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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...
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Season 1

  • The Villa Dall'Ava
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    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

  • Nemausus 1
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    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 Iron House
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    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

  • Charlety, a Stadium in the City
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    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

  • Pierrefonds, the Architect's Castle
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    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

  • The Vienna Savings Bank
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    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

  • The Georges Pompidou Centre
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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

  • The Abbey Church of Saint Foy at Conques
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    The Abbey Church of Saint Foy at Conques

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/5/2005

    Built in 1050, the Abbey is one of the foremost pilgrim churches of the Christian world. Rational, svelte and light-filled Romanesque architecture that flies in the face of cliches.

    Director: Stan Neumann

    Writer: Stan Neumann

  • The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
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    The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 3/19/2005

    Known for his strange and deconstructed forms, Frank Gehry designed this monumental, but chaotic and abstract-looking sculpture in 1967. Covered in titanium, the curves on the building have been designed to appear random in order to catch the light.

    Director: Julien Donada

    Writer: Julien Donada

  • The Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
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    The Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans

    Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/2/2005

    The visionary architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, one of the earliest exponents of French Neoclassical design, built a monumental factory for the king of France at the end of the 18th century. It is pragmatic and utopian, an aesthetic revolution.

    Director: Stan Neumann, Richard Copans

    Writer: Stan Neumann

  • Jean Prouvé's House
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    Jean Prouvé's House

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/30/2005

    In 1953, while going through his worst life-crisis, French designer Jean Prouvé built "his" house. Designed in haste, it embodies his most innovative ideas.

    Director: Stan Neumann

    Writer: Stan Neumann

  • The Multimedia Library of Sendai
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    The Multimedia Library of Sendai

    Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 5/14/2005

    A glass cube, built in 2001 by Toyo Ito, this library provides an example of immaterial and evanescent architecture. The multimedia library is located on a tree-lined avenue in Sendai, Japan. Its transparent facade allows for the revelation of diverse activities that occur within the building.

    Director: Richard Copans

    Writer: Richard Copans

  • The Alhambra, Grenade
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    The Alhambra, Grenade

    Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 3/11/2007

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

    Director: Frédéric Compain

    Writer: Frédéric Compain

  • Phaeno, Building as Landscape
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    Phaeno, Building as Landscape

    Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 3/18/2007

    The sculptural power of the science center in Wolfsberg, Germany, in which the plan is a landscape - the landscape of Zaha Hadid's experience. The building is the realization of an imaginative world that we know vividly through twenty years of abstract images. It permits us to experience space in ways that never seemed possible before.

    Director: Richard Copans

    Writer: Richard Copans

  • The House of Sugimoto
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    The House of Sugimoto

    Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 4/1/2007

    Built in Kyoto in 1743, this traditional Japanese architectural masterpiece portrays a different understanding of architecture and building. It is a typical 'machiya' (Kyoto traditional townhouse) and was one of the largest built during the Meiji period.

    Director: Richard Copans

    Writer: Richard Copans

  • The Reception and Congress Building in Rome
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    The Reception and Congress Building in Rome

    Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 4/15/2007

    In the most ambitious of the Mussolini regime's buildings, the leader of Italy's modern movement Adalberto Libera attempted the impossible combination of fascism with modernity. It reflects Libera's great ability to design ambiguously in a space, metaphysical language that sits on a knife-edge between modernism and neo-classicism.

    Director: Stan Neumann, Richard Copans

    Writer: Stan Neumann

  • The Yoyogo Olympic Gymnasiums
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    The Yoyogo Olympic Gymnasiums

    Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 5/20/2007

    For the 1964 summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Kenzo Tange designed two concrete gymnasiums which evoke a sense of movement. Famous for their suspension roof design, they are regarded by many as being among the most beautiful buildings of the 20th century.

    Director: Richard Copans

    Writer: Richard Copans

  • The Villa Barbaro
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    The Villa Barbaro

    Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 6/17/2007

    By inventing the villa, a new type of housing, in 1550, Palladio sought to combine aesthetics with utility. This rigorous and innovative approach was to have a lasting influence on Western architecture.

    Director: Stan Neumann

    Writer: N/A

  • The Royal Mosque at Isfahan
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    The Royal Mosque at Isfahan

    Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 2/11/2009

    In 1598, King Abbas planned an immense urban project. His royal mosque captured his unprecedented wealth, an art of living, the king's power, and the talent of the architect Ali Akbar Esfahani.

    Director: Richard Copans

    Writer: N/A

  • The Menier Chocolate Factory
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    The Menier Chocolate Factory

    Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 9/13/2009

    The Menier factory at Noisiel, outside Paris, was the largest chocolate factory in the world between 1870 and 1914. Throughout its three successive states, it tells the story of a veritable laboratory of industrial architecture in the second half of the 19th century.

    Director: Stan Neumann

    Writer: Stan Neumann

  • The Pyramid of Pharoah Djoser at Saqqara
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    The Pyramid of Pharoah Djoser at Saqqara

    Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 9/20/2009

    The Djoser pyramid, the work of legendary architect Imhotep, is the oldest in Egypt, and bears witness to the first steps of architecture as a scholarly pursuit. It was a revolution when built in 3000 BCE, born out of a desire to perpetuate tradition.

    Director: Stan Neumann

    Writer: N/A

  • The German Pavilion in Barcelona
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    The German Pavilion in Barcelona

    Season 1 Episode 40 - Aired 9/27/2009

    How and why did this minimalist structure end up embodying 20th century modernity? Between rigor and free form, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's first masterpiece is a poetic work of spatial flow and intervals.

    Director: Stan Neumann

    Writer: N/A

  • The SAS Royal Hotel
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    The SAS Royal Hotel

    Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 10/11/2009

    The SAS Royal Hotel tower marked Denmark's entry into post-war modernity. It is a major work that combines functionalism, simplicity and elegance, and in which everything, from the ashtrays to the buildings volumes, were created and designed by Arne Jacobsen.

    Director: Richard Copans

    Writer: N/A

  • Roissy 1
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    Roissy 1

    Season 1 Episode 42 - Aired 10/25/2009

    Opened in 1974, Roissy 1 was the first time architecture had entered the realm of airport construction. The building is the work of Paul Andreu, who was 29 years old at the time. It was his first building and the start of a long series of constructions, which would eventually make him one of the greatest 20th century airport architects.

    Director: Valéry Gaillard

    Writer: Valéry Gaillard

  • The Maisons Castle
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    The Maisons Castle

    Season 1 Episode 43 - Aired 11/15/2009

    Although its posterity has now rendered its image commonplace, the Maisons Laffitte Chateau revolutionized French architecture. It is the masterpiece of the brilliant architect Francois Mansart.

    Director: Juliette Garcias

    Writer: Juliette Garcias

  • The Luxembourg Philharmonic
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    The Luxembourg Philharmonic

    Season 1 Episode 44 - Aired 12/6/2009

    The elliptical shaped Philharmonic, with its filter of white columns and colorful cliffs, houses the Grand Auditorium in the manner of a jewel in its display case. It is one of the most beautiful building from architect Christian de Portzamparc.

    Director: Richard Copans

    Writer: N/A

  • VitraHaus
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    VitraHaus

    Season 1 Episode 45 - Aired 10/2/2011

    In 2006, the company Vitra asked the "Herzog & de Meuron" agency to create a building for it's "Home" collection. The showroom consists of a pile of 12 houses, slotted together to produce surprising spaces.

    Director: Richard Copans

    Writer: Richard Copans

  • The Igualada Cemetery
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    The Igualada Cemetery

    Season 1 Episode 46 - Aired 10/9/2011

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    Director: Richard Copans

    Writer: Richard Copans

  • The Citadel de Lille
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    The Citadel de Lille

    Season 1 Episode 47 - Aired 10/16/2011

    Vauban's "Queen of the citadels" was the model for military construction all over France. Built between 1668 and 1671, its exacting and simple design has made it a source of inspiration for major contemporary architects.

    Director: Stan Neumann

    Writer: Stan Neumann

  • The Sainte-Geneviève Library
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    The Sainte-Geneviève Library

    Season 1 Episode 48 - Aired 10/30/2011

    Breaking away from the 19th century neoclassical trend, Henri Labrouste erected a powerful public building in which stone featured along side a material that was used prominently and glorified for the first time - iron. A major milestone on the path to modern architecture.

