Architecture History Movies

Everyone knows the view of Via della Conciliazione with St. Peter's Basilica framed behind it. The most famous postcard of Rome, the background used...

A journey through time to our futuristic recent past. A documentary film about the rise and fall of a Finnish plastic house. A story about the utopia...

Explorations in 21st Century American Architecture Series: Ray Kappe has long been a cult figure in the architectural scene in and around Los...

touristic intents is a feature documentary film that explores the connection between mass tourism and political ideology. The film is centered on a...

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

Documentary about the architecture of the Swedish housing boom in the 1960s and how it's viewed today.

GOFF explores the life of architect Bruce Goff, one of the most innovative yet forgotten American architects of the 20th century, and the path that...

Maurizio Sacripanti’s prefab school, designed in 1969 for the town of Molfetta, turns into a deafening film. An animated interpretation of a...

A series of static shots of the buildings of the California Mission system, as they existed in 1907. Because many of the Mission buildings were in...

Part architectural genius, part kitsch fairytale, Neuschwanstein Castle is closely linked to the tragic fate of Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886). The...

The history of the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, an opera house located in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, whose construction, between 1884 and...

Diller Scofidio + Renfro has long been at the forefront of design with provocative exhibitions that blurred the boundaries between art and...

Lauded artist-filmmaker Heinz Emigholz (Schindler's Houses) offers an exquisite excursus on the work of pioneering French architect Auguste Perret,...

In the heart of Paris, an entire palace has disappeared. It was the very first residence of the kings of France. Long before Versailles, long before...

"What we were trying to do was the ultimate form of architecture, which was predicting how society would use space, land and time." Curtis Schreier,...

The work of Fernand Pouillon, "France's most wanted" architect after being imprisoned and mysteriously escaping in the 1960s, now seems to have faded...

A core group of architects embraced the West Coast from Vancouver to LA with its particular geography and values and left behind a legacy of inspired...

Living Memories is a documentary film that traces the history of the director’s neighborhood and native country, Haiti, through a personal and...