Architecture History Movies

Documentary about the architecture of the Swedish housing boom in the 1960s and how it's viewed today.

No understanding of the modern movement in architecture is possible without knowledge of its master builder, Mies van der Rohe. Together with...

The documentary tells the story of Sydney Opera House architect Jørn Utzon's unique gift, brought to the world with the unending support of...

A smaller scale Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysées can be found just outside Shanghai; a copy of St. Peter’s in Rome can be found in...

For centuries, the Great Pyramids have fascinated Mankind. Patrice Pooyard's The Revelation Of The Pyramids reveals what lies behind the greatest of...

How can structures, which take up defined, rigid portions of space, make us feel transcendence? How can chapels turn into places of introspection?...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman province in Southern Gaul - Gallia...

"What we were trying to do was the ultimate form of architecture, which was predicting how society would use space, land and time." Curtis Schreier,...

Lutah explores the life of Lutah Maria Riggs, an forgotten architect who had a major impact on the development of Southern California.

A portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), a genius of modern architecture, whose life passed between glory, scandal and tragedy.

Based on the latest technological and scientific advances, this documentary explores the palace's architectural past to resurrect Louis XIV's...

"Chair Times" charts a course through an ocean of chairs. In the focus are 125 objects from the Collection of the Vitra Design Museum. Arranged...

Celebrating the splendor and grandeur of the great cinemas of the United States, built when movies were the acme of entertainment and the stories...

The work of Fernand Pouillon, "France's most wanted" architect after being imprisoned and mysteriously escaping in the 1960s, now seems to have faded...

Kingdom of Granada, al-Andalus, 14th century. After recognizing that his land, always under siege, is hopelessly doomed to be conquered, Sultan Yusuf...

One of the most significant cases in European archaeology is the grave of the shaman woman of Bad Dürrenberg, a key finding of the last...

Everyone knows the view of Via della Conciliazione with St. Peter's Basilica framed behind it. The most famous postcard of Rome, the background used...

From the cabinets of curiosities created in Italy during the 16th century to the prestigious cultural institutions of today, a history of museums...

On 20 October 1973, the Sydney Opera House was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II. From conception to completion, it had taken more than 15...