Architecture - Volume 1,3,5 (DVD, 3-Disc) Documentary Famous Architect All Regio

Architecture - Volume 1,3,5 (DVD, 3-Disc) All Regions.

This documentary series charts the most ambitious architectural creations of the 19th and 20th centuries, featuring remarkable archive material and interviews with the greatest architectural minds. From Paris to Porto via Vienna and Nimes, the series offers a unique and fascinating insight into the greatest architectural achievements of our times, including the stunning Alhambra, Johnson Building and Paris Opera Garnier.

This documentary series charts the most ambitious architectural creations of the f9th and 20th centuries, featuring remarkable archive material and interviews with the greatest reitectural minds. From Tokyo to Rome to Kyoto, the series ofters a unique and fascinating ineight into the greatest architectural achievements of our times, including the stiming Altantra, Johnson Building and Paris Opera Gamier

Brick One: THE BERLIN JEWISH MUSEUM

Daniel Libeskind tackles the emptiness left by the extermination of Europe's Jews during the Second World War. His response is an architecture of absence. One of the first buildings designed after German reunification. A film by Richard Copans and Stan Neumann.

Brick Two: THE PARIS OPERA GARNIER

The Palais Garnier is a 2,200 seat opera house on the Place de l'Opéra in Paris. Designed in the

Neo-Baroque style by Charles Garnier, it is an architectural masterpiece of its time resplendent in the

excesses of a theatre-mad architect of the mid-1800s. A film by Stan Neumann.

Brick Three: THE CONVENT OF LA TOURETTE

Under the instigation of the Dominicans of Lyons, Le Courbusier was charged with the task of creating

this rural convent retreat, a rough concrete form that would house one hundred sleeping rooms plus recreational spaces. A film by Richard Copans.

Brick Four: CASA MILA

A block of flats in Barcelona, the Casa Mila is an extraordinarily sculpted work created by the great

Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi. The Art Nouveau apartments are Expressionistic, fantastic, organic forms

with undulating facades and roof lines. A film by Frédéric Compain.

Brick Five. THE AUDITORIUM BUILDING, CHICAGO

At the end of the 19th century, Louis Henry Sullivan, the lather of American architecture, built the world's

largest opera house, a "democratic" auditorium which was revolutionary in its very conception.

A film by Stan Neumann.

Brick Six: THE MUNICIPAL CENTRE OF SAYNATSALO

Built in 1952, this town hall building in the heart of a rugged landscape in Finland represents a humanist

masterpiece by architect Alvar Aalto. His intention was to pay modern homage to the Ideal City of the

Italian Renaissance. A film by Richard Copans.

Brick One: THE ALHAMBRA, GRANADA

Worried that their dynasty would disappear, the Nasrid sultans built this Red Castle in a strategic location over the cily of Granada, ensuring that it became a paradise lost, dedicated to art, poetry and beauty

A film by Frédéric Compain.

Brick TWO: HOUSE OF SUGIMOTO

Built in 1743, this traditional Japanese architectural masterpiece portrays a different understanding of architecture and building. It is a typical-'machiya' (Kyoto traditional townhouso) and was one of the largest rebuilt during the Mei period. A film by Richard Copans.

Brick Three: THE RECEPTION & CONGRESS BUILDING IN ROME

One of the most ambitious buildings of the Mussolini regime, the leader of laly's modern movement attempted the impossible in combining fascism with modernily. It reflects Libera's great ability to design ambiguously in a spare, metaphysical language that sits on a knife edge between modernism and neo classicism. A film by Stan Neumann.

Brick Four: THE YOYOGI OLYMPIC GYMNASIUMS

Dosigned for the 1964 Summer Olympie Games in Tokyo. Kenzo Tange's two concrote gymnasiums are famous for their suspension roof design His Pritzker Prize citation described it as *among the most beautiful buildings of the 20th contury". A film by Richard Copans.

Brick Five: THE VILLA BARBARO

Through inventing the villa, à new type of housing, in 1550, Palladio sought to combine aesthetics with utility in transforming the Venatian Medieval Palace of Maser into a splendid country residence. His rigorous and innovative approach would have a lasting influence on Western architecture.

A film by Richard Copans.

Brick Six: PHAENO SCIENCE CENTRE IN WOLFSBURG

The sculptural power of the Science Centre in Wolfsberg. Germany in which the plan is a landscape - the landscape ol Zaha Hadid's experiences, The building is the realisation of an imaginative world that we know vividly through twenly years of abstract images. It permits us to experience space in ways that never seemed possible before. A film by Richard Copans.

Brick One: DESSAU BAUMAUS

Walter Gropius' main achievement is the buildings of the Bauhaus, built in 1926. His pioneering architecture saw the birth of one of the most innovative schools of art of the 20th century.

A film by Frédéric Compain.

Brick Two: SIZA SCHOOL

The Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza built Porto's Faculty of Architecture, a mediation on space and light in a futuristic "agora". Alvaro was once a student and still teaches there today.

A film by Richard Copans and Stan Neumann.

Brick Three: FAMILY LODGINGS IN GUISE

Jean-Baptiste Andre Godin's social experimentation lead him to design a new type of settlement inspired by the communes of Charles Fourier which were themselves based on socialist principles.

A film by Catherine Adda.

Brick Four: NEMAUSUS 1

In Nimes, Jean Nouvel conceived a block of tenement houses reminiscent of a cruise liner. An architectural utopia that pokes fun at the truisms of council housing, the merging of space with usability.

A film by Richard Copans and Stan Neumann.

Brick Five: THE GEORGE POMPIDOU CENTRE

The famous Pompidou Centre in Paris, a giant meccano-like structure designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers revolutionised museum culture with its playful brightly colored tubes to become one of the most notable landmarks of the historical Parisian architectural landscape. A film by Richard Copans.

Brick Six: VIENNA SAVINGS BANK

At the turn of the last century, Otto Wagner designed one of the first 20th century modern office buildings. representing a radical break with the previous tradition in bank-architecture with its harmonious synthesis between form and functionality. A film by Stan Neumann.

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