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Architectures

Architectures

9.5 IMDb tt0853066 1996 Documentary

An ongoing series of films devoted to the most remarkable achievements in modern architecture, from the works that heralded the birth of the modern style at the end of the 19th century to the latest designs from today's top architects. By examining each building in detail, the series brings to light the role each has played in the history and evolution of architecture.

Episodes 67

The Villa Dall'Ava 1
The Villa Dall'Ava 26m Rem Koolhaas built a unique villa on the heights of Saint-Cloud.
Nemausus 1 2
Nemausus 1 26m In Nîmes, Jean Nouvel conceived a block of tenement houses reminiscent of a cruise liner. An architectural utopia…
The Iron House 3
The Iron House 26m In late 19th century Brussels, the Art Nouveau movement was laying the foundations of a new concept in…
Charlety, a Stadium in the City 4
Charlety, a Stadium in the City 26m Bruno and Henri Gaudin have broken with the classic design of a closed stadium, and created a bridge…
Pierrefonds, the Architect's Castle 5
Pierrefonds, the Architect's Castle 26m Middle Aged castle rebuilt by Viollet Le Duc for the Emperor Napoleon III. A reconstruction that paradoxically opened…
The Vienna Savings Bank 6
The Vienna Savings Bank 26m At the turn of the last century, Otto Wagner designed one of the first 20th century modern office…
The Georges Pompidou Centre 7
The Georges Pompidou Centre 26m A giant meccano-like structure designed by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, a museum-factory that has become one of…
Family Lodging in Guise 8
Family Lodging in Guise 26m The philanthropist company boss Andre Godin built a workers' housing estate with a palatial air. Social housing is…
A House in Bordeaux 9
A House in Bordeaux 26m Designed by the architect Rem Koolhaas for a couple whose husband became disabled following a road accident, the…
The Dessau Bauhaus 10
The Dessau Bauhaus 26m Walter Gropius' main achievement is the buildings of the Bauhaus, built in 1926. His pioneering architecture saw the…
Satolas - TGV 11
Satolas - TGV 26m An astonishing concrete and steel structure designed for an open field in the Lyon countryside. An astonishing feat…
The Johnson Building 12
The Johnson Building 26m These famous office buildings were designed and built between 1936 and 1939 for the wax manufacturer Johnson, by…
The Paris Fine Art School 13
The Paris Fine Art School 26m In the heart of Paris, architect Duban's 'École des Beaux-Arts' provides its students with an architectural "temple" representing…
The Siza School 14
The Siza School 26m The Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza built Porto's Faculty of Architecture, a mediation on space and light in a…
The Stone Thermal Baths 15
The Stone Thermal Baths 26m The Spa of Vals-les-Bains, designed by Peter Zumthor, redefines the very concept of public bathing, a mise en…
The Galleria Umberto I 16
The Galleria Umberto I 26m Built in Naples, this is one of the last and largest covered passageways to be constructed in Europe,…
The Saint Pancras Station 17
The Saint Pancras Station 26m In the 19th century in London, the Midland Company had Saint Pancras and a luxury hotel built. Engineer…
The Wind Box 18
The Wind Box 26m The Fort de France Education Authority is the only example of a contemporary architectural building in Martinique. It…
The Garnier Opera 19
The Garnier Opera 28m The Garnier Opera by Charles Garnier This is Paris's most prestigious 19th century building, the pinnacle of the…
The Jewish Museum Berlin 20
The Jewish Museum Berlin 26m The Jewish Museum in Berlin, by Daniel Libeskind, tackles the emptiness left by the extermination of Europe's Jews…
The Convent of La Tourette 21
The Convent of La Tourette 26m With the Convent of La Tourette, commissioned by the Dominicans of Lyons, Le Courbusier was charged with the…
The Auditorium Building in Chicago 22
The Auditorium Building in Chicago 26m At the end of the 19th century, Louis Henry Sullivan, the father of American architecture, built the world's…
