What’s it like to live in Alterlaa, the largest social housing complex in Austria? The humorous film debut of Bianca Gleissinger reveals the operation of this “city within a city”....
The film essay follows the fate of a nuclear power plant worker who measures his life expectancy by the amount of energy he produces. When this energy begins to run...
Live dance performance by the choreographer Sylva Šafková combines contemporary dance with a visual story describing the picture of distorted reality. Using mirror reflections one reaches quite unreal, however, the...
Is Brasília the prime example of modernism or an architectural utopia? The opulent project of the so-called city of the future by the architect Oscar Niemeyer and the urbanist Lucio...
What happens when Finnish architectonic studio wins a competition to design an urban plan for a new city in a Nepalese valley? The euphoria of winning and the passion for...
Confined to her new apartment in Zurich during the pandemic, the director rediscovers her hometown through an 8mm camera and film footage shot 50 years ago by her parents. The...
In 2021, ten years has passed since the opening of the new ČVUT building in Prague for the local Faculty of Architecture. The significant construction designed by the first lady...
The latest film about a legend of modern architecture. Alvar Aalto together with his wife, creative partner and architect Aino Aalto built an uneasy, yet important path towards modern architectural...
Adolf Loos was a revolutionary going beyond the habitual order in his profession as well as society. The documentary follows the development of his artistic manuscript from Pilsen to Prague...
Afterparty of the Day of Architecture and Film and Architecture festivals with concerts and DJs. Predskokan Otrok is an electronic experimental project of composer and saxophonist Miroslav Tóth, whose performance is created by mixing forms of IDM, techno or glitch. "Stavoprojekt" is developed in collaboration with Lucie Tóthová. The compositions were inspired by Lucie's research in archival materials of architecture in former Czechoslovakia.
What does dance have in common with architecture? A great deal, at least in the oeuvre of Aires Mateus – freedom of movement, sense for composition and detail. The architecture...
The Milanese architect, designer, and sculptor Angelo Mangiarotti is one of the most important figures of the Italian art scene of the second half of the 20th century. In the...
Remarkable film tribute to Peter Rice introduces an extraordinary career and character of one of the most acknowledged engineers of the 20th century – his childhood in the Irish Dundalk,...
Another Kind of Knowledge is the result of a conversation that started in 2017 with the renowned Danish architect Dorte Mandrup, who for years has been an established figure in...
An epic, intimate and poetic reflection on the fate of architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the distant past reveal our destruction, yet offer hope for...
„The space, which exists in our imagination, gives us a lot of freedom. Because we are re-creating it over and over again.“ This poetic film travels in the spiritual realm...
Designed by the prestigious Pritzker Prize winner Ryu Nishizawa, the house on the Chilean coast is part of a large-scale Eight-Cubed project bringing together world-renowned Chilean and Japanese architects. It...
Lecture of the V&A curator Olive Horsfall Turner (online) and screening of films The Disappearance of Robin Hood and Brutal Neglect The most daring social housing project in the British...
Arne Jacobsen's work has shaped the identity of modern Denmark throughout the 20th century, and at the same time contributed to defining the renowned Scandinavian design. His designs range from...
This almost dreamlike spontaneous monologue about the power of photography is a recording of shapes, colors, and sensations on a dictaphone and a camera at the same time. From the...
This Oscar-nominated feature film documents the society in modern China, where the contrasts between the upper and lower classes are completely at odds with the communist preaching of social equality....
In the past years, the faith of the Berlin Brutalist building, former research lab built in 1981 and used for animal testing for decades, has raised heated discussions. The film...
Fascinating view in history of the legendary avantgarde school uniting art, crafts and design in one piece It has been hundred years since Walter Gropius founded Bauhaus in Weimar. The...
Throughout the second half of the 20th century, Sri Lankan architect Geo rey Bawa designed architecture that was fundamentally tied to nature. His buildings create spaces that compel visitors to...
The Danish capital is often considered one of the most inclusive, creative and overall best cities in the world. But it wasn't always so. Thirty years ago, Copenhagen was a...
