Architecture Movies

Aspects of the city of Congonhas do Campo. The preponderance of baroque architecture, the Basilica of Senhor Bom Jesus de Matozinho, the six chapels o...

Standing still in the midst of eternal recursivity. An attempt to reconcile with the mystery of passing time, on both a grand and a cellular scale.

"Permanent Change" looks at the history and development of plastic within the architectural world. Capturing both a series of lectures and a panel wit...

Winy Maas, co-founder of MVRDV architects, always has 100 projects going at once. Documentary filmmaker Jan Louter followed him for two years to make...

For the past two decades Didi Contractor has been passionately implementing her architectural visions in North West of India, the Kangra Valley, at th...

A fictional letter from a daughter, Olivia, to her mother in Dominica is the narrative thread connecting interviews from (predominantly) black and Asi...

Making a documentary on Le Corbusier is not easy, because he is undoubtedly the architect most familiar to the general public but also the most unknow...

A film essay investigating the question of what “the West” means beyond the cardinal direction: a model of society inscribed itself in the Federal Rep...

A look at contemporary Paris through the lens of theories and ideologies of the past two centuries, with a particular focus on the utopian socialist i...

French architect Jean Nouvel has long been known in Europe for his bold, shimmering glass museums, concert halls, and high-rise towers. Now the much-...

Arata Isozaki: Early Work in Japan takes a detailed look at the architect's pieces, exploring applauded projects such as the EXPO '70 Osaka Festival P...

Beneath towering Brutalist architecture, a man is driven to do what must be done.

"Clean Lines, Open Spaces: A View of Mid-Century Modern Architecture" focuses on the construction boom in the United States after World War II. Someti...

A residential tower block in East London. The clicks and growls that are constantly being created by the building’s inner workings. Its vibrations, el...

This is a short documentary about the old City of Buenos Aires and the new one. It’s an observational piece where the old photos of the same places in...

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...