Famed Swiss architect and artist Robert Maillart was renowned for his concrete bridges; this documentary examines the elegant design of his engineering masterpieces, which, the film argues, embrace both functionality and aesthetics. Instead of following a traditional journalistic structure, director Heinz Emigholz's spellbinding film reads more like ethereal visual poetry, allowing the beauty of Maillart's work to speak for itself.

In 1959, a government employee named Richard Oyler, living in the tiny desert town of Lone Pine, Cal...

One billion people on our planet—one in six—live in shantytowns, slums or squats. Slums: Cities of T...

Danish documentary about the disobedient schoolboy with a talent for painting, who became one of Den...

Minimalist documentary by Rax Rinnekangas about the wooden cottage "La Cabanon" designed and built i...

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriage...

The city of Ordos, in the middle of China, was build for a million people yet remains completely emp...
A documentary with and about the legendary Italian Architect Carlo Scarpa.

Documentary about Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi made for the BBC series "Visions of Space".

A portrait of the internationally acclaimed Japanese architect who employs Buddhist ideas and wester...

Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was committed to ecology and sustainabilit...

The documentary offers an overview of the district of Cidade Tiradentes and its inhabitants. It sta...

Alan Yentob profiles the most successful female architect there has ever been, the late Zaha Hadid, ...
The Survivors of the WW2 Battle of Arnhem tell their stories of the brutal and exhausting conflict.

Big Time gets up close with Danish architectural prodigy Bjarke Ingels over a period of six years wh...

Travel through the streets of Rochester and you’ll find some extraordinary architecture. From Califo...