The famous filmmaking duo Bêka & Lemoine embark on a one-day journey through Bangkok with Boonserm Premthada, one of Thailand's most acclaimed architects of today. This unusual cinematic portrait gradually...
The film presents Roman Bolck’s project BIOM which brings a visionary perspective of the future where cities become self-sufficient thanks to innovative architecture and technologies. It explores how to support sustainability in future megalopolises.
Visually appealing combination of dance, architecture and film in distinctive architectural locations of Portugal. Dancing bodies in the film bring to life the static character while emphasizing the uniqueness of...
With regard to vast concrete construction of high-rise housing estates in densely populated cities of India, a project emerged that is based on sustainable constructions out of mud coexisting with...
The visual essay Brutal Moods composes an image of brutalist architecture from famous film excerpts. In its fictional narratives, it represented various utopian and later dystopian ideas. A musical performance...
The decay of Hotel Thermal and its planned controversial reconstruction stands like a brutalist exclamation mark in the debate about preserving the architecture from the 1960s and 1980s. The English...
The film retells the fascinating story of the residents' struggle against the utopian redevelopment of Minneapolis in the 1970s and coming to terms with the consequences of its partial realization....
Incredible story about the representative building of the Bastille opera in Paris built in 1989 on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille. The winner...
Silent mystery thriller will come to life accopanied by the music ensamble FORMA Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari significantly influenced the development...
In a narrow alley in the Portuguese city of Porto, curious and confused glances meet in front of the slow demolition of a dilapidated house. As this ruin loses its...
Lovers of claustrophobic co-living, venture capitalism and technological innovation, and above all specialists in work-life balance and high quality of life - Aleš Stuchlý and Vít Schmarc from the film...
This artistically composed film explores three peripheral sites of urban infrastructure: a data center, a ring road and a dilapidated shopping mall. All of these places were built with certain...
With the construction of the Indian city of Chandigarh, architect Le Corbusier completed his life's work. One of the most comprehensive ensembles of modern architecture was completely built between the...
An inspiring documentary about four significant architects of the 20th century and their innovative view on the role of architecture and a city where the power of a community and...
A documentary following the sad fate of the abandoned International Fair in Tripoli, the unfinished project of world-famous modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer. The vast exhibition complex, including international pavilions, theatres,...
The immediate response to the devastating earthquake in Skopje in 1963 was a massive construction in Brutalist style within a joint project of Yugoslav and foreign experts, especially the Japanese...
Audiovisual comeback to the near past, when the Prague neighbourhood of Vinohrady witnessed a disappearance of the building complex Transgas – a unique exemplar of early use of high-tech style...
Filmmaker Sven Blume embarks on a very intimate journey to get to know his grandfather Carl Nyrén - the famous Swedish post-war architect. Sven had no interest in architecture for...
How do we deal with the past through architecture? Constructions built during the past regimes are closely tied to many prejudices of contemporary society regardless of the quality of the...
A unique documentary based on the original idea by Vladimir 518 and directed by Jan Zajíček about the Czechoslovak pre-revolutionary architectural scene. The authors present remarkably and with passion extraordinary...
The premiere presents a film created specifically for the Day of Architecture 2020. What do the future inhabitants of new architectural visions dream about and how do they imagine their...
Dodge House designed by Irving Gill in 1914 and finished two years later was the first real modernist residence in the West. Astonishing house spreading out on almost 2000 m2...
An entertaining quirky film documenting the complicated process of moving artworks from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam to a new art warehouse designed by MVRDV. Director Sonia Herman...
Poetic documentary describes – in an apparently unbiased way – new means of dealing with illegal drugs in the Moscow urban jungle. The film plays out in sleepy neighbourhoods between...
What is the most difficult thing in life of an architect in the DDR? To resist the powerful authorities or to save his marriage? The film Die Architekten brings us...
Music video by Terra in the black and white picture is dominated by the Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord at Jiřího z Poděbrad Square by the...
The love and hate relationships of three artists in the backdrop of an iconic building come to life in a stylish docufiction. In 1929, Irish designer and architect Eileen Gray...
