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1. How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster? (2010)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, Biography
The film traces the rise of one of the world's premier architects, Norman Foster, and his unending quest to improve the quality of life through design.
Directors: Carlos Carcas, Norberto López Amado | Stars: Norman Foster, Deyan Sudjic
Votes: 745 | Gross: $0.01M
2. Helvetica (2007)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary
A documentary about typography, graphic design, and global visual culture.
Director: Gary Hustwit | Stars: Manfred Schulz, Massimo Vignelli, Rick Poynor, Wim Crouwel
Votes: 8,170 | Gross: $0.20M
3. Art & Copy (2009)
TV-PG | 89 min | Documentary
ART & COPY is a powerful new film about advertising and inspiration. Directed by Doug Pray (SURFWISE, SCRATCH, HYPE!), it reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential ... See full summary »
Director: Doug Pray | Stars: Mary Wells, Dan Wieden, Hal Riney, Lee Clow
Votes: 1,850
4. Design & Thinking (2012)
74 min | Documentary
A documentary on design thinking and its impact on society and businesses.
Director: Mu-Ming Tsai | Stars: Sal Alito, Sara Beckman, George Beylerian, Andrew Brandeis
Votes: 87
5. Visual Acoustics (2008)
Unrated | 83 min | Documentary
Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, VISUAL ACOUSTICS celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the worldÕs greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream.
Director: Eric Bricker | Stars: Frances Anderton, Wim de Wit, Beth Edwards Harris, Frank Escher
Votes: 689 | Gross: $0.10M
6. All the World in a Design School (2015)
59 min | Documentary, Drama, News
What happens when traditionally generous and export-driven Sweden imposes steep tuition fees for non-Europeans students?
Director: Mattias Löw | Stars: Peter Alwin, Tony Catignani, Anna Costamagna, Thomas Degn
Votes: 1,306
7. My Architect (2003)
116 min | Documentary, Biography
Director Nathaniel Kahn searches to understand his father, noted architect Louis Kahn, who died bankrupt and alone in 1974.
Director: Nathaniel Kahn | Stars: Edmund Bacon, Edwina Pattison Daniels, Balkrishna Doshi, Frank Gehry
Votes: 3,321 | Gross: $2.75M
8. Kochuu (2003 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, History
KOCHUU is a visually stunning film about modern Japanese architecture, its roots in the Japanese tradition, and its impact on the Nordic building tradition. Winding its way through visions ... See full summary »
Director: Jesper Wachtmeister | Stars: Tadao Andô, Sverre Fehn, Kristian Gullichsen, Toyo Ito
Votes: 85
9. Rem Koolhaas: A Kind of Architect (2008)
Not Rated | 98 min | Documentary
Rarely has an architect caused as much sensation outside of the architecture community as Rem Koolhaas. His outstanding creations--such as the Dutch Embassy in Berlin, the Seattle Library ... See full summary »
Directors: Markus Heidingsfelder, Min Tesch | Stars: Dirk Baecker, Cecil Balmond, Rene Daalder, Chris Dercon
Votes: 99
10. The Human Scale (2012)
83 min | Documentary, News
Half of the human population lives in urban areas. By 2050, this will increase to 80%. Life in a megacity is both enchanting and problematic. Today we face peak oil, climate change, ... See full summary »
Director: Andreas Dalsgaard | Stars: Jan Gehl, Rob Adams, Robert Doyle, Lars Gemzøe
Votes: 795
11. Bauhaus: The Face of the 20th Century (1994 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
Traces the development of the Bauhaus movement (1919-1933) from its formation in Weimar by Walter Gropius to the establishment of the Bauhaus School in Dessau to its last stand in a derelict factory in Berlin.
Director: Julia Cave | Stars: Frank Whitford, Charles Jencks, Christopher Frayling, George Adams
Votes: 103
12. Frank Lloyd Wright (1998)
TV-PG | 146 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A biography of the life and work of the American architect.
Directors: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Edward Herrmann, Philip Bosco, Julie Harris, Sab Shimono
Votes: 917
13. The Belly of an Architect (1987)
R | 119 min | Drama
An architect supervising an exhibition starts to have mysterious stomach pains while his life slowly falls apart.
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Brian Dennehy, Chloe Webb, Lambert Wilson, Sergio Fantoni
Votes: 6,282 | Gross: $0.29M
14. First Person Singular: I.M. Pei (1997 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, History
90-minute special on the architect. Filmed throughout the world over a two-year period.
Director: Peter Rosen | Star: I.M. Pei
Votes: 82
15. The Competition (2013)
99 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
A raw account of how some of the best architects in the world, design giants like Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry or Zaha Hadid, struggle to beat the competition for the National Museum of Art in ... See full summary »
Director: Angel Borrego Cubero | Stars: Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel
Votes: 66
16. Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture (2010)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary
Documentary about the revolutionary and brilliant Chicago architect Louis Sullivan (1856-1924); his rapid rise to fame, tragic decline, and the ultimate triumph of his creative spirit.
Director: Mark Richard Smith | Stars: Madolyn Smith Osborne, Mark Richard Smith
Votes: 29
17. Regular or Super: Views on Mies van der Rohe (2004)
Not Rated | 56 min | Documentary
REGULAR OR SUPER is a fascinating and informative introduction to the work of Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), one of the 20th century's most influential architects, and a thought-provoking ... See full summary »
Directors: Patrick Demers, Joseph Hillel
Votes: 48
18. Rem (IV) (2016)
75 min | Documentary
A documentary about legendary architect and master provocateur Rem Koolhaas.
