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.

Finding their place between the forest and the sea, the Japanese have always felt awe and gratitude ...
Winy Maas, co-founder of MVRDV architects, always has 100 projects going at once. Documentary filmma...

Documentary on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture.

Dresden is famous for its attempt to meticulously reconstruct its once bombed-out historical center ...

A visual essay on contemporary Kiwi architecture.

Visiting examples of Herzog and de Meurons ground-breaking style, this film reflects their capacity ...

A biography documentary of the Argentine modernist architect Amancio Williams.

On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the...

Documentary about 4 large architectural landmarks that projected Portugal abroad.

Celebrating the splendor and grandeur of the great cinemas of the United States, built when movies w...

Kingdom of Granada, al-Andalus, 14th century. After recognizing that his land, always under siege, i...

The history of the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, an opera house located in the middle of the Amazon rai...

The testimony of an artist who continues to believe in the socialist ideal. The story of a man who l...

One week in the extraordinary-ordinary life of Mr. Moriyama, a Japanese art, architecture and music ...
Poème Électronique is an 8-minute piece of electronic music by composer Edgard Varèse, written for t...

In Search of Hy-Brasil contemplates the textures and rhythms of island life. It brings to the fore t...

In the heart of Paris, Île de la Cité once featured one of the most majestic palaces of medieval tim...

The Gateway Arch: A Reflection of America chronicles for the first time the complete story of this g...