Architectures is a documentary series by Richard Copans and Stan Neumann. For more information: http://www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/ plus links for you tube videos for each of this film.
Architectures 1 Comprising of 6 x 26 minute films covering milestones like Germany’s famed Bauhaus and the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris. This DVD 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 Comprising of 5 x 26 minute films analysing 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. This DVD examines the work of architects Santiago Calatrava, Peter Zumthor, Felix Duban, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Architectures 3 Comprising of 6 x 26 minute films examining 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 Comprising of 6 x 26 minute films covering 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. This DVD examines the work of architects Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Pierre Chareau, Frank Gehry, and Toyo Ito.
Architectures 5 Comprising of 6 x 26 minute films analysing 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.