Architecture Movies

PURSUING BEAUTY: The Architecture of Bernard Maybeck tells the story of a 19th century romantic who used 20th century materials to create buildings...

Poème Électronique is an 8-minute piece of electronic music by composer Edgard Varèse, written for the Philips Pavilion at the...

Through the story of a mason in Djenne, Komusa Tenapo, and his family, this documentary examines an African tradition of mud architecture in Mali....

China’s irresistible process of growth and its precariousness.

Standing before a decaying state hospital in the Aegean coastal town of Foça, "The Department of Ownerless Places" investigates the...

Exploring the politics behind architectural heritage, conservation and the state’s role as a custodian of culture, ‘The Tower of a...

The film highlighting the Dravidian temple architecture and bronze sculpture which attained the creative pinnacle during the rule of the Cholas in...

Utopian symbolic playgrounds from memories are interconnected through sharp, flickering lights.

The story of building the Golden Gate Bridge is as compelling as its ultimate success. Undaunted by treacherous tides, high winds, and predictions...

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

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

A documentary that transports individuals beyond a mosque's architecture, to a universe of thousands of years of tradition, spirituality and culture,...

This fascinating documentary explores the collaboration between Marion Mahony, the first registered woman architect in the world and the longest...

This film is an in-camera portrait of the place Ville Marie Royal Bank Building in Montréal.

Thousands of years before the Inca, a megalithic civilization was founded at Lake Titicaca which spread 500 miles to Cuzco, following a global flood...

Dan Cruickshank explores one of Britain’s last Victorian country homes, Tyntesfield, a Gothic fantasy frozen in time and a monument to the...

An electric doorbell, a cylindrical lock on the entrance door, and a peephole. A single-phase socket. A faience toilet bowl, a cistern, and a toilet...

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