Architecture Movies

Copenhagen’s “8 House,” an ultramodern loop of apartments created by architect Bjarke Ingels, reinvents the concept of...

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...

Secluded from view by nine-meter-high walls and composed of 980 buildings, the Forbidden City in Beijing is the largest imperial palace ever built in...

A stop motion opus made up of hundreds of hand-painted wooden blocks that takes the viewer through a brief history of architecture. Primitive...

A portrait of the German city of Ulm and it's social activities, fassades, court building. Also about the role of the district court during National...

Jose lives with his family in La Soledad, a dilapidated villa located in what used to be one of Caracas' most affluent neighborhoods. After learning...

The life of a couple is observed through the home they have left behind.

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...

In his experimental short film "Brutalität in Stein" (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of...

Once a maverick who was nearly run out of the American Institute of Architects, John Portman is now recognized as one of the most innovative and...

5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three millennia. They created marvelous works in...

A vacant theater still has “screenings” of its own: apparitions that come to life on a curved screen without anyone to see them, creating...

A research and design project that imagines the future of post-human spaces like Google data centers and Amazon warehouses. Using the same artificial...

Comprising new and archival footage, this film observes rituals performed by the South Asian, African, and Caribbean diaspora in Britain,...

A commissioned film for Schweizerischer Werkbund (SWB), Die neue Wohnung was produced for the Basel architectural and interior design exhibition,...

'Magical Imperfection' tells the inspirational story of world-renowned Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama. Imprisoned in his own country during the...

"Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering" offers examples and insights into the ever-adapting possibilities of concrete....