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    Architectures Season 1 Episode 3 - The Iron House
    7.6/10(9 votes)

    #1 - The Iron House

    S1:E3

    In late 19th century Brussels, the Art Nouveau movement was laying the foundations of a new concept in architecture, and Victor Horta was the movement's grand master. Of all his works, the Hotel van Eetvelde features the boldest display of his modernity.

    Director:Stan Neumann
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Architectures Season 1 Episode 1 - The Villa Dall'Ava
    7.4/10(15 votes)

    #2 - The Villa Dall'Ava

    S1:E1

    Rem Koolhaas built a unique villa on the heights of Saint-Cloud.

    Director:Richard Copans
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Architectures Season 1 Episode 4 - Charlety, a Stadium in the City
    7.3/10(13 votes)

    #3 - Charlety, a Stadium in the City

    S1:E4

    Bruno and Henri Gaudin have broken with the classic design of a closed stadium, and created a bridge between Paris and its suburb. The Charlety Stadium's airy outline stands out in an otherwise densely urban area.

    Director:Olivier Horn
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Architectures Season 1 Episode 6 - The Vienna Savings Bank
    6.9/10(10 votes)

    #4 - The Vienna Savings Bank

    S1:E6

    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.

    Director:Stan Neumann
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Architectures Season 1 Episode 5 - Pierrefonds, the Architect's Castle
    6.8/10(13 votes)

    #5 - Pierrefonds, the Architect's Castle

    S1:E5

    Middle Aged castle rebuilt by Viollet Le Duc for the Emperor Napoleon III. A reconstruction that paradoxically opened the way for modern architecture.

    Directors:Richard Copans, Stan Neumann
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Architectures Season 1 Episode 2 - Nemausus 1
    6.2/10(13 votes)

    #6 - Nemausus 1

    S1:E2

    In Nîmes, 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.

    Directors:Richard Copans, Stan Neumann
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Architectures Season 1 Episode 7 - The Georges Pompidou Centre
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #7 - The Georges Pompidou Centre

    S1:E7

    A giant meccano-like structure designed by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, a museum-factory that has become one of the most notable landmarks of the historical Parisian architectural landscape.

    Director:Richard Copans
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Architectures Season 1 Episode 8 - Family Lodging in Guise
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #8 - Family Lodging in Guise

    S1:E8

    The philanthropist company boss Andre Godin built a workers' housing estate with a palatial air. Social housing is born.

    Director:Catherine Adda
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Architectures Season 1 Episode 9 - A House in Bordeaux
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #9 - A House in Bordeaux

    S1:E9

    Designed by the architect Rem Koolhaas for a couple whose husband became disabled following a road accident, the architect's plan for this ultra-modern house is shaped by the need to adapt to the husband's mode of travel.

    Director:Richard Copans
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Architectures Season 1 Episode 10 - The Dessau Bauhaus
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #10 - The Dessau Bauhaus

    S1:E10

    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.

    Director:Frédéric Compain
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Architectures Season 1 Episode 11 - Satolas - TGV
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #11 - Satolas - TGV

    S1:E11

    An astonishing concrete and steel structure designed for an open field in the Lyon countryside. An astonishing feat undertaken by Calatrava, which sees trains race through at speeds of 190mph.

    Director:Catherine Adda
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Architectures Season 1 Episode 12 - The Johnson Building
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #12 - The Johnson Building

    S1:E12

    These famous office buildings were designed and built between 1936 and 1939 for the wax manufacturer Johnson, by one one of the 20th century's greatest architects Frank Lloyd Wright.

    Director:Frédéric Compain
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Architectures Season 1 Episode 13 - The Paris Fine Art School
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #13 - The Paris Fine Art School

    S1:E13

    In the heart of Paris, architect Duban's 'École des Beaux-Arts' provides its students with an architectural "temple" representing a 19th century style widely copied throughout the world.

    Director:Catherine Adda
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Architectures Season 1 Episode 14 - The Siza School
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #14 - The Siza School

    S1:E14

    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.