An elderly woman relives memories of her past in the German housing estate Chorweiler. At first glance, the unified apartment complex from the 1960’ is atypical because of the color...
A playful romantic film set in Madrid during the Franco regime shows the role that architecture and urban planning can play in a romantic story. It is October 1959, the...
Creating comfort in the not so spacious Ukrainian housing estates, temporary balconies used to be a complete rarity. Interviews with balcony owners, Council employees, historians, sociologists and also urbanists, developers...
Experimental film by the world-renowned Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill, among others the author of several reconstructions in Prague, is an abstract cinematic testimony of the architecture of the brain. Psychodrama...
A short black and white excursion through Rome at night, inspired by the last scene of Federico Fellini's Roma. While in the famous director's film the buildings are artificially lit...
Documentary outlining the life and work of the prominent author of modern Czech architecture The director Pavel Jirásek introduces historical importance as well as the global and local impact of the...
A portrait of a fragile woman of steel follows both her work in interior design and architecture arousing strong, yet ambivalent reactions as well as her personal journey of a...
Swedish documentary filmmaker Sven Blume's cinematic handwriting is typical of his ability to subtly criticize and at the same time evoke a deep understanding of both human and architectural protagonists....
The audiovisual poem follows the life of a woman moving through an urban environment on her mobile construction. In doing so, she encounters a number of different urban structures. Sometimes...
Villa Fröhlich in Černošice is one of the early designs by the architect Jan Kotěra. The summer house uniquely combines the influence of English residential architecture with the Czech vernacular tradition....
In a picturesque Rumanian village of Letea located between water canals, rural woods, Ukraine and the Black sea, animals have become the most common inhabitants of a number of abandoned...
A short poetic film made for the Day of Architecture on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the death of architect Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel. Screened before the movie The...
Documentary portrait of Czech architect, professor and outstanding character Alena Šrámková captures her lifetime inextricably tied to the destiny of her projects and executed buildings. Her work not following fashionable...
Israeli-Canadian architect, urbanist, and theorist Moshe Safdie has already achieved worldwide recognition with his first-ever Habitat 67 building. The pioneering project was designed on the basis of Safdie's central thesis...
Pritzker-prize winner of 2022 Francis Kéré creates simple technology designs for both developing and high-income countries and uses local materials to enhance social, economic and political environments. The film documents...
What is the secret of possibly America’s greatest ever architects? It is not the first documentary about Frank Lloyd Wright and certainly not the last film about the man most...
Originally from Switzerland the architect Albert Frey started his career in the studio of Le Corbusier working on the iconic Villa Savoye. Strongly influenced by this experience, he left his...
The Next Palace recalls the existence of the Trade Fair Palace in the last 90 years in the form of a narrative bend. The palace has had a troubled life. It...
In 2014, a prominent Russian oligarch acquires a 20,000 square-meter former Moscow power plant called GES-2, located near the Kremlin. The world-famous architect Renzo Piano transforms it into a contemporary...
One of the most acknowledged Australian architects and the laureate of the Nobel Prize in architecture (Pritzker Prize) Glenn Murcutt takes on the leading role in this documentary about a...
The heroine of the story, Glythe, suddenly finds herself besieged by brutalist futuristic constructions that gradually replace her natural habitat. Surreal elements of digital art evoking virtual reality and memories...
Welcome to Tech Farm, a Swedish residential start-up that wants to blur the lines between leisure and work. Its inhabitants are young entrepreneurs who are willing to dedicate every minute...
One of the pioneers of modernism was the architect and designer Eileen Gray, the woman behind the iconic E-1027 table and the exemplary functionalist villa on the French coast. The...
The film presents principal projects by Argentinian architect and designer Emilio Ambasz who is considered to be the pioneer of green architecture. His typical inclusion of vast green areas into...
Danish design is known all over the world for its simplicity, functionality and longevity, but most female designers from the so called 'Golden Age of Danish design', which spanned from...
Life on the rooftops offers an unusual view from above on the Cuban capital. Its inhabitants retired here from the noise and smell of the bustling city. Nonetheless, the beautiful...
