“Tomorrow you’ll move in an apartment building and you’ll be happy!”. China is building huge cities from ground in the middle of the desert. For the new residents, most of them coming from rural areas, the modern facilities are unknown. The documentary follows the story of populating a ghost town.
Geo, a young Roma coppersmith from Corcova village, Romania, lacks the means to support his wife and his 6-year old son. The farmers from the surrounding villages are not buying his copper handmade objects anymore – the copper brandy stills, trays and pots the Roma coppersmith families traditionally manufacture and…
Johann Schaas is the last member of the Saxon community in Richis, small village in Romania. He keeps the key to the evangelic church in his city. There is a tradition that only the finest man from the village can be the key-holder. Who will be Johann Schaas’s successor?…
In the heart of war-ravaged Mosul, a single marble gate stands amid the ruins. Carved into its stone are two lions—the last trace of what was once one of the city’s grandest homes along the Tigris River. Like thousands of historic buildings in Mosul’s Old City, the house is gone.
There are places where (reportedly) nothing happens. People left and never came back, others died, and a few remained. Nothing new under the sun: this is the story of industrialisation and urbanisation. But what is left behind? Or is it better to ask: who? From a forgotten village, somewhere…
An odyssey through the life and legacy of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, the innovative artist and educator whose pioneering approach to integrating technology into design continues to influence and inspire. In the 1920s, rising artist László Moholy-Nagy taught at the revolutionary Bauhaus school in Weimar, Germany, alongside luminaries like Paul Klee, Wassily…
A Belgrade apartment divided in two tells the story of a family and serves as a symbol of a country in political turmoil. The property was split on the orders of the then communist government when Srbijanka Turajlic, who was born here, was just two years old. The door leading…
In the year 1959, Richar Oyler, a public clerk from the small town of Lone Pine, California, requests that the well-known architect Richard Neutra build his house. To Oyler’s surprise, Neutra agreed. This was the start to a most unusual friendship which led to the creation of one of the…
An international tech entrepreneur purchases an impossibly narrow piece of steep mountain slope in Austria, where he grew up. The building site will only allow for a 4-meter-wide house. This challenge sparks the interest of well-known architect and founding partner of OMA Rem Koolhaas.
An international tech entrepreneur purchases an impossibly narrow piece of steep mountain slope in Austria, where he grew up. The building site will only allow for a 4-meter-wide house. This challenge sparks the interest of well-known architect and founding partner of OMA Rem Koolhaas.
Renzo Piano Building Workshop, with the original music by Fabrizio Campanelli, illustrates the birth, structure, set-up and relations with the Renzo Piano Foundation and the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, the purpose and the goals of the Archive. Drafts, sketches, models, renderings, drawings, particular techniques of completed structures – exhibited in…
Balkrishna Doshi (1927-2023) is one of India's most influential 20th century architects and recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Doshi and his practice Vastu-Shilpa has a portfolio spanning over 70 years, including collaborations with both Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn.
