Architecture Movies

A documentary about the architectures of Piazza dei Miracoli (or Piazza del Duomo) in Pisa

A homage to the social housing architecture that is so atypical of Hong Kong - especially the Kwai Shing West Estate. About half of the population...

An adaptation of the story with the same name by Portuguese writer Alexandre Herculano.

Regular or Super is a fascinating and informative introduction to the work of Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), one of the 20th century's most...

A documentary focusing on the rebuilding projects in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

A look at some of the last stone carvers working in the United States, those completing the sculptures adorning the Washington National Cathedral....

It is 2030. Due to the enormous water scarcity, water parks in Spain and Portugal have been dried up. In her swimsuit, director Leonor Martín...

Confidential report on designer Dino Gavina's showroom created by Carlo Scarpa between 1961 and 1963. Restoration details and stills from a 1985 film...

This witty and original film is about the open spaces of cities and why some of them work for people while others don't. Beginning at New York's...

An old hostel, located in the center of Porto, served for many years as a hostel for people with few possessions, prostitutes and people passing...

Architect I.M. Pei speaks about his famous works, such as the addition to the Louvre in Paris, the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in...

A portrait of the internationally acclaimed Japanese architect who employs Buddhist ideas and western modernism to achieve intercultural architecture.

The architectural plans for Berlin from 1938 are used as an example to illustrate the fascist claim to power and its aesthetic effect. The basis for...

Designing with Nature provides a vivid account of a pivotal chapter in the architectural history of Northern California. Set in the late 19th and...

The childhood home of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and playground for her daughter Elizabeth, the future queen, is one of the oldest royal...

One billion people on our planet—one in six—live in shantytowns, slums or squats. Slums: Cities of Tomorrow challenges conventional...

Filmed in Rome in the 1980s, the work draws on Borromini’s Baroque architecture and Il Sassetta’s St. Martin and the Beggar. Beavers...

With the participation of famed architects such as Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move provides an...