The Municipal Center of Säynätsalo 23
The Municipal Center of Säynätsalo 26m Built in 1952 by Alvaar Alto, this town hall building lies in the heart of a rugged landscape…
The Casa Milá 24
The Casa Milá 26m A block of flats in Barcelona, the Casa Milà is an extraordinarily sculpted work created by the great…
The Glass House 25
The Glass House 26m In 1928, Pierre Chareau built the poetic and remarkable Maison de Verre, one of the unique buildings of…
The Abbey Church of Saint Foy at Conques 26
The Abbey Church of Saint Foy at Conques 26m Built in 1050, the Abbey is one of the foremost pilgrim churches of the Christian world. Rational, svelte…
The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao 27
The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao 26m Known for his strange and deconstructed forms, Frank Gehry designed this monumental, but chaotic and abstract-looking sculpture in…
The Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 28
The Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 26m The visionary architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, one of the earliest exponents of French Neoclassical design, built a monumental…
Jean Prouvé's House 29
Jean Prouvé's House 26m In 1953, while going through his worst life-crisis, French designer Jean Prouvé built "his" house. Designed in haste,…
The Multimedia Library of Sendai 30
The Multimedia Library of Sendai 26m A glass cube, built in 2001 by Toyo Ito, this library provides an example of immaterial and evanescent…
The Alhambra, Grenade 31
The Alhambra, Grenade 26m Worried that their dynasty would disappear, the Nasrid sultans built this Red Castle in a strategic location over…
Phaeno, Building as Landscape 32
Phaeno, Building as Landscape 26m The sculptural power of the science center in Wolfsberg, Germany, in which the plan is a landscape -…
The House of Sugimoto 33
The House of Sugimoto 26m Built in Kyoto in 1743, this traditional Japanese architectural masterpiece portrays a different understanding of architecture and building.…
The Reception and Congress Building in Rome 34
The Reception and Congress Building in Rome 26m In the most ambitious of the Mussolini regime's buildings, the leader of Italy's modern movement Adalberto Libera attempted…
The Yoyogo Olympic Gymnasiums 35
The Yoyogo Olympic Gymnasiums 26m For the 1964 summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Kenzo Tange designed two concrete gymnasiums which evoke a sense…
The Villa Barbaro 36
The Villa Barbaro 26m By inventing the villa, a new type of housing, in 1550, Palladio sought to combine aesthetics with utility.…
The Royal Mosque at Isfahan 37
The Royal Mosque at Isfahan 26m In 1598, King Abbas planned an immense urban project. His royal mosque captured his unprecedented wealth, an art…
The Menier Chocolate Factory 38
The Menier Chocolate Factory 26m The Menier factory at Noisiel, outside Paris, was the largest chocolate factory in the world between 1870 and…
The Pyramid of Pharoah Djoser at Saqqara 39
The Pyramid of Pharoah Djoser at Saqqara 26m The Djoser pyramid, the work of legendary architect Imhotep, is the oldest in Egypt, and bears witness to…
The German Pavilion in Barcelona 40
The German Pavilion in Barcelona 26m How and why did this minimalist structure end up embodying 20th century modernity? Between rigor and free form,…
The SAS Royal Hotel 41
The SAS Royal Hotel 26m The SAS Royal Hotel tower marked Denmark's entry into post-war modernity. It is a major work that combines…
Roissy 1 42
Roissy 1 26m Opened in 1974, Roissy 1 was the first time architecture had entered the realm of airport construction. The…
The Maisons Castle 43
The Maisons Castle 26m Although its posterity has now rendered its image commonplace, the Maisons Laffitte Chateau revolutionized French architecture. It is…
The Luxembourg Philharmonic 44
The Luxembourg Philharmonic 26m The elliptical shaped Philharmonic, with its filter of white columns and colorful cliffs, houses the Grand Auditorium in…
