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Film Description
The Architectures series presents a privileged and unprecedented look at the work of superstar architects and some of their most brilliant creations. Co-produced by the European public television channel ARTE, this series of 5 DVDs looks at architecture and its historical and social functions to reveal its meaning and impact on humanity.
Each 26-minute film in the series focuses on a single building chosen because of the pioneering role it has played in the evolution of contemporary architecture. Meticulously filmed, each building is explored in great detail and this in-depth examination highlights all the concerns that confronted the architect from the genesis of the project through to its completion.
Architectures 1 covers milestones such as Germany's famed Bauhaus and the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris. It also examines the work of architects Jean Nouvel, Otto Wagner, Walter Gropius, Alvaro Siza, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers and Jean-Baptiste-Andre Godin.
Architectures 2 analyses Frank Lloyd Wright's Johnson Wax building, the innovations of the Galleria Umberto I, the luxurious Stone Thermal Baths in Switzerland, and a high-speed train station, Satolas, in Lyon. It also examines the work of architects Santiago Calatrava, Peter Zumthor, Felix Duban, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Architectures 3 examines the Jewish Museum of Berlin, designed by Daniel Libeskind, Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, a Dominican convent designed by Le Corbusier, Charles Garnier's Parisian Opera and buildings by Antoni Gaudi and Alvar Aalto.
Architectures 4 covers the Royal Saltworks of Arc and Senans, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Jean Prouve's House, the St. Foy Abbey, and the Sendai Mediatheque in Japan. It also examines the work of architects Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Pierre Chareau, Frank Gehry, and Toyo Ito.
Architectures 5 analyses the Alhambra in Granada, Adalberto Libera's Reception and Congress Building in Rome; the House of Sugimoto in Kyoto, Japan, Zaha Hadid's Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg; the Yoyogi Olympic Gymnasium in Tokyo by Kenzo Tange; and the Villa Barbaro by Andrea Palladio.