    Director: Juliette Garcias

    Writer: Juliette Garcias

  • The Church of Notre-Dame du Raincy
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    The Church of Notre-Dame du Raincy

    Season 1 Episode 49 - Aired 11/13/2011

    In a country ruined by World War I, Auguste Perret took up the challenge of building a church. In concrete. It was a shunned material, used hitherto exclusively in industrial construction. This "Holy Chapel of Concrete" revolutionized architectural vocabulary.

    Director: Juliette Garcias

    Writer: Juliette Garcias

  • Ewha, the Seoul Hidden University
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    Ewha, the Seoul Hidden University

    Season 1 Episode 50 - Aired 12/4/2011

    With this building, Dominique Perrault continues a concept that is dear to him, the absence of architecture. The urban dimension and the way the surrounding land is organized prevail over the construction. The landscape supplants the architecture.

    Director: Richard Copans

    Writer: N/A

  • The Rolex Learning Center
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    The Rolex Learning Center

    Season 1 Episode 51 - Aired 5/5/2013

    Poised on the shore of Lake Geneva, a wave of cement and glass has inspired many metaphors, from a slice of Emmental cheese to a piece of molecular fabric. The building, a space dedicated to knowledge, resembles nothing else before it.

    Director: Juliette Garcias

    Writer: Juliette Garcias

  • The National Dance Center
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    The National Dance Center

    Season 1 Episode 52 - Aired 5/19/2013

    The mutation of a concrete mastodon, the Pantin Administrative Center (1969) into the French National Dance Center (2004)... Or the successful meeting of Brutus and ballerinas. An architectural overhaul that necessarily owes its success to the monumental strength of the original building.

    Director: Juliette Garcias

    Writer: Juliette Garcias

  • The Cologne Cathedral
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    The Cologne Cathedral

    Season 1 Episode 53 - Aired 5/26/2013

    Started in 1247, the Cologne Cathedral was completed in 1880 after a 300 year break in the work carried out on it. The Cathedral, which embodies the unity of Germany, is both a Gothic archetype and one of the most magnificent buildings completed during the 19th century.

    Director: Richard Copans

    Writer: N/A

  • The Citadel of Leisure, the Pompeia Social Service Center
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    The Citadel of Leisure, the Pompeia Social Service Center

    Season 1 Episode 54 - Aired 6/23/2013

    In the Palmeiras district of São Paulo, early 20th century former factory workshops are aligned with strange blocks of cement that stand tall, facing the city. Could the "Citadel of Leisure" be a major work of "Architecture Povera"?

    Director: Richard Copans

    Writer: Richard Copans

  • The Hotels de Soubise and de Rohan
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    The Hotels de Soubise and de Rohan

    Season 1 Episode 55 - Aired 7/7/2013

    From 1705 to 1752, the house of the Princes of Soubise was the setting for wild ambition and dreams of grandeur, with the dual purpose of transforming and renaming the Hotel de Guise for the Prince's heir, and of building a second mansion for his fifth son, the Prince Bishop of Strasbourg.

    Director: Richard Copans

    Writer: N/A

  • The French Communist Party Headquarters
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    The French Communist Party Headquarters

    Season 1 Episode 56 - Aired 8/30/2015

    A mysterious white dome and an undulating glass facade, the headquarters of the French Communist Party, built between 1965 and 1980, by Oscar Niemeyer. A fine example of the curtain wall designed by Jean Prouve, an extraordinary Central Committee room under the dome, and some of the finest Parisian architecture of the period.

    Director: Richard Copans

    Writer: Richard Copans

  • The Unal House
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    The Unal House

    Season 1 Episode 57 - Aired 9/6/2015

    Designed by Claude Hausermann-Costy, and built by Joel Unal between 1972 and 2008, it's a bubble house without a single right angle. The technique used was the application by hand of a layer concrete, without forms, on top of a metal frame. The house is part of a movement known as "sculpted architecture".