Director: Tomas Koolhaas | Star: Rem Koolhaas
Votes: 100
19. Jean Nouvel: Reflections (2016)
15 min | Documentary, Short
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jean Nouvel, among the most thoughtful, innovative, and rebellious architects of his generation, reflects on his work past and present. We see a master in ... See full summary »
Director: Matt Tyrnauer | Star: Jean Nouvel
Votes: 6
20. Architects Herzog and De Meuron: Alchemy of Building (2001)
52 min | Documentary
Swiss architects duo Pierre de Meuron and Jacques Herzog - spent their careers virtually rewriting the rules of their chosen field, by coupling a centuries-old art form with a spate of fresh and vital technical innovations.
Director: Beat Kuert | Stars: Pierre De Meuron, Jacques Herzog
21. Great Expectations (2007 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary
This film takes the viewer on a journey through possible and impossible architecture projects - from the beginning of the 20th century to today. From concrete illusions of grandeur to round... See full summary »
Director: Jesper Wachtmeister | Stars: Peter Cook, Jacque Fresco, Buckminster Fuller, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris
Votes: 56
22. Loos Ornamental (2008)
72 min | Documentary
Austrian architect Adolf Loos was one of the pioneers of European Modernist Architecture. Here, twenty-seven of his still existing building are explored.
Director: Heinz Emigholz
Votes: 73
23. Philip Johnson: Diary of an Eccentric Architect (1997 TV Movie)
55 min | Documentary, Biography
Stars: Philip Johnson, Frank Stella
Votes: 24
24. The World of Buckminster Fuller (1974)
TV-G | 85 min | Documentary
Architect, engineer, geometer, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome and the dymaxion car, Buckminster Fuller was renowned for his comprehensive perspective on the world's problems.
Directors: Baylis Glascock, Robert Snyder | Stars: Buckminster Fuller, Indira Gandhi
Votes: 42
25. Baukunst (2001–2017)
28 min | Documentary
23 episode documentary, each focusing on one distinguished building and its architect, from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Stars: François Marthouret, Guy Chapellier, Jean Nouvel, Peter Zumthor
Votes: 92
26. The Nature of Modernism: E. Stewart Williams, Architect (2014)
79 min | Documentary, Biography
E. Stewart Williams was a prolic modernist architect based in Palm Springs, California. Follow Williams' history and professional career, from the early days designing a home for Frank ... See full summary »
Director: Jake Gorst | Stars: Lauren Bricker, Tracy Conrad, Beth Edwards Harris, Amanda Erlinger
27. Unfinished Spaces (2011)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary
Cuba's ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro's Revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece.
Directors: Benjamin Murray, Alysa Nahmias | Stars: Vittorio Garatti, Roberto Gottardi, Ricardo Porro
Votes: 98
28. Making the Modern (2003)
60 min | Documentary
Fort Worth, Texas: a little known museum Mecca in the heart of the American West, home to three of the most important collections in the United States. Here in 1997, the Modern Art Museum ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Lynch | Stars: Kevin Alter, Tadao Andô, Peter Arendt, Michael Auping
Votes: 17
29. Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner (2008)
91 min | Documentary
Renowned architectural filmmaker Murray Grigor explores John Lautner's dramatic spaces with choreographed camera moves, as Lautner himself provides the commentary, speaking with insight and wit in recordings culled from archival sources.
Director: Murray Grigor | Stars: Sean Connery, Karol Lautner Peterson, Frank Gehry, Julia Strickland
Votes: 78
30. Ben Building: Mussolini, Monuments and Modernism (2016 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
Having previously investigated the architecture of Hitler and Stalin's regimes, Jonathan Meades turns his attention to another notorious 20th-century European dictator, Mussolini. His ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Hanly | Star: Jonathan Meades
Votes: 31
31. Joe Building: The Stalin Memorial Lecture (2006 TV Movie)
78 min | Documentary, History
Jonathan Meades examines the cult of Stalinism through its buildings and monuments.
Star: Jonathan Meades
Votes: 20
32. Jerry Building: Unholy Relics of Nazi Germany (1994 TV Movie)
37 min | Documentary, History, War
Jonathan Meades explores the architecture of Nazi Germany, from its holiday camps to its concentration camps.
Director: Russell England | Star: Jonathan Meades
Votes: 32
33. Schindler's Houses (2007)
99 min | Documentary
Rudolph Schindler built many houses across Southern California. Today, we ask what the houses say about the architect.
Director: Heinz Emigholz | Star: Christian Reiner
Votes: 51
34. Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move (1995)
56 min | Documentary, Biography
With the participation of famed architects such as Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move provides an intimate look into the work of the ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Blackwood | Stars: Stanley Aronoff, Michael Barz, Jay Chatterjee, Peter Eisenman
35. Oscar Niemeyer: A Vida é um Sopro (2009)
90 min | Documentary
A documentary on the life, works and philosophy of a genius and a human being of unique "largesse d'esprit".
Director: Fabiano Maciel | Stars: Chico Buarque, Carlos Heitor Cony, Lúcio Costa, Eduardo Galeano
Votes: 244
36. The Architecture of Doom (1989)
Not Rated | 119 min | Documentary, History
An absorbing and chilling documentary about the National Socialist aesthetic, and how attempts to create the Aryan Ideal caused the extermination of millions. Aspects covered include: ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Cohen | Stars: Rolf Arsenius, Bruno Ganz, Sam Gray, Martin Bormann
Votes: 1,137
37. Architects of the Divine: The First Gothic Age (2014– )
Documentary
Star: Janina Ramirez
Votes: 18
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