2012 Architecture + Design Film Series
Presented By The Denver Film Society And Design Onscreen
Presented By The Denver Film Society And Design Onscreen
Films And Events In Program...
Architecture + Design Film Series PASS
Purchase the Architecture + Design Series Pass and experience all 11 screenings plus 5 receptions at a rate that can't be beat! Save over %40! $110 for Non-Members and $90 for DFS Members This Series Pass gets you in to as many of the Architecture + Design films, many of which are Colora... more
Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island
USA , 2012 , 86 min.
Director: Jake Gorst Colorado Premiere! Thursday, Sept. 6 @ 7:00pm Reception to follow at mod livin' Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island explores the work of the region’s best postwar architects and designers, including Albert Frey, Wallace Harrison, Herbert Beckhard, Frank Lloyd Wright,... more
Coast Modern
Canada , 2011 , 56 min.
Director: Michael Bernard , Gavin Froome Colorado Premiere! Friday, Sept. 7 @ 4:30pm Filmmakers Michael Bernard and Gavin Froome will take us on a journey from Los Angeles to Vancouver, from 1922 up to the present exploring modernist architecture on the West Coast. A core group of architects embraced the Coast with its particular ... more
The Gruen Effect: Victor Gruen and the Shopping Mall
Austria , 2009 , 54 min.
Director: Annette Baldauf , Katharina Weingartner Colorado Premiere! Saturday, Sept. 8 @ 2pm In The Gruen Effect, an architect’s life, work, and critical humor become a means to make sense of the cities we live in today. The Viennese architect Victor Gruen is considered the father of the shopping mall. His ideas about urban planning... more
Unfinished Spaces
USA , 2011 , 86 min.
Director: Benjamin Murray , Alysa Nahimas Thursday, Sept. 13 @ 7pm Reception to follow As the codirectors of Unfinished Spaces, Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray spent ten years chronicling the fate of Cuba’s National Art Schools, a cultural experiment 60 years in the making. Through a combination of archival footage, interv... more
Kochuu: Japanese Architecture/Influence and Origin
Sweden , 2006 , 52 min.
Director: Jesper Wachtmeister Friday, Sept. 14 @4:30pm Kochuu is a visually stunning film about modern Japanese architecture, its roots in the Japanese tradition, and its impact on the Nordic building tradition. Winding its way through visions of the future and traditional concepts, nature and concrete, gardens an... more
The Architecture of Carlo Scarpa
USA , 1996 , 57 min. Colorado Premiere! Saturday, Sept. 15 @ 2pm DOUBLE FEATURE INCLUDES both The Architecture of Carlo Scarpa and Unfinished Italy! Venetian-born Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) was radical in his approach to remodeling historic buildings, showing tremendous confidence in combining the ... more
Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line
USA , 2012 , 54 min.
Director: Muffie Dunn , Tom Piper Thursday, Sept. 20 @ 7pm Reception to follow Diller Scofidio + Renfro has long been at the forefront of design. The interdisciplinary design firm first stirred interest with its provocative exhibitions of theoretically based projects that blurred the boundaries between art and architecture.... more
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban History
USA , 2010 , 83 min.
Director: Chad Freidrichs Friday, Sept. 21 @ 4:30pm When it was built in the 1950s, the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis was a model example of affordable urban housing, providing an alternative to the slums and a home for low-income families in exodus from rural blight. But by 1972, the area had declined and... more
Mission Statements: The Architecture of Dutch Diplomacy
Netherlands , 2011 , 77 min.
Director: Jord Den Hollander Colorado Premiere! Saturday, Sept. 22 @ 2pm In 1991 the Netherlands Foreign Ministry decided to promote Dutch architecture abroad. All over the world prominent Dutch architects, including Rem Koolhaas, Bjarne Mastenbroek and Dick van Gamere, Lafour & Wijk and Claus and Kaan, designed new em... more
Detropia
USA , 2012 , 90 min.
Director: Heidi Ewing , Rachel Grady Colorado Premiere! Thursday, Sept. 27 @ 7pm Reception to follow at ignite! Restaurant Digital presentation - Detroit's story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century— the Great Migration of African Americans escaping Jim Crow; the rise of manufacturing ...more
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life
2011 , 60 min. Colorado Premiere! DOUBLE FEATURE INCLUDES both Biophilic Design and Passive Passion! IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE US PASSIVE HOUSE CONFERENCE Friday, Sept. 28 @ 7pm Reception to follow Biophilic Design is an innovative way of designing the places where we live, work, and learn. ... more
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