Architecture Movies

A 1996 Dutch documentary film about the Western European architects who were invited by the Soviet Union to construct “Socialist cities”...

"Steven Holl: The Body in Space" explores the career of the innovative, highly renowned American architect. In this portrait Holl presents some of...

Once a maverick who was nearly run out of the American Institute of Architects, John Portman is now recognized as one of the most innovative and...

New York City’s bridges dissolve into shifting abstractions through montage, superimposition, and color. Set to an electronic score by Louis...

A travelogue of Los Angeles area vernacular architecture and Hollywood's self-promotion as the land of make-believe.

Directed by Jean Rouch.

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...

Housing a Dream follows Dutch visionary artist Joost Conijn as he builds his dream home—an unconventional, rotating house that turns with the...

Documentary about Gert Wingårdh.

This promotional travelogue, made for the Christchurch City Council, shows off the city and its environs. Filmed at a time when New Zealand’s...

A film on the social movements upholding the right to live in the city of Lisbon at a time when the struggle for urban space builds up as the result...

Poème Électronique is an 8-minute piece of electronic music by composer Edgard Varèse, written for the Philips Pavilion at the...

The Barbican Estate in the City of London is arguably England's finest example of Brutalist architecture. This film explores the history of the...

Jugaad is a Hindi word that can be translated as "innovative or effective solution that bends the rules". It refers to the extreme capacity developed...

A hybrid artistic bet and therefore binding in which the architectural space ceases to be a scene of contemplation and awakens enhanced by the flow...

Walking Walking Looking Watching In and around Following directions There, I see I know that And that And there, another My device tells me...

With its own demolition imminent, a building reflects back upon its life, projects its own ideas of what might have been and imagines future...