Movies: Architecture history
- 2010
Restoring a Masterpiece: The Renovation of Eastman Theatre (2010)
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Take a look behind the curtain to see the vast history and recent renovation of one of Rochester, New York's most famous landmarks. Architects, theater personnel, historians, community leaders, and citizens provide in depth insight from start to fini...
- 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...
- 1969
Living memories (1969)
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Living Memories is a documentary film that traces the history of the director’s neighborhood and native country, Haiti, through a personal and engaged perspective. Brick by brick, through encounters and wanderings throughout Port-au-Prince’s neighbor...
- 2018
The Real Thing (2018)
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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 ...
- 2017
Khéops, mystérieuses découvertes (2017)
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- 2014
Uma casa, uma vida (2014)
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- 2022
Teatro Amazonas: The Art of Sound and Nature (2022)
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The history of the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, an opera house located in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, whose construction, between 1884 and 1896, depended on the labor exploitation of the local indigenous populations, provides an insight into t...
- 2022
Les Trésors du Paris haussmannien (2022)
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- 2023
L'Énigme de la pyramide maudite : Dahchour (2023)
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- 2021
MSSM (2021)
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Maurizio Sacripanti’s prefab school, designed in 1969 for the town of Molfetta, turns into a deafening film. An animated interpretation of a section of the building: holes, panels and layers of the project transform into a mechanical rhythm, but the ...
- 2019
Chair Times (2019)
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"Chair Times" charts a course through an ocean of chairs. In the focus are 125 objects from the Collection of the Vitra Design Museum. Arranged according to their year of production, they illustrate development from 1807 to the very latest designs st...
- 2019
Bauhaus 100 (2019)
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In 1919 an art school opened in Germany that would change the world forever. It was called the Bauhaus. A century later, its radical thinking still shapes our lives today. Bauhaus 100 is the story of Walter Gropius, architect and founder of the Bauh...
- 2020
In Ictu Oculi (2020)
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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....
- 1980
Architecture (1980)
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A stop motion opus made up of hundreds of hand-painted wooden blocks that takes the viewer through a brief history of architecture. Primitive structures evolve into larger buildings......
- 2022
Cambodge, la magie khmère (2022)
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- 2020
Palais de Monaco, les secrets de construction (2020)
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- 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...
- 1973
The Fifth Facade: The Making of the Sydney Opera House (1973)
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On 20 October 1973, the Sydney Opera House was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II. From conception to completion, it had taken more than 15 years and over $100 million dollars. In the years since its completion, the Sydney Opera House has become...
- 1986
Mies (1986)
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No understanding of the modern movement in architecture is possible without knowledge of its master builder, Mies van der Rohe. Together with documentation of his life, this film shows all his major buildings, as well as rare film footage of Mies exp...
- 2008
Secrets of the Parthenon (2008)
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For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its sculptures, and disfigured by catastrophic renovations. To save it from collapse, the modern restoration team must uncover the secrets of how the anci...