    Directors:Richard Copans, Stan Neumann
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Architectures Season 1 Episode 15 - The Stone Thermal Baths
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #15 - The Stone Thermal Baths

    S1:E15

    The Spa of Vals-les-Bains, designed by Peter Zumthor, redefines the very concept of public bathing, a mise en scène of water in all its aspects.

    Director:Richard Copans
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Architectures Season 1 Episode 16 - The Galleria Umberto I
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - The Galleria Umberto I

    S1:E16

    Built in Naples, this is one of the last and largest covered passageways to be constructed in Europe, providing the swan song for a grand invention of 19th century architecture.

    Director:Stan Neumann
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Architectures Season 1 Episode 17 - The Saint Pancras Station
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #17 - The Saint Pancras Station

    S1:E17

    In the 19th century in London, the Midland Company had Saint Pancras and a luxury hotel built. Engineer W.H. Barlow carried out a major feat, creating a 73 meter single-span hall, with no columns or pillars. As for architect Sir George Gilbert Scott, his Midland Grand Hotel was a neo-gothic manifesto.

    Director:Richard Copans
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Architectures Season 1 Episode 18 - The Wind Box
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - The Wind Box

    S1:E18

    The Fort de France Education Authority is the only example of a contemporary architectural building in Martinique. It is also the only official building to be naturally ventilated by the trade winds. Christian Hauvette has created a totally open building, in which the boundaries between exterior and interior are blurred.

    Director:Stan Neumann
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Architectures Season 1 Episode 19 - The Garnier Opera
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - The Garnier Opera

    S1:E19

    The Garnier Opera by Charles Garnier This is Paris's most prestigious 19th century building, the pinnacle of the "Beaux Arts" style with its ornamented facade, transfigured by the excesses of a theatre-mad architect in the mid-1800s.

    Director:Stan Neumann
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Architectures Season 1 Episode 20 - The Jewish Museum Berlin
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - The Jewish Museum Berlin

    S1:E20

    The Jewish Museum in Berlin, by 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.

    Directors:Richard Copans, Stan Neumann
    Writer:Stan Neumann

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  21. Architectures Season 1 Episode 21 - The Convent of La Tourette
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - The Convent of La Tourette

    S1:E21

    With the Convent of La Tourette, commissioned by the Dominicans of Lyons, Le Courbusier was charged with the task of creating this rural convent retreat. A reinvention of religious architecture, its rough concrete form houses one hundred sleeping rooms plus recreational spaces.

    Director:Richard Copans
    Writer:Richard Copans

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  22. Architectures Season 1 Episode 22 - The Auditorium Building in Chicago
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - The Auditorium Building in Chicago

    S1:E22

    At the end of the 19th century, Louis Henry Sullivan, the father of American architecture, built the world's largest opera house, a "democratic" auditorium which was revolutionary in its very conception.

    Director:Stan Neumann
    Writer:Stan Neumann

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  23. Architectures Season 1 Episode 23 - The Municipal Center of Säynätsalo
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #23 - The Municipal Center of Säynätsalo

    S1:E23

    Built in 1952 by Alvaar Alto, this town hall building lies in the heart of a rugged landscape in Finland. It represents a humanist masterpiece, and pays modern homage to the Ideal City of the Italian Renaissance.

    Director:Richard Copans
    Writer:Richard Copans

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  24. Architectures Season 1 Episode 24 - The Casa Milá
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - The Casa Milá

    S1:E24

    A block of flats in Barcelona, the Casa Milà 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.

    Director:Frédéric Compain
    Writer:Frédéric Compain

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  25. Architectures Season 1 Episode 25 - The Glass House
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - The Glass House

    S1:E25

    In 1928, Pierre Chareau built the poetic and remarkable Maison de Verre, one of the unique buildings of the 20th century. Inserted into an existing building, the views dissolve through semi-transparent materials, juxtaposing metal and glass, almost taking it into the realms of Surrealism.

    Directors:Richard Copans, Stan Neumann
    Writer:Stan Neumann

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Iron House" is the best rated episode of "Architectures". It scored 7.6/10 based on 9 votes. Directed by Stan Neumann and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/3/1996. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Villa Dall'Ava".