Kisho Kurokawa From Metabolism to Symbiosis

"Hello. I'm Itami Jun. I apologize for my poor Korean." Itami Jun (Yoo Dongryong),a Korean architect who was born in Japan. This film follows his lif...

The Nakagin Capsule Tower, designed by Kisho Kurokawa and completed in 1972, is an exemplary work of post-war Japanese architectural movement Metaboli...

The artistry and architecture of Bruce Goff reflects his innate ability to transform simple shapes and materials into imaginative, embellished artwork...

Through a blend of Japanese history and Western influence, Arata Isozaki has built a career around his boldly distinctive architectural style. Constan...

A film essay investigating the question of what “the West” means beyond the cardinal direction: a model of society inscribed itself in the Federal Rep...

Urban architecture as seen through the eyes of four female veterans in the field.

One billion people on our planet—one in six—live in shantytowns, slums or squats. Slums: Cities of Tomorrow challenges conventional thinking to propos...

A documentary about the 1968 explosion in the residential Ronan Point tower in East London. The building had only been opened for several weeks when a...

This documentary follows 200 days in the life of contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto— a leading presence in the world of modern art. He is the winner...

For most of America's history, sacred buildings represented our greatest feats of innovative engineering and artistic design. Unlock the elements of...

25 BIS is an intimate portrait of a masterpiece from the beginning of Auguste Perret’s career: the building located on 25 Bis, Rue Franklin in Paris....

Not many people know that there is in the center of Hong Kong, a city of 50,000 inhabitants that escape authority, a city which holds no law and no or...

Schaub and Schindelm’s documentary follows two Swiss star architects, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, on two very different projects: the nationa...

A portrait of the renowned Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto by the radical experimental filmmaker Eino Ruutsalo. Shot in the summer of 1972...

Inaugurated in 1986 by François Mitterrand, a link between the Louvre and Pompidou, Orsay houses the largest collection of Impressionist art in the wo...