His buildings are garish, colorful and completely overloaded. Columns and glittering chandeliers everywhere, and way too much of everything. The Bolivian civil engineer and architect Freddy Mamani Silvestre (*1971) builds houses in El Alto for a nouveau riche upper class of the Aymara, the largest indigenous ethnic group in Bolivia.
0 2010 HD
Documents the conflicts and tensions that arise between highland migrants and Mosetenes, members of an indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon....
8 1970 HD
7 2013 HD
A year in the life of one of America's most innovative classrooms where students design & build to transform their hometown community. The film...
0 1985 HD
Arata Isozaki: Early Work in Japan takes a detailed look at the architect's pieces, exploring applauded projects such as the EXPO '70 Osaka Festival...
0 1996 HD
0 1972 HD
A film in three movements. In the first one, we find a historical synthesis of Brazilian architecture, from the slaves' dwellings to the Ministry of...
0 2019 HD
Tadao Ando (b.1941) is a world-renowned architect, and a recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. His calm, minimalist architecture with elegant...
8.5 2020 HD
The six-decade transformation of a block of houses, shown by means of artfully featured archival shots, highlights the beauty and sadness of...
0 2019 HD
A documentary featuring internationally renowned photographer Toni Hafkenscheid as he explores hidden stories behind iconic architectural structures...
0 2011 HD
6 1987 HD
The Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898–1976) is one of the great figures of modern architecture, ranked alongside Gropius, Le Corbusier and...
0 2021 HD
Danish documentary about the disobedient schoolboy with a talent for painting, who became one of Denmark’s greatest architects. His ideas were...
7.5 1968 HD
In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new Brazilian capital city of Brasília....
0 1936 HD
The construction of the Obelisco in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
10 1970 HD
Widely considered an important milestone in Indian Architectural history, the Kanade brothers are a testimony of how life and work can coexist with...
0 2020 HD
On the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea lies one of the most megalomaniac projects built by the Nazis. The ‘Monster by the Sea’, a...
9 2024 HD
0 1993 HD
8 2020 HD
Inaugurated in 1986 by François Mitterrand, a link between the Louvre and Pompidou, Orsay houses the largest collection of Impressionist art...
0 1989 HD
In the same vein as Meri's other documentations, this one takes advantage of the glasnost policy to discuss the social and ecologic impact of the...
