Architecture & Audio Visual Learning

Any one related to field of Art & Architecture loves to see the work of great architects & legends of their particular fields & also wanted to learn from them. But it is not possible that a student can go & travel the whole world & meet each and every architect & learn from them. So, there is another way of doing it that is watching their work & learns from their interviews & talks. “Architecture Documentary” is a way of learning from your inspiration or idol architects.

DOCUMENTARY: Most of the documentaries are either filmed on individual architect’s work of a particular project. There are some documentaries which are base on architecture eras and principles of designing. I don’t know when the first film was made but according to me the first film is an American Short film dated back in 1967 & the name was “Monument to the Dream”.

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The Gateway Arch National Park, formerly known as the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial until 2018, is an American national park located in St. Louis, Missouri. The gate was design by The Gateway Arch, known as the "Gateway to the West", is the tallest structure in Missouri. It was designed by Finnish-American Architect Eero Saarinen and structural engineer Hannskarl Bandel in 1947 and built between 1963 and October 1965. It is 630 feet tall and 630 feet wide at its base. The supports are 54 feet wide at the base & 17 feet at the top of the arch. There is a unique tram system to carry passengers to the observation room at the top of the arch.

Some of the best directed &executed films according to me are,

1.       How much does your building weigh MR.Foster!

( works of Norman Foster )

2.       My Architect

( Documentary of luois kahn by his son )

3.       Sketches of Frank Gehry

( an episode from American Masters )

4.       First Person Singular : I.M.Pie

( works of architect I.M.Pie )

5.       Urbanized

6.       Unfinished Spaces

7.       Oscar Niemeyer - A Vida É Um Sopro

8.       Peter Eisenmman : Making architecture Move

9.       Big Time

As on now, There are also some of the nice movies like

Great expectation,

Infinite spaces,

Berlin Babylon,

Visual Acoustics,

If You Built It!,

Eames : The Architect and The Painter,

Los Angeles plays itself,

Garbage warrior,

Rem Kulhas,

Minimalism,

Ground Zero Supertower,

& so on…..

The list is too long.

You-tube Channels:

There are some you-tube channels they teach architecture as well as tricks & tips for students & professionals as well. There are some Product manufacturing companies & blogs also running channels on which they take interviews of Architects & talk about their works like Fesenta, Archdaily, etc.

WEB-SERIES:

From that time till now there are more than hundred documentaries world-wide. Some of them are available on you tube for free to watch some are paid. Nowadays there are new trends of web-series, architecture education are also on web series like, “MASTERCLASS”, “NETFLIX”, “REDDIT”, “YOUTUBE”, ETC. So, if you have subscription of them of other purposes!!! You can also use them for learning! (you know what I mean!)

Hope this will help you learning better!!!