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The Worst 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...

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  1. Background image for The Georges Pompidou Centre
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    #1 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    #2 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    #3 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    #4 - 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.

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    #5 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    #6 - 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.

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    #7 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    #8 - 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.

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    #9 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    #10 - 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.

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    Director:Stan Neumann
    Writer:Unknown
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    #11 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    #12 - 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.

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    Director:Stan Neumann
    Writer:Unknown
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    #13 - 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.

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    Director:Stan Neumann
    Writer:Unknown
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    #14 - 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.

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    #15 - 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.

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    #16 - 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.

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    Director:Stan Neumann
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    #17 - 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.

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    #18 - 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.

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    #19 - 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.

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    #20 - The Abbey Church of Saint Foy at Conques

    S1:E26

    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.

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    Director:Stan Neumann
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    #21 - The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao

    S1:E27

    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.

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    #22 - The Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans

    S1:E28

    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.

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    #23 - Jean Prouvé's House

    S1:E29

    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.

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    Director:Stan Neumann
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    #24 - The Multimedia Library of Sendai

    S1:E30

    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.

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    #25 - The Alhambra, Grenade

    S1:E31

    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.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Georges Pompidou Centre" is the worst rated episode of "Architectures". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Richard Copans and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/23/1998. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Family Lodging in Guise".