Film portrait of excentric and yet exceptionally precise Austrian architect who has more than 600 buildings to his credit. Karl Schwanzer was an internationally recognized icon of postwar architecture. His buildings, especially the BMW Headquarters, the iconic “Four-Cylinder”, are known all around the world, however, the architect himself is unfortunately disappearing from the public awareness. In this partially featured film, the authors tell the story of this talented and energetic personality whose temperament was actually a defense mechanism against inner demons.
German-American architect Helmut Jahn is one of the well-known representatives of postmodernism. In addition to numerous projects in Germany, he is the author of Berlin's Sony Center on Potsdamer Platz....
The film follows the structure of Montreal's Silo n°5, a huge urban building that is inaccessible to the public and under constant surveillance. One night, a guard enters the silo while watching an unusual object. This turns the silo into a space on the edge of reality. The film uses cinematic techniques to navigate a 3D scan of the object, capturing the blurring of the boundaries between fiction and reality.
Documentary follows the last year in the life of Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan, the author of almost hundred executions on the verge of sculpture and architecture. Karavan describes his own...
A humorous, personal and provocative film addressing the phenomenon of gentrification The film’s main arc spans the author’s diverse living environments, beginning with his childhood in a rich neighbourhood to...
One of the most famous realizations of Soviet brutalism, Kiev's Flying Saucer is undergoing a period of radical transformation of its immediate surroundings and perhaps even of itself. Florian Yuriev's...
Prora, the so-called Monster by the sea, is considered the longest building in the world. Originally planned as a seaside resort of the Third Reich, after the Second World War...
In his post-war films, the famous film director Jacques Tati reflected the comic side of French modernity on the basis of fictional and real architecture and design. In his lecture,...
Originally a blacksmith, but most of all a self-taught designer and architect Jean Prouvé significantly contributed to the outlook of French architecture of the 20th century and to the technological...
A short film capturing Kalyon Karapınar, the largest solar power plant in Turkey, and the futuristic architecture of its central control building. The power plant occupies 20 square kilometers and...
The Pritzker-Prize-winning Irish-American architect Kevin Roche is not world-famous, despite a lifetime of acclaimed work such as the Ford Foundation headquarters and College Life Insurance Company as well as 60...
What happens when the place around us starts to rapidly change and/or disappears completely? Film by the Czech-Swedish filmmaker follows the fate of the Swedish town of Kiruna located above...
A series of shorts about buildings by Jan Kotěra shot by several Czech filmmakers on the occasion of the 150th birth anniversary of the great founder of Czech modernism Shown...
A story by the director Gilles Coudert about growing up in the largest complex of houses by Le Corbusier in Europe combines testimonies of many contemporary artists and inhabitants, who...
This animated film presents a poetic night walk through the La Défense district of Paris, where a homeless man encounters the sculpture "The Red Spider" by Alexander Calder. This hand-drawn film, in which artworks placed in public spaces come surrealistically to life, conveys a sense of alienation and loneliness. The film is also a critique of a slick business district that is not welcoming to all.
New cultural and science center Buddy Holly Hall grew out of the community needs inspired by the physical and cultural milieu of Lubbock, a city in Texas. The name of...
In the immense Chinese city of Chonging, the last old quarter is about to disappear. Will the people cope with the change? In the third largest and most populated Chinese...
The architect Sigurd Lewerentz became famous for his distinctive designs, but throughout his life he avoided interviews and worked in isolation - his personality was shrouded in mystery. Lewerentz's realizations...
A block of short films by architect, designer, director and producer Liam Young, who has been nominated for a prestigious BAFTA award and has worked as a consultant on several...
A poetic portrait of a woman leaving the loneliness of a city apartment and finding a new home on water. A short meditative film about living together with unruly waters...
In the 1970’, community housing became a vision that responded to the housing crisis and the austere modernist architecture. Three architects and a group of courageous residents were willing to...
Bratislava in the past few years is a place of relatively fast urban transformation, which is represented by the new and clean straight roadway lines. Demolition and vast construction make...
