Athens Greece 1961.

Various locations around Greece. (Rare documentaries) by British Pathé

Peter Eisenman and Jack Robertson interview 1984

Peter Eisenman (born August 11, 1932) is an American architect. Eisenman’s professional work is often referred to as formalist, deconstructive, late avant-garde, late or high modernist, etc. A certain fragmenting of forms visible in some of Eisenman’s projects has been identified as characteristic of an eclectic group of architects that were (self-)labeled as deconstructivists, and […]

Landscape and Architecture – New York

New York City, with a Census-estimated population of over 8.4 million in 2013, is the most populous city in the United States. Alone, it makes up over 40 percent of the population of New York State. It is known for its status as a center for finance and culture and for its status as the largest […]

Belgian Architecture (1940) 2 video

German UFA documentary film. Almost identical footage to this item is found in the item BELGIUM – SCENERY & BUILDINGS on the same tape – Film ID 1407.01. by British Pathé

Alastair Parvin: Architecture for the people by the people

Architect Alastair Parvin presents a simple but provocative idea: what if, instead of architects creating buildings for those who can afford to commission them, regular citizens could design and build their own houses? The concept is at the heart of Wikihouse, an open source construction kit that means just about anyone can build a house, […]

Students In Florence (1948)

Students Of Architecture Visit Florence AKA Students In Florence (1948) by British Pathé

Frank Gehry: From 1990, defending a vision for architecture

Speaking at TED in 1990, the not-yet-legendary architect Frank Gehry takes a whistlestop tour of his work to date, from his own Venice Beach house to the under-construction American Center in Paris. In this 50-minute slideshow (before TED’s 18-minute limit), Gehry explains the site-specific nature of his buildings — context he felt was lost in […]

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Oscar Niemeyer

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (December 15, 1907 – December 5, 2012), known as Oscar Niemeyer (Brazilian Portuguese: [ɔʃˈkaʁ ˈniemajeʁ]), was a Brazilian architect who is considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was best known for his design of civic buildings for Brasília, a […]

David Chipperfield – Why does everyone hate modern architecture?

David Chipperfield was born in London in 1953. He studied at Kingston School of Art and the Architectural Association. After graduating he worked at the practices of Douglas Stephen, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster. David Chipperfield Architects was established in 1984 and the practice currently has over 200 staff at its offices in London, Berlin, […]

Historic film Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1985)

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886 – August 19, 1969) was a German-American architect.[1] He is commonly referred to, and was addressed, as Mies, his surname. He served as the last director of Berlin’s Bauhaus, and then headed the department of architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, […]

Expression through Architecture – Preston Scott Cohen

Architect Ana Aleman interviews her former Professor from Harvard Preston Scott Cohen. Cohen speaks about how contemporary architecture is able to arouse feelings in people using unusual proportion, distortion and perspective so the viewers get the false sense of space and movement. According to Aleman, buildings interact with viewers and produces gestures, and it is […]