Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-50 of 583
- An architect supervising an exhibition starts to have mysterious stomach pains while his life slowly falls apart.
- When a project to build a thousand flats in Oslo is put out to tender, architect Julie has an idea: why not convert empty underground car parks into residential buildings? A pitch-black, keenly observed satire about an all-too-near future.
- An architect engages in conflict with an activist who lives in a dangerous complex the architect designed.
- Comic book writers and artists discuss the influence of the original Crisis story on the DC Universe.
- When a couple sets out to build their dream house, they enlist the services of an uncompromising modernist architect, who proceeds to build HIS dream house instead of theirs.
- Craig Belmont is a rising young architect at an up-and-coming architecture firm in Boston. For days, he has been having visions of his head of a building- a building he strongly feels he was born to design. When his firm catches wind of a design competition for a landmark mixed-use residential and office tower, he is commissioned to head the development team. Craig sees his chance to make his vision a reality. An obsessive worker, he throws himself headfirst into his work in an effort to design his masterpiece, with disastrous consequences
- Georg is a 58-year-old successful architect. When he learns by phone that his mother had died in his home village in the Alps, he initially did not inform his wife Eva about the death. Later he drives her and his adult children Reh and Jan to the funeral in the car. He had not been to his home village for twenty years; he hides the secret of having an illegitimate son there. At the funeral, he tries not to show his restlessness. When the return trip is blocked due to the weather and the family cannot leave the village, the pastor Georg and his family ask for the will to be opened. His great love Hannah, an ex-teacher and his illegitimate son Alex are also present. His mother used her grandson Alex as the sole heir. The truth about his double life comes to light. Eva and the children are stunned.
- The architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission: to design a cultural center for a satellite town in East-Berlin. He accepts the offer under the condition that he gets to choose who he works with. This way, he reunites with former colleagues and friends - most of them architects or students of architecture who have since chosen a different profession due to personal restraint or economic confinement. Together, they develop a concept which they hope will be more appealing to the public than the conventional and dull constructions common to the German Democratic Republic. However, their ambitious plans are once and again foiled by their conservative supervisors. As frustration grows, Daniel has trouble keeping his career in balance with his family-life: his wife Wanda wants to leave for West-Germany.
- The relationship between Charles Eames and his wife Ray ignited a burst of design ingenuity whose impact on the world can still be felt over half a century later.
- In rural Alabama, architecture students cross the threshold of poverty to build communities, not just structures, and leave snakebit to make a better world.
- Pride and ignorance - a clash of two sins that results in chaos. The most beautiful dreams of a parent spawns into a cataclysmic nightmare that devastates the entire family. How can this happen on the day when they reach the land of paradise?!
- "The Architect" has created the perfect blueprint for success with multiple championships, a massive fan base, and a plethora of incredible matches under his belt. Now for the first time ever, hear from Seth Rollins himself as he tells his story of how he became a sports-entertainment megastar.
- A renewed interest is emerging in mid-20th century architects and artists who exploded the comfortable constraints of the past to create a robust and daring modernist America. Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future examines the life of an architectural giant who envisioned the future. His sudden untimely death at age 51 cut short what continues to be one of the most influential legacies in American architecture, a body of timeless work that stands apart from the clutter of contemporary design and continues to inspire architects today.
- Actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, Ed Asner narrates this gripping creatively scripted 15-minute documentary exploring the mysterious destruction of the third skyscraper at the World Trade Center on 9/11. Follow Asner and a dozen technical experts, as they methodically reach the startling, yet obvious, conclusion that the official reports about this least known high-rise building disaster are simply fraudulent. See why WTC 7, the third worst structural failure in modern history, is the smoking gun that undermines the official conspiracy theory and has compelled 1,600 architects and engineers, along with millions of other concerned citizens from around the world, to call for a new independent investigation into the explosive destruction of all three WTC skyscrapers on 9/11.
- The documentary tells the story of Sydney Opera House architect Jørn Utzon's unique gift, brought to the world with the unending support of Lis, the love of his life. His story is told by the people who were closest to him: his children, close colleagues and friends, who share their open, honest anecdotes and experiences of him as an architect and a man. The film is a portrait of a devoted humanitarian and a sensitive and loving soul.
- 20171h 44mNot Rated8.5 (64)The documentary about the most notorious political prosecution in American history. How a group of corrupt politicos, led by Karl Rove, secretly rigged a federal court to railroad former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman into jail because they couldn't beat him at the polls. It exposes the dark underbelly of political corruption, and reveals the moral crisis plaguing American politics.
- Pseudo documentary about the making of a low-budget post-nuke sci-fi/action splatter movie.
- Nicknamed "Architect to the Stars," African American architect Paul R. Williams had a life story that could have been dreamed up by a Hollywood screenwriter. His name is associated with architectural icons like the Beverly Hills Hotel, the original MCA Headquarters Building and LAX Airport. But at the height of his career Paul Williams wasn't always welcome in the restaurants and hotels he designed or the neighborhoods where he built homes, because of his race. "Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story" tells the compelling, but little known story, of how he used talent and perseverance to beat the odds and create a body of work that can be found from coast to coast.
- Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect is a feature documentary film that considers many of the key architectural questions through the 70 year career of Pritzker Prize winning Irish-American architect Kevin Roche, including the relationship between architects and the public they serve. Still working at age 94, Kevin Roche is an enigma, a man with no interest in fame who refuses retirement and continually looks to the future regardless of age. Roche's architectural philosophy is that 'the responsibility of the modern architect is to create a community for a modern society' and has emphasised the importance for peoples well-being to bring nature into the buildings they inhabit. We consider the application of this philosophy in acclaimed buildings such as the Ford Foundation, Oakland Museum and at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art for whom Kevin Roche was their principal architect for over 40 years.
- A termite named Roberto pursues his dream of becoming an architect and travels to the big city where he hopes to find success.
- A dramatic, behind-the-scene-story about the building of Santiago Calatravas Turning Torso in Malmö. A 190 meter high, twisted residential building which was appointed "worlds best residential building project" at Mipim in Cannes, 2005.
- With the participation of renowned architect, John Hejduk, members of the graduating class at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union in New York City explain their imaginative solutions to their fifth-year thesis assignment. In lucid and informed reasoning, they individually describe their sources, processes and progress in architectural language. Through a riveting combination of landscape, space, narrative and creation, this graduating class presents a vibrant and captivating image for the future of architecture. The students' passionate explanations of their projects impressively conveys the empowering nature of inspired professional education.
- In this dynamic and dramatic short film, an African American veteran takes us on an extraordinary journey through the twists and turns of his life. From a chance visit to the Pentagon, where he stumbles upon a hidden photograph from his Marine Corps days, to growing up in a vibrant integrated neighborhood, his story is one of resilience and inspiration. Fueled by the determination to seize educational opportunities, he enlists just in time to experience the racial divisions of his era before Truman desegregates the military. Thrust into the brutal chaos of the Korean War, the weight of combat becomes an indelible part of his soul. Returning home, he embarks on a new path as an architect and discovers unexpected connections in far-off Pakistan. As his family expands, his sons, one a passionate paleontologist and the other a curious astronomer, reflect on the man who raised them and the legacy he instilled. This captivating film unearths the essence of the Black experience in the early 20th century, paints a vivid portrait of the unforgiving Chosin Reservoir, and unravels the intricate tapestry of race, family, and personal growth, revealing the immeasurable strength and wisdom gained along the way.
- The architect, a contemporary master, Renzo Piano. The filmmaker, another contemporary master, Carlos Saura.
- A dying architect makes a Faustian deal with a corrupted businessman in order to preserve her artistic legacy. But when a sinister host makes his entrance into her house, she will have to face the burden of her own choices.
- An architect who designs his life just as meticulously as he designs buildings confronts misfortune when things don't go according to plan.
- Short
- Landscape frames our days: trees or flowers, sidewalks and walls, city parks or private gardens. But who envisions this framework for our daily lives? Women in the Dirt is a documentary about seven groundbreaking landscape architects. Their work ranges from intimate, jewel-like gardens to vast urban projects. Artists and scientists, the women bring to their work awareness of sustainability, function, and beauty. Women in the Dirt reveals how these self-described, masters of the obvious create the sublime.
- Albert Speer, Hitler's Architect and War Minister is sent to Spandau prison for 20 years.
- Park Jeong-Hyo (Bruce Baek; The Flight Attendant, Taken) is a mid-level employee at a civil engineering firm who always dreamed of becoming an architect. He's fallen out-of-love with his wife, Park Jae-Gyeong (Chuja Seo; Blue Bloods), and his life has receded to a place of tedious predictability. When his younger co-worker Bae Baram (Gracie Lee; Gimcrack, The Flight Attendant) shows an interest in him romantically, it rekindles his zest for life. He begins to notice the beauty of the world around him, in particular a bridge across which he walks every day on his way to and from his office. Invigorated by this new 'joie de vivre', he begins to construct a scale model of the bridge in the basement of his home, and to question his life's trajectory - and the people in it.
- Conceived as a virtual dialogue and musical journey in four acts, which investigates the responsibility of architects in building the society of tomorrow. Through the eyes of Antonio Citterio, one of the best-known Italian designers around the world, and Patricia Viel, co-founders of the Milan-based architecture and interior design practice ACPV, the film introduces a vision for the architecture of tomorrow, centered on an armistice between nature and the built environment.
- An Architect is sitting at his desk working when his wife phones up to tell him she's leaving... terror ensues.
- Our Engineer and our Architect are two people, unknown to each other, both looking for a way to cross the river. Both being very scared of drowning, they work on building and drawing things that might work to cross the river. Although they've both tried to cross this river separately by working in their specific craft, they accidentally meet and through trial and error find a way to overcome much more than they could ever imagine!
- A look at the Hopewell mounds found in Ohio's Scioto River valley.