While water is not the natural habitat for Felidae, what is the faith of the lion in the Hotel Thermal’s emblem in the spa town of Karlovy Vary? A short...
The Amager Bakke waste plant in Copenhagen proves that architecture does not have to serve only one purpose. The famous Danish studio BIG of the architect Bjarke Ingels managed to...
The Swiss architect Mario Botta specialises in sacral buildings, each of which he approaches with a unique individual style. As one of the few he has built space for service...
How is the life in one of the most polluted cities in the world? Looking very inhospitable, with winter temperatures of thirty degrees Celsius below zero, the city makes the...
Short intimate cinematic portrait is a personal tribute to the author's grandmother, the architect Alena Šrámková (1929-2022). The 2019 film follows the architect in the new building of the Faculty...
Story about the construction and subsequent reconstruction of the German pavilion in Barcelona designed by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich The functionalist pavilion from granite stands at the...
Portuguese tiles are a symbol of Portuguese culture: it is an icon of public spaces and the pride of its inhabitants, and a stumbling block for urban mobility. This black-and-white...
Can a natural material like mud present the future of construction? Mud Frontiers is an experimental project led by the architect and lecturer at the American Berkeley University Ronald Rael...
Unusual approach to architecture through the lens of music videos. What can these miniature films tell us about architecture and vice versa? The artists offer an alternative form of perceiving...
The Berlin “Brachen” are unique urban spaces that grew out of the post-war debris, economic hardship and geopolitical division. These ostentatiously empty spaces turned into laboratories for botanists, artists as...
The unjustly forgotten "story of a man who believed for a while" - the director of a dismantled cultural center. The satirical panopticon from Czechoslovak production also features the character...
The film depicts the creation of a pavilion made of snow as a temporary land art work in the open air. Artist Wanda Koop and designer Thom Fougere created it...
Italy's Ode to Concrete pays tribute to the diverse uses of this popular material in architecture. The magic of texture and elegance of forms surrounded by sunlight and blue skies....
What are the benefits of the Olympics for the host cities and their countries? Is hosting the Olympic Games sustainable from an urban and economic point of view? And what...
The French town of Marseille is composed of one third of residential buildings that increasingly hide behind barriers and walls. The suburban area of Coin Joli until recently connected to...
Short experimental film investigates the architecture of the former Yugoslavian pavilion at the Brussels World Fair, Expo 58, which serves today as an elementary school. Together with a group of...
When the filmmaker Andy Howlett first set out with his camera to document the final days of the Birmingham Brutalist Central Library in the area called Paradise Circus, little did...
Short capture of life in the peaceful Barcelonian neighbourhood Montbau, a unique housing estate created in the second half of the 50s. This public space is dominated by a combination...
Dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch was a legend of the international dance scene. She transformed the language of movement with unique multimedia creations arousing emotions while offering an inimitable visual...
A recording of the construction of a minimalist mountain villa designed by the world-famous architect Rem Koolhaas. Director Frans Parthesius documents the project from the initial bold plan up to...
Why can’t we afford to live in our own cities anymore? And who is there to blame? This turbulent journey follows the rocketing rents and personal tragedies. In this powerful...
Adam Štěch will reflect on the contemporary tendencies of Italian interior design of the 1960’ and 1970’ in his original selection of specific scenes from Italian horror and crime films...
“Simplicity is the key to excellence.” (Dieter Rams) How does the house of the legend of German industrial design look like? The most recent documentary by the independent filmmaker Gary...
London's now-demolished apartment complex Robin Hood Gardens often provokes conflicting attitudes in the architectural community. Was Alison and Peter Smithson's brutalist 1972 feat a misunderstood masterpiece or a failure of...
RODAS is an audiovisual project reflecting the contemporary meaning of living together. Poetics of the household is formed with humor, charm and irony articulating various moments of the everyday in...
Station halls by the architect Josef Danda can be found all across the Czech Republic, from Cheb to Ostrava. The student short called Route transforms impressions captured during a journey...
The film offers an ironic look at the Suomi Hloubětín development, which promised to fulfil the ideal of modern Finnish-style living. The film analyses the political potential of 3D visualizations...
