Gray Hustwit's design film series

 

Film Description

 

1. Helvetica

is the feature-length documentary about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface, Helvetica, one of the most widely used typefaces of the 20th century, which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007, as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Helvetica encompasses the worlds of design, advertising, psychology, and communication, and invites us to take a second look at the thousands of words we see every day.

 

2. Objectified

Filmmaker Gary Hustwit takes an in-depth look at industrial art and the design processes of some of society's most iconic consumer durables. The film includes interviews with designers from London, Tokyo, Paris and New York including Jonathan Ive from Apple computers and Japanese product designer Naoto Fukasawa.

 

3. Urbanized

The final documentary in director Gary Hustwit's design film trilogy (Helvetica, Objectified), Urbanized features some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, and thinkers discussing urban design.

 

Who is allowed to shape our cities, and how do they do it? And how does the design of our cities affect our lives? By exploring a diverse range of urban design projects in dozens of cities around the world, from massive infrastructure initiatives to temporary interventions, Urbanized frames a global discussion on the future of cities.

 

 

Film Information

Director - Gary Hustwit

Produced - 2006 / 2009 / 2011

Main Language - English

Countries & Regions - American film

 

 

 

Project Japan: Metabolism Talks 

By Rem Koolhaas & Hans Ulrich Obrist 
Publisher: Taschen 

 

 

Contents

007 Acknowledgments
011 Rem Koolhaas Movement (1)
017 Hans Ulrich Brist Movement (2)
022 Note on the text
024 Arata Isozaki
056 Tabula Rasa
084 Toshiko Kato
102 Tange Lab
128 Kiyonori Kikutake
174 Birth of a Movement
206 Metabolism 1960
222 Noboru Kawazoe
266 Tokyo Bay
294 Fumihiko Maki
334 On the Land, on the Sea, in the Air
372 Kisho Kurokawa
440 Media Architects
474 Kenji Ekuan
506 Expo ’70
550 Takako Tange Noritaka Tange
590 Expansion/Exile
638 Atsushi Shimokobe
660 Project Japan
696 Postscript: Toyo Ito
699 Project Japan 1940-1985: Timeline
706 Image Credits
710 Index
717 Cast of Characters

 

 

 

Tange died in 2005, the very year we began our interviews, and had withdrawn from public life almost a decade earlier. Like Tokyo, a mass surrounding a central void, this mass of conversation is constructed in his absence. But it is a book about him. Without Tange, no Metabolism.”
Rem Koolhaas

 

Photo © Kikutake Architects
1958 Nascent Metabolists, and their mentor Kenzo Tange, gather at Kikutake’s housewarming party for his recently completed Sky House.

 

Hans Ulrich Obrist: With Metabolism, it was a joint manifesto, or rather, a polyphony of voices. There wasn’t one manifesto which everybody signed - or was there? It would be really interesting to identify the glue of this movement, and to know what it was that the writers in the group held in common.

Kiyonori Kikutake: The person who brought us together and who unified us was Noboru Kawazoe. He was a critic and the editor of a magazine called Shinkenchiku (Japan Architect), and he worked hard to tie us together in a single whole. He was our leader, our lynchpin. I hardly knew any of the other architects who became Metabolists. And it is worth adding Kawazoe’s wife was our editor, and whenever she said gather around, we all hurried right over.

 

Photo © Kiyonori Kikutake
Kiyonori Kikutake, Ikebukuro Plan (1962).

 

“By giving them rides in my car I was showing them exactly what industrial design was all about. They’d often comment on how constrained architecture was. Kikutake would complain that architecture is no movement, it’s not dynamic...”
Kenji Ekuan

 

Photo © Kenji Ekuan
Kenji Ekuan, Dwelling City, 1964. Collage.

 

“It was a group of very strong egos, so we got into any number of fights along the way....”
Noburo Kawazoe

“I thought they were like children, so I thought it was my task to raise them...As a parent.”
Atsushi Shimokobe

“We always feel...not pressure necessarily, but an urgency from tradition...”
Fumihiko Maki

“Architects were living in such a small world and I thought this was foolish...”
Kisho Kurakawa

 

Photo © Kisho Kurokawa
Kisho Kurokawa, Helix City, 1962.

