Architecture History Movies

An ancestral house builds itself, comes to life, and shows us its story spanning one hundred fifty years. Through the ages, it allows us to perceive...

Secluded from view by nine-meter-high walls and composed of 980 buildings, the Forbidden City in Beijing is the largest imperial palace ever built in...

Geoffrey Bawa is the greatest architect you've never heard of. A groundbreaking documentary exploring the work of Sri Lanka's most important...

Ireland’s great houses, towers and castles, including Yeats’ Tower House, Bunratty Castle, Butler Castle and Castletown House.

A series of static shots of the buildings of the California Mission system, as they existed in 1907. Because many of the Mission buildings were in...

Documentary about Queen Elizabeth Square, Sir Basil Spence's block of Brutalist style flats built to replace the Gorbal's tenements in Glasgow during...

touristic intents is a feature documentary film that explores the connection between mass tourism and political ideology. The film is centered on a...

A 1996 Dutch documentary film about the Western European architects who were invited by the Soviet Union to construct “Socialist cities”...

"Clean Lines, Open Spaces: A View of Mid-Century Modern Architecture" focuses on the construction boom in the United States after World War II....

Luis Barragán (1902- 1988) is considered to be one of the greatest contemporary architects and one of the principal figures of...

The six-decade transformation of a block of houses, shown by means of artfully featured archival shots, highlights the beauty and sadness of...

As a teenager in 1950 Brooklyn, all Saul wanted to do was hang out with his friends and go to the beach. Instead, he got roped into a dangerous new...

Following a commission from the College of Architects of Seville, for the production of a documentary about the La Alameda de Hércules area of...