Two different stories of historic houses in Taiwan that have witnessed many events. In the north, there is an abandoned building, overgrown with weeds, which symbolizes the tragic era of...
The movie documents the creation of 25 works by the famous land art artist Strijdom van der Merwe. Over the course of a year, the camera follows Strijdom as he...
This short film by Sarah Lomenová, the author of this year's Day of Architecture Film, follows a pipe winding through the city and nature like a snake. A ubiquitous piece...
The film shows the fate of the huge modern building of St Peter's Seminary in Cardross, Scotland, which was completed in 1966 and abandoned in the 1980s. The viewer follows...
A complex film portrait of one of the most significant world architects, Pritzker Prize winner, Álvara Siza Vieira. A spectacular project of a Portuguese gallery presents Siza’s life story through...
An introduction to the harsh social inequality of Brazil begins when filmmaker Denise Zmekhol finds her father's masterpiece in a state of disrepair and inhabited by hundreds of homeless people....
A funny documentary road movie in which Canadian photographer Christopher Herwig searches for diverse bus stops in the former Soviet Union. Architecture, just like everything else, was under a strict...
Short cinematic fair of monumental Brutalist buildings in the post-Soviet bloc, which in face of the war in Ukraine disappear quicker than ever before. The film was created as part...
A fascinating story of the futuristic complex Biosphere 2 – an architectural and ecological experiment. Eight idealistic scientists closed themselves for two years in the 1990s in order to start...
The 1985 James R. Thompson Center, a former government building, is an atypical glass building in the middle of Chicago with a monumental atrium resembling the hull of a spaceship....
The film captures the challenges posed by the transformation of housing and its implications for future generations of residents. What impact did the devastating earthquake of 2015 have on the...
Symphonie Diagonale (Diagonal Symphony) is one of the earliest works in abstract film to have been conserved and it is the only one by this artist that has survived to our...
Geographical and intellectual journey that leads to “cracking the mysterious case of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Los Angeles houses”. Voices of architecture critics, curators of Mayan and Pre-Columbian art are mixed...
The wave of demolitions that are wiping brutalist buildings off maps around the world is not avoiding even the most famous developments. The Prentice Tower in Chicago, whose designer, Bertrand...
In the near future, the city center is expensive, empty, and estranged. Own housing became an unaffordable commodity a long time ago. A young architect Julie, who works as an...
While Russia continues to destroy Ukrainian cities, Ukrainian architects are working to rebuild them. How to proceed now? Many ambitious projects no longer make sense in the current situation, and...
This mockumentary film provides unique insight into the life of a member of the mostly unknown baroquesexuals for whom Baroque art is an object of desire, love, and excitement. Screened...
Welcome to Villages, the largest retirement community in America. In the sun-lit and perfectly kept paradise on 82 km2 there are more than 150 residents aged 55+. 96 recreation centres,...
In 1961, the twenty-eight-year-old Justo Gallego decided to build a cathedral in a small town near Madrid. For the next 60 years of his life, he devoted all his time...
The film offers expert opinions together with intimate portraits of inhabitants of the social housing, whose ideals about affordable community living disappeared as a steam over the new developer projects...
What does our city stand on? What is the impact of building industry on the environment? A major film by the Austrian director Nikolaus Geyrhalter records not only the global...
Short documentary film, zooming in on a Bauhaus style cottage The Hatch House is a wooden cottage designed in 1960 in the modernist style by Jack Hall. Using stop motion...
Lyrical documentary about he we create our home Where is my home? Is it where I feel content and intrinsically happy? This film experiment accurately hit the current social atmosphere...
This dramatic story following the steps of a distinguished architect of Czechoslovakian origin, who influenced international architecture, will be presented on the occasion of the 130. anniversary of his birth....
Would architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe have achieved international fame if it wasn’t for a number of distinctive female figures who had his back? Much has been said about...
An intimate journey over the ocean of Lászlo Moholy-Nagy, a distinguished personality of the Bauhaus school. The goal to continue developing ideas of the influential European school in America eventually...
