From Timișoara in the final decades of communism to the changing city that emerged after 1989, architect Vlad Gaivoronschi journeys through several versions of Romania. Nearly fifty years of architecture come together in drawings, collective housing developments, single-family homes, public buildings, and fragments of the urban fabric, but above all,…
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…
The final film in Béla Tarr’s “proletarian trilogy”, which began with Family Nest (1979) and continued with The Outsider(1981), Prefab People paints an intimate portrait of a generation and a social class. Episodes from the family life of a working-class couple, Férj and Feleség, unfold in a non-linear structure: an…
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.
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.
The River and the Wall follows five friends on an immersive adventure through the unknown wilds of the Texas borderlands as they travel 1200 miles from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico on horses, mountain bikes, and canoes. Conservation filmmaker Ben Masters realizes the urgency of documenting the…
The crisis of housing is an acute problem at the beginning of the Romanian communist regime. Three homeless architects who are trying to find a place to sleep think about the way they can put as many people as possible in the new housing projects imposed by the government.
The Baaibuurt-West neighborhood in Amsterdam is undergoing a transformation to address the housing crisis in the Netherlands. The urban regeneration project involves raising the sinking ground with seven meters of sand to prepare the area for new residential buildings. The documentary captures the stories and spaces…
The Baaibuurt-West neighbourhood in Amsterdam is undergoing a transformation in response to the housing crisis in the Netherlands. The urban regeneration project involves raising the sinking ground level by adding seven metres of sand to prepare the area for new residential developments. The documentary captures the stories and spaces of…
In the context of the housing crisis, living together with several people under the same roof is sometimes the only option. Artist Susanna Tomassini explores young people’s perspective on collective living and how they come to share space, belongings, and inevitably, a part of their personal lives.
