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New structures in seven North American Native communities that reinterpret traditional forms for contemporary purposes. This film offers a fascinating in-depth look into the diversity of North American Native architecture. Featuring expert commentary and stunning imagery, this program provides a virtual tour of seven Aboriginal communities -- Pueblo, Mohawk, Inuit, Crow, Navajo, Coast Salish and Haida -- revealing how each is actively reinterpreting and adapting traditional forms for contemporary purposes.
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A design revolution that connects buildings to the natural world, buildings where people feel and perform better. Biophilic Design is an innovative way of designing the places where we live, work, and learn. We need nature in a deep and fundamental fashion, but we have often designed our cities and suburbs in ways that both degrade the environment and alienate us from nature.
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Architect I.M. Pei returns to his home city of Suzhou, China to build a modern museum that complements the architecture of the 2,500 year-old city and sets a course for modern Chinese architecture.
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From the co-creators of KING CORN, and BIG RIVER, TRUCK FARM tells the story of a new generation of American farmers. Using green roof technology and heirloom seeds, filmmaker Ian Cheney plants a vegetable garden on the only land he's got: his Granddad's old pickup. Once the mobile garden begins to sprout, viewers are trucked across New York to see the city's funkiest urban farms, and to find out if America's largest city can learn to feed itself.
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Cuba's ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists, Ricardo Porro, Vittorio Garatti, and Roberto Gottardi, in the wake of Castro's Revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece.
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Fifty years ago Detroit was booming with two million hard-working people living the American Dream. Then the auto industry crashed and so did the Motor City. Most moved away; whole neighborhoods turned into wastelands. But some didn't give up on the city they love. They had a vision of Detroit as a human-scaled city for a post industrial world, and they are working to make it real.
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This video chronicles, from inception to completion, the creation of a commissioned art work, showing how one community comes together to make a vision a reality. Interviews with the artists, community craftspeople, manufacturers, and city officials are blended with scenes of the design and creation of the Crystal Arch, a crystal-glass archway in downtown Anderson, Indiana.
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There was a time when the Salton Sea, tucked into the southeast corner of California was known as the Riviera of the West - a premier vacation destination for the rich and famous, serving the likes of Frank Sinatra, the Marx Brothers, and the Beach Boys. Today, it’s considered one of America’s worst ecological disasters: a fetid, stagnant, salty lake, coughing up dead fish and birds by the thousands.
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This timely documentary encourages Americans to think more deeply about the importance of memorials on our landscape. In light of the continuing debate surrounding the September 11th memorial design in New York, it is an excellent opportunity for the greater public to rethink the meanings and motivations behind building a memorial of such historical significance.
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The Healing Gardens of New York is a wonderful film that illustrates the significance of gardens and green spaces in the face of ever growing urbanization and development. In cities dominated by glass and concrete, it takes an in depth look at how gardens can be a platform for social change and an opportunity to develop new skills and transform lives.
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In Malmö, Sweden, Santiago Calatrava’s “Turning Torso” is being built, a 624 foot-high residential building which uses nine five-story cubes that twist as they rise, with the top-most segment turned a complete ninety degrees clockwise from the ground floor. It is a spectacular structure and an even more spectacular project riddled with skyrocketing costs, outsized egos, and at its heart, a debate between new capitalism and old socialist ideals.
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Le Corbusier is considered one of the greatest architects of his time. But despite the influence of his ideas, this self-taught genius had been denied all the prestigious public projects by the conservative decision makers in France and in the United States. It is India, newly independent and post-partition, which offered him the chance of his life: the creation of a new city, Chandigarh.
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Despite his famous quip about the enduring patience of his client, the man known as “God’s architect” never intended his masterpiece, La Sagrada Familia, to remain unfinished 80 years after his death. This program examines efforts to bring Antonio Gaudi’s work to completion in a manner consistent with his original goals and ideas.
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Kawamata has made in-situ art throughout the world and was artistic director of the Yokohama Triennale in 2005. His work concerns itself with architectural space as an urban or designed social context or product. This extensive two DVD, boxed set documents the various projects by the artist, including installations in Paris, London, Switzerland and Germany.
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The VDL Research House was designed by architect Richard J. Neutra in 1932 and served as his studio and residence for the rest of his career. Uniquely among his projects, it represented the three major phases of his aesthetic development.
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Vincent Scully is arguably the best-known living art historian in the United States today. This program explores the phenomenon of Scully, tracing his connection to New Haven, where he was born, and to Yale from the time he entered as a freshman in 1936 to the present.
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