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The Best Episodes of Architectures

Every episode of Architectures ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Architectures!

An ongoing series of films devoted to the most remarkable achievements in modern architecture, from the works that heralded the birth of the modern style...
Genre:Documentary

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 N/A, it aired on 10/3/1996. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Villa Dall'Ava".

  • The Iron House
    7.6/109 votes
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    #1 - The Iron House

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1996

    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: N/A

  • The Villa Dall'Ava
    7.4/1015 votes
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    #2 - The Villa Dall'Ava

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1996

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

    Director: Richard Copans

    Writer: N/A

  • Charlety, a Stadium in the City
    7.3/1013 votes
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    #3 - Charlety, a Stadium in the City

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1996

    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: N/A

  • The Vienna Savings Bank
    6.9/1010 votes
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    #4 - The Vienna Savings Bank

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/2/1998

    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: N/A

  • Pierrefonds, the Architect's Castle
    6.8/1013 votes
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    #5 - Pierrefonds, the Architect's Castle

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1996

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

    Director: Stan Neumann, Richard Copans

    Writer: N/A

  • Nemausus 1
    6.2/1013 votes
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    #6 - Nemausus 1

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1996

    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.

    Director: Stan Neumann, Richard Copans

    Writer: N/A

  • The Georges Pompidou Centre
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    #7 - The Georges Pompidou Centre

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/23/1998

    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: N/A

  • Family Lodging in Guise
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    #8 - Family Lodging in Guise

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 8/13/1998

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

    Director: Catherine Adda

    Writer: N/A

  • A House in Bordeaux
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    #9 - A House in Bordeaux

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 8/27/1998

    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: N/A

  • The Dessau Bauhaus
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    #10 - The Dessau Bauhaus

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/3/2001

    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: N/A

  • Satolas - TGV
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    #11 - Satolas - TGV

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/10/2001

    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: N/A

  • The Johnson Building
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    #12 - The Johnson Building

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/17/2001

    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: N/A

  • The Paris Fine Art School
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    #13 - The Paris Fine Art School

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 3/24/2001

    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: N/A

  • The Siza School
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    #14 - The Siza School

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/14/2001

    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.

    Director: Stan Neumann, Richard Copans

    Writer: N/A

  • The Stone Thermal Baths
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    #15 - The Stone Thermal Baths

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/21/2001

    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: N/A

  • The Galleria Umberto I
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    #16 - The Galleria Umberto I

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 5/19/2001

    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: N/A

  • The Saint Pancras Station
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    #17 - The Saint Pancras Station

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 6/2/2001

    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: N/A

  • The Wind Box
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    #18 - The Wind Box

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 6/9/2001

    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: N/A

  • The Garnier Opera
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    #19 - The Garnier Opera

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 6/16/2001

    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: N/A

  • The Jewish Museum Berlin
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    #20 - The Jewish Museum Berlin

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 7/5/2003

    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.

    Director: Stan Neumann, Richard Copans

    Writer: Stan Neumann

  • The Convent of La Tourette
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    #21 - The Convent of La Tourette

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 7/26/2003

    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

  • The Auditorium Building in Chicago
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    #22 - The Auditorium Building in Chicago

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 9/6/2003

    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

  • The Municipal Center of Säynätsalo
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    #23 - The Municipal Center of Säynätsalo

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 9/13/2003

    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

  • The Casa Milá
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    #24 - The Casa Milá

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 9/20/2003

    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

  • The Glass House
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    #25 - The Glass House

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 2/26/2005

    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.

    Director: Stan Neumann, Richard Copans

    Writer: Stan Neumann