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Architectures
Trailer: Architectures
Runtime: 26:28 minutes
Quality: HD
First Air Date: Sep 19, 1996
Last Air date: Oct 29, 2017
Episode: 67 Episode
Season: 1 Season
The Villa Dall'Ava
Rem Koolhaas built a unique villa on the heights of Saint-Cloud.
Nemausus 1
In Nîmes, Jean Nouvel conceived a block of tenement houses reminiscent of a cruise liner. An architectural utopia that pokes fun at the truisms...
The Iron House
In late 19th century Brussels, the Art Nouveau movement was laying the foundations of a new concept in architecture, and Victor Horta was the...
Charlety, a Stadium in the City
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...
Pierrefonds, the Architect's Castle
Middle Aged castle rebuilt by Viollet Le Duc for the Emperor Napoleon III. A reconstruction that paradoxically opened the way for modern...
The Vienna Savings Bank
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...
The Georges Pompidou Centre
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...
Family Lodging in Guise
The philanthropist company boss Andre Godin built a workers' housing estate with a palatial air. Social housing is born.
A House in Bordeaux
Designed by the architect Rem Koolhaas for a couple whose husband became disabled following a road accident, the architect's plan for this...
The Dessau Bauhaus
Walter Gropius' main achievement is the buildings of the Bauhaus, built in 1926. His pioneering architecture saw the birth of one of the most...
Satolas - TGV
An astonishing concrete and steel structure designed for an open field in the Lyon countryside. An astonishing feat undertaken by Calatrava, which...
The Johnson Building
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...
The Paris Fine Art School
In the heart of Paris, architect Duban's 'École des Beaux-Arts' provides its students with an architectural "temple" representing a 19th...
The Siza School
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...
The Stone Thermal Baths
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...
The Galleria Umberto I
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...
The Saint Pancras Station
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,...
The Wind Box
The Fort de France Education Authority is the only example of a contemporary architectural building in Martinique. It is also the only official...
The Garnier Opera
The Garnier Opera by Charles Garnier This is Paris's most prestigious 19th century building, the pinnacle of the "Beaux Arts" style with its...
The Jewish Museum Berlin
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...
The Convent of La Tourette
With the Convent of La Tourette, commissioned by the Dominicans of Lyons, Le Courbusier was charged with the task of creating this rural convent...
The Auditorium Building in Chicago
At the end of the 19th century, Louis Henry Sullivan, the father of American architecture, built the world's largest opera house, a "democratic"...
The Municipal Center of Säynätsalo
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...
The Casa Milá
A block of flats in Barcelona, the Casa Milà is an extraordinarily sculpted work created by the great Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi. The Art...
The Glass House
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...
The Abbey Church of Saint Foy at Conques
Built in 1050, the Abbey is one of the foremost pilgrim churches of the Christian world. Rational, svelte and light-filled Romanesque architecture...
The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
Known for his strange and deconstructed forms, Frank Gehry designed this monumental, but chaotic and abstract-looking sculpture in 1967. Covered in...
The Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
The visionary architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, one of the earliest exponents of French Neoclassical design, built a monumental factory for the king...
Jean Prouvé's House
In 1953, while going through his worst life-crisis, French designer Jean Prouvé built "his" house. Designed in haste, it embodies his most...
The Multimedia Library of Sendai
A glass cube, built in 2001 by Toyo Ito, this library provides an example of immaterial and evanescent architecture. The multimedia library is...
The Alhambra, Grenade
Worried that their dynasty would disappear, the Nasrid sultans built this Red Castle in a strategic location over the city of Granada, ensuring that...
Phaeno, Building as Landscape
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...
The House of Sugimoto
Built in Kyoto in 1743, this traditional Japanese architectural masterpiece portrays a different understanding of architecture and building. It is a...
The Reception and Congress Building in Rome
In the most ambitious of the Mussolini regime's buildings, the leader of Italy's modern movement Adalberto Libera attempted the impossible...
The Yoyogo Olympic Gymnasiums
For the 1964 summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Kenzo Tange designed two concrete gymnasiums which evoke a sense of movement. Famous for their...
The Villa Barbaro
By inventing the villa, a new type of housing, in 1550, Palladio sought to combine aesthetics with utility. This rigorous and innovative approach...
The Royal Mosque at Isfahan
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 Menier Chocolate Factory
The Menier factory at Noisiel, outside Paris, was the largest chocolate factory in the world between 1870 and 1914. Throughout its three successive...
The Pyramid of Pharoah Djoser at Saqqara
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...
The German Pavilion in Barcelona
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...
The SAS Royal Hotel
The SAS Royal Hotel tower marked Denmark's entry into post-war modernity. It is a major work that combines functionalism, simplicity and elegance,...
Roissy 1
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...
The Maisons Castle
Although its posterity has now rendered its image commonplace, the Maisons Laffitte Chateau revolutionized French architecture. It is the...
The Luxembourg Philharmonic
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...
VitraHaus
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...
The Igualada Cemetery
The Citadel de Lille
Vauban's "Queen of the citadels" was the model for military construction all over France. Built between 1668 and 1671, its exacting and simple...
The Sainte-Geneviève Library
Breaking away from the 19th century neoclassical trend, Henri Labrouste erected a powerful public building in which stone featured along side a...
The Church of Notre-Dame du Raincy
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...
Ewha, the Seoul Hidden University
With this building, Dominique Perrault continues a concept that is dear to him, the absence of architecture. The urban dimension and the way the...
The Rolex Learning Center
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...
The National Dance Center
The mutation of a concrete mastodon, the Pantin Administrative Center (1969) into the French National Dance Center (2004)... Or the successful...
The Cologne Cathedral
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...
The Citadel of Leisure, the Pompeia Social Service Center
In the Palmeiras district of São Paulo, early 20th century former factory workshops are aligned with strange blocks of cement that stand...
The Hotels de Soubise and de Rohan
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...
The French Communist Party Headquarters
A mysterious white dome and an undulating glass facade, the headquarters of the French Communist Party, built between 1965 and 1980, by Oscar...
The Unal House
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...
The Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam
A cross between Taylorism and Bauhaus, the Van Nelle factory at Rotterdam was built between 1926 and 1931. Designed by the architects Jan Brickman...
The Glass Galleon
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...
Itimad-ud-Daulah, the Mughal Mausoleum
The mausoleum of Itimad-ud-Daulah, built of white marble encrusted with semi-precious stones, in Agra the capital of the Mughal Empire. Islamic...
The Home for All at Rikuzentakata
After Japan's 2011 tsunami, a group of architects led by Toyo Ito launched the "Home for All" project, providing community centers for the...
The Wa Shan Guesthouse
The Wa Shan, literally "Tile Mountain", is an astonishing guesthouse, built by Chinese architect Wang Shu, who pursues the aim of sustainable...
The Glasgow School of Art
Built at the dawn of the 20th century by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the Glasgow School of Art is a masterpiece that combines the constructive...
The Sante, a Prison in Paris
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 Bamboo School of Bali
An astonishing structure in which three cones flow together into one roof that protects a school building made of bamboo. An ambitious program built...
Médiacité - a Designer Mall
Seen from the sky, a long stained-glass window structures the commercial center. At Médiacité, the experimental, provocative Israeli...
The Phillips Exeter Academy Library
A masterpiece of geometry and of architectural precision, the library is one of Lous Kahn's last works. Louis Kahn reinvented library layouts by...
Secrets of Britain (2014)
The enormous popularity of recent British dramas such as Downton Abbey, Mr. Selfridge, and Sherlock, has led to vast interest in the real-life...
Espaces (2021)
Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse meets people who know and care about architecture, real estate and design, and finds out what guided their choices in the...
Nairn's Journeys (1971)
Writer and journalist Ian Nairn presents a series of travels, examining architecture and culture across Europe.
Grand Designs Abroad (2004)
Kevin McCloud presents Grand Designs Abroad. The stakes are higher, the risks are multiplied, and the ambition - to build your dream home in the...
