an entirely new and fluid way. Data gathered with the latest digital technologies has enabled Tsiaras

Hostile Architecture: The Fight Against the Homeless

You have probably seen it before and never even noticed. Metal bars dividing public benches. Perhaps tiny spikes sticking out of a railing or half wall. These are examples of a form of city planning that the general publ

Desert Utopia: Mid-Century Architecture in Palm Springs

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. Mo

Architecture of Hope- For the Ruins of the Present

Jujol - Gaudí: Two Geniuses of Architecture

Thousands of tourists come to Barcelona from far and wide to admire the work of the great architect, Antoni Gaudí. What they don't know is that many of the photographs they take home with them are of works by Josep Mª Ju

Strange and Familiar: Architecture on Fogo Island

Architect Todd Saunders’s buildings on Fogo Island, Newfoundland embrace the excitement of being on the edge of nature and contemporary design while fulfilling the goal of doing ‘new things with old ways’. Saunders and c

Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering

"Permanent Change" looks at the history and development of plastic within the architectural world. Capturing both a series of lectures and a panel with prominent names such as Steven Holl, Beatriz Colomina and Werner Sob

The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor

Architect Peter Zumthor lives and works in the remote village of Haldenstein in the Swiss Canton of Graubünden where he can keep the politics of architecture at a comfortable distance as he enjoys status and praise for h

9/11: Blueprint for Truth - The Architecture of Destruction

In this stunning multimedia presentation at a Canadian university, SF Bay Area architect, Richard Gage, AIA, provides a packed audience with a tough technical review of the overwhelming evidence of controlled demolition

In Search of Clarity: The Architecture of Gwathmey Siegel

Charles Gwathmey has held steadfast to the spirit of modernism in his architecture from the day he successfully built his parents' home in 1967 based on the theories of Le Corbusier and American individualism. Avoiding t

Pursuing Beauty: The Architecture of Bernard Maybeck

PURSUING BEAUTY: The Architecture of Bernard Maybeck tells the story of a 19th century romantic who used 20th century materials to create buildings that speak across time. The body of work that Maybeck created is remarka

L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui

Regarding Le Corbusier: the man and his architecture

Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture

Working together as photographers since 1957, Bernd and Hilla Becher have become known for capturing endangered architecture quickly vanishing from the modern landscape. By the end of the 1960's they were part of the con