The Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898–1976) is one of the great figures of modern architecture, ranked alongside Gropius, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe. This film analyses Aalto’s uniquely successful resolution of the demands and possibilities created by new technology and construction materials with the need to make his buildings sympathetic both to their users and to their natural surroundings. His inventive use of timber in particular represents both a reference to the forest landscape of Finland and a building material that is ‘warm’ and extremely adaptable. Filmed in Finland, Italy, Germany and the USA, this documentary shows how the Finnish natural environment and art traditions were essential elements in Aalto’s pioneering harmonization of technology and nature.
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A core group of architects embraced the West Coast from Vancouver to LA with its particular geograph...
A documentary featuring internationally renowned photographer Toni Hafkenscheid as he explores hidde...
Tadao Ando (b.1941) is a world-renowned architect, and a recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Priz...
A film essay investigating the question of what “the West” means beyond the cardinal direction: a mo...
Mothers, architects, artists, shoppers and other women who live and work in Birmingham explore the c...
A portrait of Benny Fredriksson who for 16 years was CEO of Kulturhuset / Stadsteatern. He also had ...
A building lost in the midst of a 5 000 hectare park, that's the equivalent of the surface of Paris,...
A documentary film conceived as a virtual dialogue and musical journey in four acts, which investiga...
In the same vein as Meri's other documentations, this one takes advantage of the glasnost policy to ...
The memory of Piero Portaluppi, a Milanese architect who reached the peak of his fame during the 20 ...
Architecture is often seen from the outside, as an inanimate object represented in still imagery. ‘R...
Bauta is a short documentary that explores public, monumental buildings in Norway - stone and concre...
A visual journey through Norwegian modernist church architecture. A short documentary film that pays...
In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new ...
A homage to the social housing architecture that is so atypical of Hong Kong - especially the Kwai S...
A documentary focusing on the rebuilding projects in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall.