In his experimental short film "Brutalität in Stein" (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of inhuman and super-human scale to bolster the regime's politics of the same kind. Shots of huge neo-classical architectural structures from the Nazi period are confronted with equally anti-human national-socialist language as a voice-over.
A film essay investigating the question of what “the West” means beyond the cardinal direction: a mo...
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefen...
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefen...
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...
There are houses, and then there’s Ricardo Bofill’s house: a brutalist former cement factory of epic...
A native of the capital of Catalonia, the architect-urban planner, to whom we owe the Saint-Honoré m...
A documentary focusing on the rebuilding projects in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...
Constructing freestone buildings on the cheap, Pouillon made a name for himself at the end of the 19...
In this documentary, Marie-Claire Rubinstein reveals to us, through the testimonies of the inhabitan...
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu...
In 1959, a government employee named Richard Oyler, living in the tiny desert town of Lone Pine, Cal...
A core group of architects embraced the West Coast from Vancouver to LA with its particular geograph...
Best known for designing National Historic Landmarks such as St. Louis’ iconic Gateway Arch and the ...
In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of ...
How can structures, which take up defined, rigid portions of space, make us feel transcendence? How ...