 

“The only doubt I had about the Metabolists was that these architects had no skepticism toward their utopia; they represented only a form of progressivism. I thought they were too optimistic. They really believed in technology, in mass production; they believed in systematic urban infrastructure and growth.”
Arata Isozaki

 

Photo © Asada Collection, Tohoku University of Art & Design, Library
The World Design Conference, Tokyo, 1960

 

Toshiko Kato
Kenzo Tange first wife.

Rem Koolhaas: From your point of view, how would you describe Kenzo Tange as an architect?
Toshiko Kato: Well, what I would remark is that he was always thinking not only of architecture but of society at large. As I mentioned, he collaborated with a variety of artists; he launched the Design Committee, with the intention of improving the quality of life; and he organized Rei-no-kai (that group), which worked to elevate the social status of architects. As such, he always thought about the big picture before his own situation. That’s what I’d like everyone to remember about Tange.

 

Photo Courtesy Mai Asada
Tange gathers his progeny - from Metabolism and Tange Lab - in social as well as professional settings…1961

Takako Tange & Noritaka Tange
Kenzo Tange’s second wife and stepson who succeeded him as President of Kenzo Tange Associates in 1997.

 

Rem Koolhaas: We have discussed some of Tange’s qualities, but for me, it is mysterious how somebody with such an obviously strong character can find so many supporters. Usually strong characters put people off. What was it in his character that drew so much support?
Takako Tange: I would assume it was because my husband was a good person. As they say, a good person attracts good people.
Rem Koolhaas: But was he kind?
Noritaka Tange: Yes
Rem Koolhaas: Was he funny?
Noritaka Tange: Oh, he was not funny; he was very serious. But he was very charming in his own way.
Rem Koolhaas: Was he very formal?
Noritaka Tange: Very sincere and very formal. he only had a suit and a pajamas in his life and nothing in between. If he had one spot on his suit, he would excuse himself and change the entire outfit. But that was cute in a way. Isn’t that sweet in his own way?

“It has been a gripping experience, to meet, at this point in my life, the protagonists of an older movement - sharing revelations - a radical memento mori, extended over six years of interviews, a confrontation with mortality in a profession that aspires to eternal life...Perhaps old age requires strategy more than any other period in life. The conversations demonstrated touchingly that it is more crucial to exploit your limitations than to survive your gifts. As memory weakens, vision is the only option.”
Rem Koolhaas

“The challenges of sustainability demand that cultural production today reclaims its old sense of ambition and scale; that it once again embraces the possibilities of total design. Bruno Latour has recently called for an expanded role for design that extends “from the details of daily objects to cities, landscapes, nations, cultures, bodies, genes, and...to nature itself,” welcoming this as a new political ecology that might “ease modernism out of its historical dead end.” This is not to say that we should resurrect anything like the monolithic aesthetic schemes of modernism itself, but rather that we should borrow from their ambition in order to form our own dynamic, shifting, and alterable institutions and spaces of the future.”
Hans Ulrich Obrist

Project Japan features hundreds of never-before-seen images - master plans from Manchuria to Tokyo, intimate snapshots of the Metabolists at work and play, architectural models, magazine excerpts, and astonishing sci-fi urban visions - telling the 20th century history of Japan through its architecture, from the tabula rasa of a colonized Manchuria in the 1930s to a devastated Japan after the war, the establishment of Metabolism at the 1960 World Design Conference in Tokyo, to the rise of Kisho Kurokawa as the first celebrity architect, to the apotheosis of Metabolism at Expo ’70 in Osaka and its expansion into the Middle East and Africa in the 1970s. The result is a vivid documentary of the last moment when architecture was a public rather than a private affair.

 

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Kenzo Tange. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (1995), Yoyogi National Gymnasia, icon of the Tokyo Olympics (1964), Big Roof at Expo ’70 Osaka (1970)

 

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Tange presents plan for Tokyo (1961)

 

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Kisho Kurokawa’s Capsule building

 

 

 

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Architect Rem Koolhaas – author of Delirious New York – and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist – known for his exhibitions and his “endless conversation” with hundreds of artists and thinkers, racking up 2,000 hours of interviews since 1990 – will discuss their new book Project Japan, part oral history and part documentation of Japan’s radical mode of nation building. The event will take place March 8th at 7:00pm at the NYPL (New York Public Library) in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. More information on the event after the break.

