Architecture for a horse

The horse as architectural logic. The video shows the empty scenarios of Madrid Universidad Autónoma, built in 1968 being walked by a white horse as if it were a ghostly element of the building's structure. The space w

The Architecture and Art of Cornell Tech

Cornell Tech features unique and innovative architecture connected by an open, public campus design. The architects share thoughts on their buildings.

Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering

"Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering" presents a series of detailed lectures during which the past, present and future of metal is discussed. Speakers such as José Rafael Moneo, Mabel Wilson

Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture

In 1982, at the height of the postmodernist adventure in architecture we visit 4 practices: Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Frank Gehry, Michael Graves and Peter Eisenman – all protégés of Philip Johnson. These in

Unexpected Modernism: The Architecture of the Wiener Brothers

Unexpected Modernism is the story of Samuel G. Wiener and William B. Wiener—brothers with different mothers—who were raised by their business-minded father in Shreveport, Louisiana. Fellows of the American Institute of A

Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering

Accentuating the effects of space, light and structure, glass has become an architectural staple that encourages transparency and visibility throughout a variety of landscapes. After its role in the last century's call t

Lutah - A Passion for Architecture: A Life in Design

Lutah explores the life of Lutah Maria Riggs, an forgotten architect who had a major impact on the development of Southern California.

A Spa. The Architecture of Zawodzie

A documentary film about one of the largest health care investments in Poland People's Republic, the modernist spa district in Ustroń (Beskid Śląski).

Roman Sculpture and Architecture and the Greek Tradition

Through commerce and conquests the Romans had come into contact with Greek art early in their cultural development. The Romans took what they found pleasing from Greek art and adapted it to Roman purposes in sculpture an

Mountain Time. Alpine Architecture in Ten Stories

This is a cinematic journey along the Italian Alpine arc, exploring ten territories and ten contemporary architectural projects that tell a new way of inhabiting the mountains. Through schools, restored villages, infrast

Architecture and Urbanism in Nineteenth Century Sweden

Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering

"Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering" offers examples and insights into the ever-adapting possibilities of concrete. With the participation of prominent architects and engineers such as Stev

Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture

Architects Lebbeus Woods and Steven Holl have been friends for many years, brought together by their creativity, philosophy and visionary architectural pursuits. While both are theorists, Woods finds himself preoccupied

Built to Last – Relics of Communist Era Architecture

A series of ten short experimental films exploring the fate of grand Soviet-style buildings and monuments erected during the communist era (1945-89) in Central and Eastern Europe.

The Science of Homiletical Architecture - Poets, Prophets & Preachers

When we speak, lead, teach, and preach sometimes very destructive can happen over time, small at first, and then it grows... Filmed live at the Poets, Prophets, and Preachers seminar in July 09' in Grand Rapids, The Poet

Nineveh On the Clyde: The Architecture of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson

Murray Grigor’s award-winning film on Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's architecture.

Dancing to Architecture - A Motion Picture About TINA

Dancing to Architecture was the first open source documentary of its kind and is to date the only existing motion picture account of the phenomenal This Is Not Art festivals (TINA) - held in Newcastle, Australia every ye

Greek Sculpture and Architecture in the Archaic Age

The first Greek experiments in stone sculpture and architecture owed much to Egypt. But in quick order the Greeks set off in their own direction, looking for the perfect set of proportions to represent the perfect human

The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era

The New Modernists: Folds, Blobs and Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era approaches the topic of artistic technological advances, and the modern architects who were educated with this new influx of electronic techniqu

Designing With Nature: Arts & Crafts Architecture in Northern California

Designing with Nature provides a vivid account of a pivotal chapter in the architectural history of Northern California. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the documentary examines the work of several major a