VitraHaus 45
VitraHaus 26m In 2006, the company Vitra asked the "Herzog & de Meuron" agency to create a building for it's…
The Igualada Cemetery 46
The Igualada Cemetery 26m
The Citadel de Lille 47
The Citadel de Lille 26m Vauban's "Queen of the citadels" was the model for military construction all over France. Built between 1668 and…
The Sainte-Geneviève Library 48
The Sainte-Geneviève Library 26m Breaking away from the 19th century neoclassical trend, Henri Labrouste erected a powerful public building in which stone…
The Church of Notre-Dame du Raincy 49
The Church of Notre-Dame du Raincy 26m In a country ruined by World War I, Auguste Perret took up the challenge of building a church.…
Ewha, the Seoul Hidden University 50
Ewha, the Seoul Hidden University 26m With this building, Dominique Perrault continues a concept that is dear to him, the absence of architecture. The…
The Rolex Learning Center 51
The Rolex Learning Center 26m Poised on the shore of Lake Geneva, a wave of cement and glass has inspired many metaphors, from…
The National Dance Center 52
The National Dance Center 26m The mutation of a concrete mastodon, the Pantin Administrative Center (1969) into the French National Dance Center (2004)...…
The Cologne Cathedral 53
The Cologne Cathedral 26m Started in 1247, the Cologne Cathedral was completed in 1880 after a 300 year break in the work…
The Citadel of Leisure, the Pompeia Social Service Center 54
The Citadel of Leisure, the Pompeia Social Service Center 26m In the Palmeiras district of São Paulo, early 20th century former factory workshops are aligned with strange blocks…
The Hotels de Soubise and de Rohan 55
The Hotels de Soubise and de Rohan 26m From 1705 to 1752, the house of the Princes of Soubise was the setting for wild ambition and…
The French Communist Party Headquarters 56 ▶ Playing
The French Communist Party Headquarters 26m A mysterious white dome and an undulating glass facade, the headquarters of the French Communist Party, built between…
The Unal House 57
The Unal House 26m Designed by Claude Hausermann-Costy, and built by Joel Unal between 1972 and 2008, it's a bubble house without…
The Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam 58
The Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam 26m A cross between Taylorism and Bauhaus, the Van Nelle factory at Rotterdam was built between 1926 and 1931.…
The Glass Galleon 59
The Glass Galleon 26m On the fringes of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, a grand galleon with 12 glass sails, billowing…
Itimad-ud-Daulah, the Mughal Mausoleum 60
Itimad-ud-Daulah, the Mughal Mausoleum 26m The mausoleum of Itimad-ud-Daulah, built of white marble encrusted with semi-precious stones, in Agra the capital of the…
The Home for All at Rikuzentakata 61
The Home for All at Rikuzentakata 26m After Japan's 2011 tsunami, a group of architects led by Toyo Ito launched the "Home for All" project,…
The Wa Shan Guesthouse 62
The Wa Shan Guesthouse 26m The Wa Shan, literally "Tile Mountain", is an astonishing guesthouse, built by Chinese architect Wang Shu, who pursues…
The Glasgow School of Art 63
The Glasgow School of Art 26m Built at the dawn of the 20th century by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the Glasgow School of Art is…
The Sante, a Prison in Paris 64
The Sante, a Prison in Paris 26m La Sante prison (1861-1867) is a unique and impressive work of architecture. At the cutting edge of reflections…
The Bamboo School of Bali 65
The Bamboo School of Bali 26m An astonishing structure in which three cones flow together into one roof that protects a school building made…
Médiacité - a Designer Mall 66
Médiacité - a Designer Mall 26m Seen from the sky, a long stained-glass window structures the commercial center. At Médiacité, the experimental, provocative Israeli…
The Phillips Exeter Academy Library 67
The Phillips Exeter Academy Library 26m A masterpiece of geometry and of architectural precision, the library is one of Lous Kahn's last works. Louis…