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In trialogue with Paul Holdengraber, Koolhaas and Obrist will explore the many lessons of Metabolism – the first non-western avant-garde movement – for today: how an activist state mobilized its best talents and meticulously planned the future of its cities, how the media adopted the architect as a serious agent of social change (rather than the hyped “starchitect”), how various disciplines – architecture, art, sociology, technology – collaborated to produce something new.

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Between 2005 and 2011, architect Rem Koolhaas and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed the surviving members of Metabolism—the first non-western avant-garde, launched in Tokyo in 1960, in the midst of Japan’s postwar miracle.

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Project Japan features hundreds of never-before-seen images—master plans from Manchuria to Tokyo, intimate snapshots of the Metabolists at work and play, architectural models, magazine excerpts, and astonishing sci-fi urban visions—telling the 20th century history of Japan through its architecture, from the tabula rasa of a colonized Manchuria in the 1930s to a devastated Japan after the war, the establishment of Metabolism at the 1960 World Design Conference in Tokoy, to the rise of Kisho Kurokawa as the first celebrity architect, to the apotheosis of Metabolism at Expo ’70 in Osaka and its expansion into the Middle East and Africa in the 1970s. The result is a vivid documentary of the last moment when architecture was a public rather than a private affair.

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난 누군가가 가진 저마다의 아픔, 슬픔들이 비교될 수 없는 각자에게 절대적인 것이란 말에 그다지 공감하지 않는다.
각자의 처지, 상황에서 겪고, 느끼고, 아픈 그 모든 것들조차 결국은 상대적인 것들에 대한 결과인 경우가 대부분이기 때문이다. 무엇을 생각하고, 말하고, 고민하고, 아파하는 수많은 것들이 각기 다른 것들이기에 결국 같음이 없어 비교될 수 없는 것임에도 불구하고 우린 비슷한 상황, 그 결과들에 빗대어 자신을 바라보는 방식에 익숙해져 절대성을 결국 상대성을 통해 얻어내려는 오류를 범하며 그 속에서 신음하는 경우가 많다.
결국 전부 상대적인 것들에서 온 것들이라면 그것이 절대적이라 말하는 것이 옳을까?

난 그냥 단순하게 바라보고, 이해되지 않는 것들에 대해 굳이 이해한다커니 말하고 싶지 않다.
모르면 모르는 대로, 알게되면 알게된 딱 그만큼만 안다 말하는 것이 내겐 공감인지도 모르겠다.
어릴 땐 참 많이도 속여왔다. 모르면서 마치 아는척, 이해하는 척, 글로 배우고 말로 들은 것을 마치 내 것인양 포장하면 그것이 정말 내 것이 될 수 있을거라고 착각했었다. 꼬마 애가 자기의 잘못을 숨기려 이런 저런 거짓말을 하지만 결국 어른의 눈에는 그 거짓말들이 훤히 다 보인다는 것을 모르는 것처럼.

오늘 본 영화에 등장한 두 주인공은 굳이 애를 쓰며 서로에 대해 알려고 하지 않았지만 친구가 되었다. 
사지마비의 고통을 알아달라 호소하지 않았으며, 두터운 부를 부러워하지 않았다.
남들의 말로 단정짓지 않았으며, 남들의 방식을 따라서 대하지 않았다.
건강한 몸을 부러워하며 자괴감에 빠질까 지레 걱정하며 몸을 사리는 것이 아니라 그 앞에서 미친듯 춤을 췄으며,
유명한 클래식 연주를 커피광고의 배경음악, 톰과 제리 만화음악 정도로 밖에 모른다고 무시하지 않았다.
예술이 인간보다 앞선 유일한 것이라는 안목은 
마구 문질러댄 몇번의 붓질과 흩뿌려 흘러내린 몇번의 물감칠을 재능으로 바라봐 주었으며
면도날로 떠올린 죽음을 수염을 마구 잘라내는 장난으로 지워버리고 귀를 즐겁게 해 줄 사람을 선물해 주었다.    
서로의 상황과 처지를 비교하지 않고 그냥 받아들였고 하나하나 알아가면서 그냥 진심으로 대했다.
진심.

다 알아야 할 필요도 없고, 모르는 걸 아는체 할 필요도 없고, 
이해하지 못하는 것을 이해하는 척 할 필요도 없이 
그냥 서로의 다른 생각, 시각으로 솔직하게 대하는 것.
지식의 차이도 문제될 것이 없고, 
문화의 차이도 장애가 되지 않으며, 
지위고하를 막론할 수 있음이다.

