1. Koolhaas Houselife
Koolhaas Houselife portrays one of the masterpieces of contemporary architecture. The film lets the viewer enter into the house's daily intimacy through the stories and daily chores of Guadalupe Acedo, the housekeeper, and the other people who look after the building. Pungent, funny and touching.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
2. Jujol - Gaudí: Two Geniuses of Architecture
Thousands of tourists come to Barcelona from far and wide to admire the work of the great architect, Antoni Gaudí. What they don't know is that many of the photographs they take home with them are of works by Josep Mª Jujol, a forgotten architect and the other great genius of Catalan Modernisme.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
3. Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper
Isamu Noguchi was a sculptor, designer, architect, and craftsman. Throughout his life he struggled to see, alter, and recreate his natural surroundings. His gardens and fountains were transformations meant to bring out the beauty their locations had always possessed.
4. Staré Valašsko (Staré Valašsko)
A short film about traditional crafts and culture that can still be found in the Wallachian mountains today.
5. Roger D'Astous (Roger D'Astous)
A documentary about montreal architect Roger D'astous, who battled all his life to create a nordic architecture. Starchitect in the 60s, this Frank L. Wright student then fell from grace before rising again at the dawn of the century.
6. Bardejov (Bardejov)
(Bardejov)
7. Dear Esther
In 1989, a woman writes a letter to her mentor. She reminisces about a life-changing campaign they spearheaded to save a historic home, Irving Gill's Walter Luther Dodge House in Los Angeles, twenty years prior.
8. Talking Architecture, City: Hall (말하는 건축 시티:홀)
A documentary film about Seoul City Hall Construction. The construction project has a hard going in every way. A city plan, excessive administrative notions, a design and all got mingled up. Can the project sail, yes?
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
9. Paris, les grands travaux de Napoléon (Paris, les grands travaux de Napoléon)
(Paris, les grands travaux de Napoléon)
10. L'île de la Cité, le cœur de Paris (L'île de la Cité, le cœur de Paris)
(L'île de la Cité, le cœur de Paris)
11. Paris : l'incroyable chantier de Haussmann (Paris : l'incroyable chantier de Haussmann)
(Paris : l'incroyable chantier de Haussmann)
12. Dva klenoty rané gotické architektury (Dva klenoty rané gotické architektury)
(Dva klenoty rané gotické architektury)
13. Space and Light
An award-winning wordless documentary that explores the architecture of the then new St. Peter's Seminary which is now seen as one of the most important post-war buildings in the United Kingdom. The film was made in celebration after architect Jack Coia was awarded the RIBA Gold Medal in 1969. Winner of the Medalla de Bronce at the Fifth Union of International Architects Festival in Madrid .
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
14. Kutná Hora (Kutná Hora)
(Kutná Hora)
15. Folkhemmets Estetik (Folkhemmets Estetik)
Documentary about the architecture of the Swedish housing boom in the 1960s and how it's viewed today.
16. Skyscraper
Nominated for an Academy Award, this live-action short film playfully chronicles the construction of the Tishman Building at 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
17. Architecture And Power
A history of Bucharest, as seen in the light of the totalitarian architecture, having as leading idea the reality that the Power always exposes its purposes through architecture. After five decades of communism, the reality on thee Dark Ages is still waiting to be revealed, and architecture is one of the most obvious embodiments of the ideology to whom it was builtÉ It is not a movie about faults or about guilty peoples, but about official edifices of thee communist Romania and their story.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
18. Soviet Bus Stops
“There’s a bus stop I want to photograph.” This may sound like a parody of an esoteric festival film, but Canadian Christopher Herwig’s photography project is entirely in earnest, and likely you will be won over by his passion for this unusual subject within the first five minutes. Soviet architecture of the 1960s and 70s was by and large utilitarian, regimented, and mass-produced. Yet the bus stops Herwig discovers on his journeys criss-crossing the vast former Soviet Bloc are something else entirely: whimsical, eccentric, flamboyantly artistic, audacious, colourful. They speak of individualism and locality, concepts anathema to the Communist doctrine. Herwig wants to know how this came to pass and tracks down some of the original unsung designers, but above all he wants to capture these exceptional roadside way stations on film before they disappear.
19. Twilight City
A fictional letter from a daughter, Olivia, to her mother in Dominica is the narrative thread connecting interviews from black and Asian cultural critics, historians and journalists. The choice of occupation for the daughter, a researcher, perhaps strains the narrative conceit too far. Nevertheless, for an avowedly political documentary the result is absorbing.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
20. O Arquitecto e a Cidade Velha (O Arquitecto e a Cidade Velha)
A documentary about Álvaro Siza Vieira in Cape Verde and his project to restore the old town of Ribeira Grande, the first city to be built by the Portuguese in Cape Verde on the island of Santiago in 1462.
