A video of the office of Schemata Architects in Aoyama, Tokyo.

South Kilburn Estate which is located in Kilburne in northern London where Alison Brooks Architects conducts redevelopment. Designers and residents talk about 44 apartment houses completed in the first phase of the project.

The owner and architect talk about “Villa Engels” which Lucian Engels completed in 1958 and they renovated recently.

A documentary of Frank Gehry when he finished his own house.

A documentary released one year after the death of Zaha Hadid. Stakeholders and critics talk from early drawings to works of later years.

A minimal short documentary of a house until it landed on the ground.

A trailer of a documentary “Integral Man” depicting the relationship between James Stuart, a mathematician / violinist and his “Integral House” designed by Shim-Sutcliffe Architects.

Presentation of a sustainable housing development project “Empower Shack” by Urban-Think Tank for the slums of Cape Town, South Africa.

Short documentary that contains interview, drawings and works of architect Santiago Calatrava.

Short documentary following the activities of OMA’s think tank organization AMO.

A documentary of Canadian Robert Bezeau, who is constructing a village from over 1 million bottles on the Bocas del Toro Islands in Panama.

Designers and inhabitants talk about London’s “Grand Union Canal Walk Housing” designed by Nicholas Grimshaw.

Interview wit Wayne Adams and Catherine King, artists living on island they made in Vancouver Island, Canada.

TitanPointe, a windowless skyscraper in downtown Manhattan that was found to be the NSA’s spy hub by the Snowden document. A documentary on this buildings designed to withstand nuclear explosions.

In the first episode of our new series, Fear and Love, made in collaboration with the Design Museum, British architect John Pawson walks us through his superb reimagining of the former Commonwealth Institute in London’s South Kensington, which this week opens as the new home of the Design Museum. Read more on NOWNESS – bit.ly/2gK5ccQ

Barbicania is a feature-length film capturing a month-long immersion in the life of the Barbican Centre and Estate in London, one of the most representative achievements of brutalist architecture.
The film, built as a personal diary, recounts on a daily basis what the directors duo has discovered during their urban trip from the top floors of the towers to the underground levels of the art centre.
Barbicania invites you to discover the personalities, lifestyle and architectural landscapes that make the Barbican so special. Drawing an intimate human map of the place, the film questions the durability of this utopia of the 50s.
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“An original and clever cinematographic language which deeply innovates the architecture representation.” Icon Design
“Beka & Lemoine animate the fortress and turn the darkest building of London into a series of colourful short stories.” L’Espresso
“An intimate and lively filmic map of Barbican’s Brutalist masterpiece.” Domus
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More information on the project:
living-architectures.com/

The Infinite Happiness is a highly unusual architectural experience. The film takes us to the heart of one of the contemporary housing developments considered to be a new model of success: the giant “8 House” designed in 2009 by Danish architects BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group in the suburbs of Copenhagen.
Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine recount their month-long immersion inside this experiment of vertical village, nominated “World best residential building” in 2011.
As a Lego game, the film builds up a collection of life stories all interconnected by their personal relation to the building. Drawing the lines of a human map, the film reveals the building through an inner and intimate point of view. By showing the surprising results of this innovative social model, the directors question the architecture’s ability to create collective happiness.
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“Breathtaking! Politiken
“An ode to the social power of architecture!” Der Standard
““So original, so vivid and witty. Beka and Lemoine bring the gods down to earth.” Der Tagesspiegel
“Wonderful! Blessedly free of the customary documentary trappings.” Chicago Tribune
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More information on the project:
living-architectures.com/

In central Arizona there exists an experimental town called Arcosanti. It’s built on the principles of arcology, which combines architecture and ecology to envision a city that works in tandem with the Earth’s resources. In this short documentary, The Atlantic goes inside this distinctive urban space to understand how Arcosanti plans to reconstruct how humans envision cities.

Metric film about Mies Van Der Rohe
In order of appearance
Weissenhof Estate 1927
weissenhof2002.de/
Barcelona Pavillon 1929
miesbcn.com/
Villa Tugendhat 1930
tugendhat.eu/
Bauhaus 1930 (If you plan to visit, you can sleep in the former student room, a once in a lifetime experience)
bauhaus-dessau.de/
George Washington Bridge 1927
Clip from Prelinger Archives – archive.org/
Farnsworth House 1951
farnsworthhouse.org/
860-880 Lake Shore Apartments
860880lakeshoredrive.com/
S.R. Crown Hall 1956
arch.iit.edu/
Neue Nationalgalerie 1968 (from 2015 to 2019 in renovation)
smb.museum/en/museums-and-institutions/neue-nationalgalerie/home.html
I also filmed the Aachen Cathedral, Seagram Building, Chicago Federal Center, Toronto-Dominion Center, One IBM Plaza, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library but I have chosen not to include the footage in the film.
Mies Van Der Rohe and Martin Gropius interview: “Bauhaus Reviewed, 1919-1933”
Thanks to Yulia for helping me with the filming.
Alexandre Favre 2012 -2015

Although Goose Creek Tower appears plucked from the pages of a children’s book, Phillip Weidner’s home is anything but fictional. When he’s not working as one of Alaska’s top trial attorneys, this DIY architect is building his “poem to the sky.”

Six celebrated architects, including Bjarke Ingels, Liz Diller and Daniel Libeskind, here talk about what it’s like to build architecture that both matters and works in the iconic city of New York – from Ground Zero to The High Line.
“A building should not look like Lady Gaga,” says American architect Robert A.M. Stern (b. 1939), who feels that the city is made up of background and foreground buildings, and that it is important to learn how to let the buildings work together instead of isolating them.
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels (b. 1974) stresses how important it is to care about and understand the people one is designing for: “Architects need to re-insert architecture as something that people are interested in – not just architects – something that is important for society.”
“In a sense it was a non-site without ground to stand on.” American architect and founding partner of Snøhetta, Craig Dykers (b. 1961), talks about the challenging experience of building the 9/11 Memorial Museum Pavilion at Ground Zero.
According to American architect Thom Mayne (b. 1944), architecture is essentially “a way of thinking, exploring, inventing, making and participating in the world.”
American architect Liz Diller (b. 1954) discusses her fascinating project The High Line, which is a public park built on a historic freight rail line elevated plus 30 feet above the streets of Manhattan’s West Side.
“People stopped me: ‘Thank you Mr. Libeskind. You delivered what you promised’. They didn’t say anything else. They shook my hand. I thought that was the best compliment I could get.” Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind (b. 1946) shares his personal story of getting to work on such a poignant project as Ground Zero.
The interviews can be watched in full length at channel.louisiana.dk/topics/architecture
All interviews by Marc-Christoph Wagner, Kasper Bech Dyg and Jesper Bundgaard/Out of Sync.
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
Edited by: Klaus Elmer
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2016

Exploring American architect and educator Ray Kappe’s 4,000-square foot treetop abode in California for the latest In Residence.
Read the full feature on NOWNESS: bit.ly/1tkhSp7
A film by Matthew Donaldson matthewdonaldson.com