말하지 않아도 아는 것이 아니라 말하지 않아도 되는 것.

goodbye yale and cornell~^^

마음과 달리 몸이 먼저 반응을 한다.
하루 꼬박을 앓고 나서야 겨우 일어났다.
하루종일을 누워있어서였을까? 허리가 끊어질 듯 아파온다.

그간 앓던 감기는 이때를 놓치지 않고
다시 나를 집어삼켰다.
배즙, 토봉령, 생강차, 중국차 등 
나름 감기잡는 온갖 약재들도 힘을 못쓰는 듯.
결국 감기와 한달을 함께하고 있다.
 
우연의 일치라고 하기에는 너무나도 절묘한 타이밍에
찾아온 앓이는 많은 생각을 하게 한다.
이제 겨우 처음이다. 
나머지 열번의 이야기가 또 한번 나를 성숙시켜주길 기대해본다.

Dear Min-Gu JANG,

We regret to inform you that after careful consideration of your application, the Admissions Committee is unable to offer you admission to the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.  We would like to underscore that the Committee is keenly aware that there are many strong candidates whom we are unable to admit.

We very much appreciate your interest in the Graduate School of Design and wish you the best in your educational and career pursuits.

Sincerely,                                                                                      

Gail Gustafson and Geri Nederhoff
Directors of Admission 

더이상 눈시울이 붉어질 감정이 사라질까봐 두려웠었나보다.
누구보다 강한 나라며 상황과 환경들에 약해질까 무서웠었나보다.
힘에 겨울 만큼, 차디찬 겨울이니만큼
마음이 차가워질까 그렇게 떨었었나보다.

앞마당 조그만 화단에 동전을 심어두었던 철없던 아이. 
자존심 강하지만 평범했던 아이.
보이기 위해 숨기는 것이 익숙했던 아이.
숨기기 위해 속이는 것이 쉬웠던 아이.

여전히 아이.


어느덧 서른.
또 그렇게 시작.

86년 한장의 사진.

“Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.”

BENETTON NURSERY, TREVISO (ITALY) 2007

A BOX OPEN TO THE SKY
We built a square box composed of nine smaller squares. The center square emerges to
bring light from the heights of the vestibule. The classrooms are arranged in the surrounding
squares.
This square structure is inscribed within a larger, circular enclosure made up of double
circular walls. Open to the sky, four courtyards are created that suggest the four elements:
air, earth, fire and water.
The space between the perimeter walls serves as a “secret” place for the children. The
courtyard spaces, tensed between the curved and the straight walls, are particularly
remarkable.
The central space, the highest and with light from above, recalls a hamman in the way it
gathers sunlight through nine perforations in the ceiling and three more on each of its four
façades.
The children have understood the building well, and a book has even been published of their
impressions. They are happy there.


SKETCH

PLAN

IMAGE

GUERRERO HOUSE, VEJER DE LA FRONTERA, CÁDIZ (SPAIN) 2005

To build a well-balanced house full of light and shade.

We built very tall, 8 meter high, walls around a
33 x 18 meter rectangle and covered the central strip, 9 x 18 meters. We raised the ceiling of the 9 x 9 central square to the same height as the 8 meter high outside walls. To fill this central space with shade, we opened it to the front and back, creating 3 meter deep porches that protect these openings from the sun, tempering the light. To either side, bedrooms and baths.

In the front courtyard, the entrance to the house, four orange trees mark the central and main axis,
flanked by low walls that hide service areas. In the back courtyard, another four orange trees are
similarly aligned. And at the end, carved into the ground, a trough like pond stretches from side to
side.

The house is the construction of a luminous shadow.

SKETCH

PLAN

MODEL

 

IMAGE

 

DAVID REPORT_ Design, Culture , business 아이디어에 대한 비평과 트렌드를 분석한 Report

 ARCHITECTURE SERIES(1-23)

23편+6편, 총 29편으로 구성된 본 시리즈는 학부시절, 현대건축사 수업을 들으며 La Tourette자료는 찾는 중에 우연히 구하게 되어 볼 수 있었던 자료이다. 그 땐 사실 이 자료가 가지고 있는 내용보단 하나하나 힘들게 모아 전체 시리즈를 완성시킨것에 더 뿌듯해 했었던 것 같다.
 
