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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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 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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...