Top 20 movies like The Living Stones of Sacsayhuamán

Sacsayhuamán, an ancient citadel amidst the Peruvian Andes, is an architectural marvel. It was built more than 900 years ago, and no living person knows how such large rocks were fitted so perfectly into walls. This documentary takes us on a tour of Sacsayhuamán, offering a brief history of the site, and clues that may help to its understand how it was made. It was edited from photos and video taken in July 2012, when Russian geophysicists conducted soil research there, at the request of Peru's Ministry of Culture.

Живые камни Саксайуамана is of 0 hour(s) and 40 minute(s). It is Produced By: Ombio Films. It was released on 2014-06-08.

Genres: Documentary

Top 20 Movies like The Living Stones of Sacsayhuamán

1. Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud

Filmmakers Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon profile Richard Buckminster Fuller, architect and inventor of the geodesic dome.

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2. Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line

Diller Scofidio + Renfro has long been at the forefront of design with provocative exhibitions that blurred the boundaries between art and architecture. This film captures their extraordinary evolution and unique process in reimagining the public identities of Lincoln Center and the once derelict High Line railroad tracks.

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3. Secrets of the Parthenon

For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its sculptures, and disfigured by catastrophic renovations. To save it from collapse, the modern restoration team must uncover the secrets of how the ancient Greeks built this icon of western civilization in less than nine years without anything resembling an architectural plan.

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4. Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move

With the participation of famed architects such as Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move provides an intimate look into the work of the daring and controversial creator. Filmed in the U.S. and Germany, Eisenman takes the viewer through several of his buildings, including the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, while explaining his upcoming projects such as the Rebstockpark community in Frankfurt and the Max Reinhardt monument in Berlin. His predecessors and contemporaries offer praise and commentary on Eisenman's complex body of work including their own thoughts and theories surrounding his unique style.

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5. Contrasts of Peru (Contrasts of Peru)

Peru is a country of many contrasts. From the cold waters of the Coast over the 6000 m high Andes to the unique biodiversity of the Amazon Jungle. Peru isn't only Machu Picchu. It's much more.

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6. The New Apartment (Die neue Wohnung)

A commissioned film for Schweizerischer Werkbund , Die neue Wohnung was produced for the Basel architectural and interior design exhibition, WOBA, to demonstrate innovative aspects of modern architecture and highlight their differences from the event’s highly conservative approach. Despite its ad campaign roots, Richter's touch is not absent; The surviving version, aimed at a "bourgeois" Swiss public, presents decluttered, functional architecture and decor as superior to the traditional and luxurious "ancient" ways of living.

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7. Avoir 16 ans et toutes ses Andes (Avoir 16 ans et toutes ses Andes)

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8. The Arch

A modern explorer leads us on a global journey to discover how nine of the world's greatest architects are shaping our future.

9. Ayahuasca and the Path of the Shaman

Desperate to recover from his depression, Dave travels from his home in British Columbia, Canada to Peru in order to experience the healing effects of the sacred medicine ayahuasca. After Dave spends some time in the country, a Shipibo healer begins to teach him how to work with the medicine more deeply.

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10. St. Peter's and the Papal Basilicas of Rome 3D (San Pietro e le Basiliche Papali di Roma)

The unveiled treasures in the year of the Extraordinary Jubilee. The Papal Basilicas of Rome seen as never before: St. Peter's, St. John in the Lateran, St Mary Major, St Paul Outside the Walls and the works of art enshrined within them. A film tour shot from previously unseen points of view with the latest-generation 3D and 4K technology.

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11. Ekodomy aneb Život v rovnováze (Ekodomy aneb Život v rovnováze)

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13. Buenos Aires al Pacífico (Buenos Aires al Pacífico)

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14. Tapavica (Tapavica)

A story about the first Serbian Olympian who won bronze medal at the first Olympic games in 1896, also a world class architect.

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15. O Arquitecto e a Cidade Velha (O Arquitecto e a Cidade Velha)

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16. Lost Pyramids of the Aztecs

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17. Vzácný klenot města Prahy (Vzácný klenot města Prahy)

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18. Bâtir (Bâtir)

After filming the construction site of the Berlitz Palace , Pierre Chenal shows us in contrast other contemporary architectural achievements which, using the same technical processes, do not sacrifice the structure of iron and concrete for decoration. A documentary to the glory of the modern designs of Mallet-Stevens and Le Corbusier.

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