각 작품에 대한 배경과 컨셉, 구성방식, 특징 등을 모형을 통해 보여주기도 하며 그 건축가의 직접적인 인터뷰나 남아있는 기록을 토대로 설명해주기 때문에 하나의 작품을 이해하기에 더할 나위 없이 좋은 자료라 생각한다. 
본 시리즈에 담겨진 작품들도 건축을 공부하는 학생이라면 꼭 한번은 공부해야 할만한 것들이어서 추천에 마지않는 자료이다.

다만 아쉬운 점은 자막이 없이 원어로 봐야 한다는 정도이다. (사실 학부시절 자막 작업을 시도해보긴 했지만 짧은 영어실력의 한계로 마무리 하지 못한 것이다.) 시간이 허락하고, 실력이 허락되는 때 즈음 꼭 마무리를 하고 싶은 자료이다.


CONTENTS
1. LE BAUHAUS DE DESSAU : The Dessau Baubaus
   - Walter Gropius (1919)
2. L'ÉCOLE DE SIZA : Faculty of Architecture in Porto
   - Alvaro Siza (1995)
3. LE FAMILISTERE DE GUISE : Family Lodging in Guise
   - Jean Baptiste Andre Godin (1904)
4. NEMAUSUS 1 : Nemausus 1
   - Jean Nouvel (1985~1987)
5. LE CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU : The Georges Pompidou Center
   - R. Rogers & R. Piano (1971~1977)
6. LA CAISSE D'ÉPARGNE DE VIENNE : The Vienna Post Office Savings Bank
   - Otto Wagner (1904~1912)
7. LE BATIMENT JOHNSON : Johnson and Wax Administration Building
   - Frank Lloyd Wright (1937)
8. LA GALLERIA UMBERTO I : Galleria Umberto
   - Emanuele Rocco (1887~1891)
9. SATOLAS - TGV : Lyon-Satolas Airport Railway Station
   - Santiago Calatrava (1994)
10. LES THERMES DE PIERRE : Therme Vals
   - Peter Zumthor (1993~1996)
11. L'ÉCOLE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE PARIS : Ecole National School of Beaux Arts in Paris
   - Felix Duban (1830)
12. LE MUSSE JUIF DE BERLIN : The Jewish Museum in Berlin
   - Daniel Libeskind (1993~1998)
13. L'OPERA GARNIER : The Opera Garnier in Paris
   - Charles Garnier (1862~1875)
14. LE COUVENT DE LA TOURETTE : The Cloister La Tourette
   - LE Corbusier (1957~1960)
15. LA CASA MILÁ : The Casa Mila
   - Antoni Gaudi (1910)
16. L'AUDITORIUM BUILDING DE CHICAGO : Auditorium Building in Chicago
   - Louis Sullivan & Dankmar Adler (1885~1889)
17. LE CENTRE MUNICIPAL DE SÄYNÄTSALO : Saynatsalo Community Center in Finland
    - Alvar Aalto (1949~1952)
18. LA SALINE D'ARC ET SENANS : Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans
   - Claud Nicolas Ledoux (1775~1779)
19. LA MAISON DE VERRE : The House of Glass
   - Pierre Chareau (1928~1931)
20. LA MAISON DE JEAN PROUVE : The House of Jean Prouve
   - Jean Prouve (1950~1951)
21. LA MEDIATHEQUE DE SENDAÏ : The Sendai Media Center
   - Toyo Ito (2001)
22. L'ABBATIALE SAINTE FOY DE CONQUES : Abbey Church of St. Foy in Conques
   - Abbot Odolric (1050~1120)
23. LE MUSEE GUGGENHEIM DE BILBAO : The Bilbao Guggenheim Museum
   - Frank O. Gehry (1997)

 

Final list up

 

Architectures 01 Walter Gropius: The Dessau Bauhaus
Gropius' extensive facilities for the Bauhaus at Dessau combine teaching, student and faculty members' housing, an auditorium and office spaces.

 

Architectures 02 Alvaro Siza: The Siza School of Architecture
The buildings of the Porto architecture school are set on a terraced site high above the estuary of the Douro River.

 

Architectures 03 Jean-Baptiste Andre Godin: Family Lodging in Guise
The Familistere forms a town within the town of Guise. It comprises, in addition to a large factory, three large buildings, each four stories high, capable of housing all the work-people.