    Director: Julien Donada

    Writer: Julien Donada

  • The Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam
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    The Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam

    Season 1 Episode 58 - Aired 9/13/2015

    A cross between Taylorism and Bauhaus, the Van Nelle factory at Rotterdam was built between 1926 and 1931. Designed by the architects Jan Brickman and Leendert Van der Vlugt, the factory is the most important and the most accomplished example of industrial architecture in the modern movement.

    Director: Stan Neumann

    Writer: N/A

  • The Glass Galleon
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    The Glass Galleon

    Season 1 Episode 59 - Aired 9/20/2015

    On the fringes of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, a grand galleon with 12 glass sails, billowing in an imaginary wind, towers above the treetops. It is a new building, designed by Frank Gehry, dedicated to contemporary art that offers visitors an architectural tour.

    Director: Richard Copans

    Writer: N/A

  • Itimad-ud-Daulah, the Mughal Mausoleum
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    Itimad-ud-Daulah, the Mughal Mausoleum

    Season 1 Episode 60 - Aired 10/4/2015

    The mausoleum of Itimad-ud-Daulah, built of white marble encrusted with semi-precious stones, in Agra the capital of the Mughal Empire. Islamic funeral rites are strictly observed in a structure that combines representations of paradise.

    Director: Richard Copans

    Writer: N/A

  • The Home for All at Rikuzentakata
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    The Home for All at Rikuzentakata

    Season 1 Episode 61 - Aired 10/11/2015

    After Japan's 2011 tsunami, a group of architects led by Toyo Ito launched the "Home for All" project, providing community centers for the inhabitants of the devastated towns. Three architects, Su Fujimoto, Kumiko Inui and Akihisa Hirata, each built one of these homes in Rikuzentakata.

    Director: Richard Copans

    Writer: N/A

  • The Wa Shan Guesthouse
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    The Wa Shan Guesthouse

    Season 1 Episode 62 - Aired 10/18/2015

    The Wa Shan, literally "Tile Mountain", is an astonishing guesthouse, built by Chinese architect Wang Shu, who pursues the aim of sustainable architecture. His experimental practice and his works, which blend modern and traditional building methods, earned him the Pritzker Prize in 2012.

    Director: Juliette Garcias

    Writer: Juliette Garcias

  • The Glasgow School of Art
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    The Glasgow School of Art

    Season 1 Episode 63 - Aired 10/25/2015

    Built at the dawn of the 20th century by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the Glasgow School of Art is a masterpiece that combines the constructive rationality, art-nouveau, subjectivism, obsessive attention to detail and a decorative fantasy. Its influence is without parallel in early 20th century architecture.

    Director: Juliette Garcias

    Writer: Juliette Garcias

  • The Sante, a Prison in Paris
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    The Sante, a Prison in Paris

    Season 1 Episode 64 - Aired 10/8/2017

    La Sante prison (1861-1867) is a unique and impressive work of architecture. At the cutting edge of reflections on imprisonment, it was at the time the ultimate "modern prison", the stone embodiment of 19th century penitentiary obsessions.

    Director: Stan Neumann

    Writer: Stan Neumann

  • The Bamboo School of Bali
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    The Bamboo School of Bali

    Season 1 Episode 65 - Aired 10/15/2017

    An astonishing structure in which three cones flow together into one roof that protects a school building made of bamboo. An ambitious program built only with an entirely renewable material.

    Director: Richard Copans

    Writer: Richard Copans

  • Médiacité - a Designer Mall
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    Médiacité - a Designer Mall

    Season 1 Episode 66 - Aired 10/22/2017

    Seen from the sky, a long stained-glass window structures the commercial center. At Médiacité, the experimental, provocative Israeli designer Ron Arad has set out to conquer architecture, putting his ideas into practice on a bigger scale and reinvigorating the often criticized genre of retail architecture.

    Director: Juliette Garcias

    Writer: Juliette Garcias

  • The Phillips Exeter Academy Library
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    The Phillips Exeter Academy Library

    Season 1 Episode 67 - Aired 10/29/2017

    A masterpiece of geometry and of architectural precision, the library is one of Lous Kahn's last works. Louis Kahn reinvented library layouts by placing readers close to daylight on the periphery of the building, and by creating a vast central atrium.

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