What challenges await the person who leaves the banking sector to devote himself to planning places in the city with regard to developing community life? The documentary follows Fred Kent,...
A sensitive cinematic excursion around the buildings of Balkrishna Doshi, Pritzker Prize winner and a prominent figure not only in sustainable architecture, who unjustly remains in the shadow of his...
The Centraal Beheer office building, built on a square grid, is a textbook example of structuralism designed by its leading representative, the Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger. Hertzberger always saw the...
The director and artist Jill Magid traces the controversial legacy of the most celebrated Mexican architect Luis Barragán Known as “the artist among architects”, Luis Barragán is among the world’s...
Is there really only one original? In light of globalization, the copying of artworks as well. As architecture has become increasingly relevant topic. The director Benoit Felici presents a ride...
What looks like an ugly design to some is an iconic piece of Polish architecture to others. The Jaszowiecz district was designed by the renowned architects Winnicki brothers and Mr....
In the 1950s, French screenwriter, director and comedian Jacques Tati elevated architecture to the role of a main character. In his work, he accentuates the aesthetics of modern architecture, while...
Four years in one street. Culturally diverse Hoxton Street in London has in recent years recorded an influx of a new group of inhabitans bringing in digital startups, good coffee...
Will Venice turn into a ghost town at nightfall? The romantic idea of medieval Venice is long gone. Only a city without life remained as a memorial to a dead...
At various times during the 60s and the 70s, the urgency of the struggle triggered “a cinema right now”, underground as well as militant, experimental as much as documentary. That immediate...
Welcome to Longyearbyen, one of the most isolated and coldest places in the world The city of Longyearbyen located in the Norwegian Svalbard Islands resembles a moonscape rather than a...
A dynamically edited and visually engaging mid-form documentary about the construction of a house based on organic shapes. Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville presents the collaborative futuristic vision of artists,...
Poetic take on the family house Casa Trevo also called the Trefoil House by the architectural duo Elsa Caetano and Olivier Ottevaere. Abstract sculptural spaces with concrete facades represent a...
Extraordinary road trip by currently the most celebrated filmmakers of architecture will lead into the depths of the hustling city. Behind the steering wheel of his vintage Alfa Romeo, the...
A film collage depicting the alleged hallucinogenic effects caused by a two-colored pavement near Ostrava's train station. The film combines the personal experiences of locals as well as visitors and...
Visual fair called Trusses is a celebration of modern engineering. Meditative shots follow the journey of four parts of the truss from their production in the Belgian Saint-Vith over to...
The town of Almere, near Amsterdam, is a symbol of a dull satellite area for many Dutchmen. But the qualities of this model development from the 1970’ have been appreciated...
"Every building should have a clear face that reflects its character. If it doesn't have a distinctive face, it's not a good building." A film portrait of Berlin's legendary hexagon-shaped...
What is the daily work flow of Winy Maas, co-founder of the world-renowned Dutch studio MVRDV? Intercontinental routes – from finishing the mirror-covered museum building in his hometown of Rotterdam,...
Buildings by Samuel G. and William B. Wiener made the city of Shreveport in the 1930s an early centre of modern American architecture. After visiting Bauhaus, the most prestigious European...
What is the language of a city? Three chapters of a city acoustics. The record of time, journey and space. A series of short animated films based on stereophonic recordings...
In the Valldaura residence, a laboratory led by the Barcelona institute IAAC, a group of young architects from around the world take part in a short-term educational programme. Struck by...
An organic vision of the unique house of baron Empain in an art deco style located in the residential part of Brussels. Completed in 1934, the villa had served as...
In recent years, Belgium has been considered a center of progressive contemporary architecture. A series of short two-minute videos present these new developments from the Wallonia and Brussels area through...
Online tour of a house by the MVRDV studio and screening of a documentary about building the city of Kemerovo Warm up in MVRDV An unexpected architectural performance gives the...
What role can architects have in addressing homelessness? And how can cities become better homes for all? This short follows the lives of people without home in a city on...
From destructive bombing attacks during the Second World War to an epicentre of the far right in Germany. The documentary shows a complex destruction of the centre of Dresden and...