 

Architectures 04 Jean Nouve: Nemausus 1
In Nimes, France, Jean Nouvel designed a block of tenement houses that looks like a passenger ship. An architectural utopia that pokes fun at the cliches of public housing.

 

Architectures 05 Renzo Piano & Richard Rogers: The Georges Pompidou Centre
The building had many critics upon completion but is now universally hailed as one of the masterworks of "high tech" architecture.

 

Architectures 06 Otto Wagner: The Vienna Savings Bank
The building is regarded as an important early work of modern architecture, representing Wagner's first move away from Art Nouveau and Neoclassicism. It was constructed between 1904 and 1906 using reinforced concrete.

 

Architectures 07 Frank Lloyd Wright: Johnson Wax Administrative Building
Both the Administration Building and the later Research Tower are of brick and glass. The main office work space is articulated by dendriform columns capable of supporting six times the weight imposed upon them, a fact Wright had to demonstrate in order to obtain a building permit.

 

Architectures 08 La Galleria Umberto I
Galleria Umberto is a public gallery in Naples. It was designed by Emanuele Rocco. It was meant to combine businesses, shops, cafes and social life - public space- with private space in the apartments on the third floor.

 

Architectures 09 Santiago Calatrava: Satolas-TGV
The Lyon-Satolas Station is the terminus for the TGV trains connecting the airport to the city of Lyon. 30 kilometers to the south.

 

Architectures 10 Peter Zumthor: The Thermae of Stone
In the 1960s a German property developer, Karl Kurt Vorlop, built a hotel complex with over 1.000 beds to take advantage of the naturally occurring thermal springs and the source, which provides the water for Valser mineral water, sold throughout Switzerland.

 

Architectures 11 Felix Duban: Ecole des Beaux-Arts
Duban's most visible work is the main building of the Ecole, undertaken in 1830. The main building, the Palace of Studies, was designed with integral paintings and interior sculpture for artists' education.

 

Architectures 12 Daniel Libeskind: Jewish Museum Berlin
The design is based on a rather involved process of connecting lines between locations of historic events and locations of Jewish culture in Berlin. Libeskind has used the concepts of absence. Emptiness, and the invisible - expressions of the disappearance of Jewish culture in the city - to design the building.

 

Architectures 13 Charles Garnier: The Opera Garnier
A grand landmark designed by Charles Garnier in the Neo-Baroque style. it is regarded as one of the architectural masterpieces of its time.

 

Architectures 14 Le Corbusier: The Cloister La Tourette
Sainte Marie de La Tourette is a Dominican priory in a valley near Lyon. France designed by the architect Le Corbusier and constructed between 1956 and 1960. La Tourette is considered one of the more important buildings of the late Modernist style.

 

Architectures 15 Antoni Gaudi: The Casa Mila
Casa Mila, better known as La Pedrera (Catalan for 'The Quarry'), is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi and built in the years 1906?1910. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Works of Antoni Gaudi".

 

Architectures 16 Sullivan & Adler: Auditorium Building Chicago
The Auditorium Building of Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois is one of the best-known designs of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan.

 

Architectures 17 Alvar Aalto: The Community Center of Saynatsalo Finland
The Saynatsalo Town Hall is a multifunction building complex designed by Alvar Aalto, It was completed in 1951. The complex houses the local council, a library, government offices and residential spaces.

 

Architectures 18 Claude-Nicolas Ledoux : The Saline of Arc-et-Senans
The Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans is considered Ledoux's masterpiece. The initial building work was conceived as the first phase of a large and grandiose scheme for a new ideal city.

 

Architectures 19 Pierre Chareu: Maison de Verre
The Maison de Verre (French for House of Glass) was built from 1928 to 1931 in Paris. France. Constructed in the early modern style of architecture, the house's design emphasized three primary traits: honesty of materials, variable transparency of forms, and juxtaposition of "industrial" materials and fixtures with a more traditional style of home decor.

 

Architectures 20 Jean Prouve: The House of Jean Prouve
Jean was born in Nancy. He grew up surrounded by the ideals and energy of his father Victor Prouve's art collective, "l'Ecole de Nancy".

 

Architectures 21 Toyo Ito: The Sendai Media Center
The Mediatheque is located on a tree-lined avenue in Sendai, its transparent facade allowing for the revelation of diverse activities that occur within the building.

