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Architectures (1996) is a documentary web series in English. On MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Architectures online in HD.

Architectures — Storyline

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 at the end of the 19th century to the latest designs from today's top architects. By examining each building in detail, the series brings to light the role each has played in the history and evolution of architecture.

Cast & Crew

Architectures — Series Details

Architectures — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: The Villa Dall'Ava (1996-09-19) — Rem Koolhaas built a unique villa on the heights of Saint-Cloud.
• E2: Nemausus 1 (1996-09-26) — 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.
• E3: The Iron House (1996-10-03) — 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 w
• E4: Charlety, a Stadium in the City (1996-10-10) — 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 i
• E5: Pierrefonds, the Architect's Castle (1996-10-17) — Middle Aged castle rebuilt by Viollet Le Duc for the Emperor Napoleon III. A reconstruction that paradoxically opened the way for modern architecture.
• E6: The Vienna Savings Bank (1998-07-02) — 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-archit
• E7: The Georges Pompidou Centre (1998-07-23) — 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 architectur
• E8: Family Lodging in Guise (1998-08-13) — The philanthropist company boss Andre Godin built a workers' housing estate with a palatial air. Social housing is born.
• E9: A House in Bordeaux (1998-08-27) — 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
• E10: The Dessau Bauhaus (2001-03-03) — 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
• E11: Satolas – TGV (2001-03-10) — 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 speed
• E12: The Johnson Building (2001-03-17) — 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 Wrigh
• E13: The Paris Fine Art School (2001-03-24) — 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
• E14: The Siza School (2001-04-14) — 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 ther
• E15: The Stone Thermal Baths (2001-04-21) — 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.
• E16: The Galleria Umberto I (2001-05-19) — 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.
• E17: The Saint Pancras Station (2001-06-02) — 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,
• E18: The Wind Box (2001-06-09) — 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
• E19: The Garnier Opera (2001-06-16) — 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
• E20: The Jewish Museum Berlin (2003-07-05) — 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
• E21: The Convent of La Tourette (2003-07-26) — 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 religiou
• E22: The Auditorium Building in Chicago (2003-09-06) — 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
• E23: The Municipal Center of Säynätsalo (2003-09-13) — 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
• E24: The Casa Milá (2003-09-20) — 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
• E25: The Glass House (2005-02-26) — 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 th
• E26: The Abbey Church of Saint Foy at Conques (2005-03-05) — 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 cliche
• E27: The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao (2005-03-19) — 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 bui
• E28: The Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans (2005-04-02) — 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
• E29: Jean Prouvé's House (2005-04-30) — 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.
• E30: The Multimedia Library of Sendai (2005-05-14) — 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 Sen
• E31: The Alhambra, Grenade (2007-03-11) — 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, dedi
• E32: Phaeno, Building as Landscape (2007-03-18) — 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 a
• E33: The House of Sugimoto (2007-04-01) — Built in Kyoto in 1743, this traditional Japanese architectural masterpiece portrays a different understanding of architecture and building. It is a typical 'machiya' (Kyoto tradit
• E34: The Reception and Congress Building in Rome (2007-04-15) — 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. I
• E35: The Yoyogo Olympic Gymnasiums (2007-05-20) — 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 regarde
• E36: The Villa Barbaro (2007-06-17) — 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 o
• E37: The Royal Mosque at Isfahan (2009-02-11) — 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 A
• E38: The Menier Chocolate Factory (2009-09-13) — 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
• E39: The Pyramid of Pharoah Djoser at Saqqara (2009-09-20) — 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 revoluti
• E40: The German Pavilion in Barcelona (2009-09-27) — 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 sp
• E41: The SAS Royal Hotel (2009-10-11) — 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 th
• E42: Roissy 1 (2009-10-25) — 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.
• E43: The Maisons Castle (2009-11-15) — Although its posterity has now rendered its image commonplace, the Maisons Laffitte Chateau revolutionized French architecture. It is the masterpiece of the brilliant architect Fr
• E44: The Luxembourg Philharmonic (2009-12-06) — 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 th
• E45: VitraHaus (2011-10-02) — 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
• E46: The Igualada Cemetery (2011-10-09)
• E47: The Citadel de Lille (2011-10-16) — 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 inspi
• E48: The Sainte-Geneviève Library (2011-10-30) — 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 a
• E49: The Church of Notre-Dame du Raincy (2011-11-13) — 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 con
• E50: Ewha, the Seoul Hidden University (2011-12-04) — 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 prev
• E51: The Rolex Learning Center (2013-05-05) — 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 d
• E52: The National Dance Center (2013-05-19) — 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. A
• E53: The Cologne Cathedral (2013-05-26) — 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 Go
• E54: The Citadel of Leisure, the Pompeia Social Service Center (2013-06-23) — 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
• E55: The Hotels de Soubise and de Rohan (2013-07-07) — 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 Gui
• E56: The French Communist Party Headquarters (2015-08-30) — 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 curta
• E57: The Unal House (2015-09-06) — 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
• E58: The Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam (2015-09-13) — 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
• E59: The Glass Galleon (2015-09-20) — 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
• E60: Itimad-ud-Daulah, the Mughal Mausoleum (2015-10-04) — 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
• E61: The Home for All at Rikuzentakata (2015-10-11) — 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. Thr
• E62: The Wa Shan Guesthouse (2015-10-18) — 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 practi
• E63: The Glasgow School of Art (2015-10-25) — 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
• E64: The Sante, a Prison in Paris (2017-10-08) — 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", t
• E65: The Bamboo School of Bali (2017-10-15) — 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 renewabl
• E66: Médiacité – a Designer Mall (2017-10-22) — 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 archi
• E67: The Phillips Exeter Academy Library (2017-10-29) — 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

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does Architectures have? 1 season(s) with 67 episodes.

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