 

Architectures 22 The Abby Sainte Foy de Conques
The Sainte-Foy abbey-church in Conques was a popular stop for pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostela. in what is now Spain. Its construction was begun on the foundations of a smaller earlier basilica, directed by the abbot Odolric (1031-1065) and completed around the year 1120. It was built in Romanesque style.

 

Architectures 23 Frank O Gehry: The Bilbao Guggenheim Museum
The new Guggenheim Museum Bilbao composition continues a curvaceous, free-form sculptural style that has become a Gehry signature.

 

Architectures 24 The Alhambra
Worried their dynasty would disappear, the Nasrid sultans made the Alhambra a paradise lost. dedicated to poetry and beauty.

 

Architectures 25 The House of Sugimoto
Built in Kyoto in 1743, this traditional Japanese architectural masterpiece portrays a different understanding of architecture and building. The Sugimoto Residence is built in the traditional wooden Kyoto townhouse style with sliding wooden doors (kyokoushi and dekoushi), inuyarai (which prevents dogs from leaving their "mark") and second-floor windows made in the tsuchinuri (stucco) style.

 

Architectures 26 Adalderto Libera: The Reception & Congress Building Rome
In the most ambitious of the Mussolini regime buildings. leader of Italy's modern movement Adalberto Libera attempted the impossible combination of fascism with modernity. The Palace of Conferences represents the melting of modern technologies and materials with the classic inspiration that was requested during the Fascism.

 

Architectures 27 Kenzo Tange: The Yoyogo Olympic Gymnasiums
For the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Kenzo Tange designed 2 concrete gymnasiums expressing movement.

 

Architectures 28 Andrea Palladio: The Villa Barbaro (Villa di Maser)
By inventing the villa, a new type of housing, which was half palace and half farm. Andrea Palladio sought to combine aesthetics with utility. This rigorous and innovative approach was to have a lasting influence on Western architecture.

 

Architectures 29 Zaha Hadid: Phaeno Building as Landscape

 

Architectures 1-5 (Box Set) DVD, 2007

Film Description

The Architectures series presents a privileged and unprecedented look at the work of superstar architects and some of their most brilliant creations. Co-produced by the European public television channel ARTE, this series of 5 DVDs looks at architecture and its historical and social functions to reveal its meaning and impact on humanity. 

Each 26-minute film in the series focuses on a single building chosen because of the pioneering role it has played in the evolution of contemporary architecture. Meticulously filmed, each building is explored in great detail and this in-depth examination highlights all the concerns that confronted the architect from the genesis of the project through to its completion. 

Architectures 1 covers milestones such as Germany's famed Bauhaus and the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris. It also examines the work of architects Jean Nouvel, Otto Wagner, Walter Gropius, Alvaro Siza, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers and Jean-Baptiste-Andre Godin. 

Architectures 2 analyses Frank Lloyd Wright's Johnson Wax building, the innovations of the Galleria Umberto I, the luxurious Stone Thermal Baths in Switzerland, and a high-speed train station, Satolas, in Lyon. It also examines the work of architects Santiago Calatrava, Peter Zumthor, Felix Duban, and Frank Lloyd Wright. 

Architectures 3 examines the Jewish Museum of Berlin, designed by Daniel Libeskind, Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, a Dominican convent designed by Le Corbusier, Charles Garnier's Parisian Opera and buildings by Antoni Gaudi and Alvar Aalto. 

Architectures 4 covers the Royal Saltworks of Arc and Senans, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Jean Prouve's House, the St. Foy Abbey, and the Sendai Mediatheque in Japan. It also examines the work of architects Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Pierre Chareau, Frank Gehry, and Toyo Ito. 

Architectures 5 analyses the Alhambra in Granada, Adalberto Libera's Reception and Congress Building in Rome; the House of Sugimoto in Kyoto, Japan, Zaha Hadid's Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg; the Yoyogi Olympic Gymnasium in Tokyo by Kenzo Tange; and the Villa Barbaro by Andrea Palladio. 

 

 

Film Information

Director - Various (Documentary)

Produced - 2007

Main Language - English

Countries & Regions - European Film, French Film, German Film

 

 

DVD Details

Certificate:	E	Publisher:	Illuminations	Region:	2
Length:	754 mins	Cat No:	ARC150
Format:	DVD Colour