Image: Clip from Streets of Your Town. Our annual programme of shorts & films highlighting the life & work of our local legends of the built environment. The focus is on films about locals by locals and the perspective they offer us on who/what/why we are the way we are. Premiere at […]
Film: Strange & Familiar: Architecture On Fogo Island 2014, Dir. Katherine Knight and Marcia Connolly, 52 mins. This award-winning film documents a bold architecture project on remote Fogo Island, Newfoundland that embraces the excitement of living on the edge in relation to nature and contemporary design. A beautifully shot film that captures the stunning landscape and extraordinary […]
Australian Premiere Film: Concrete Love: The Böhm Family 2014, Dir. Maurizius Staerkle-Drux, 88 mins, German with English subtitles “Gottfried Böhm is widely regarded as Germany’s preeminent architect. The son of a master builder of churches, he is the patriarch of a modern architecture dynasty to which his three sons Stephan, Peter and Paul now belong. By realizing […]
Australian Premiere Film: Amare Gio Ponti (Loving Gio Ponti) 2015, Produced by Molteni & C Dada, 35mins An original project: the first documentary film about one of the legendary fathers of Italian design by Francesca Molteni in partnership with Salvatore Licitra. Amare Gio Ponti is dedicated to one of the most important design masters of the 20th century, Gio Ponti. A picture […]
Australian Premiere Film: Precise Poetry: The Architecture of Lina Bo Bardi 2013, Dir.Belinda Rukschcio, 53:27mins. Portuguese, English subtitled “I AM AN ARCHITECT. I BREAK WALLS!” A film about the famous Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi, who created poetry through architectural precision. Told in a series of interviews in Portuguese with English subtitles on the eve of her […]
Indulge yourself with a night of well-loved houses across 3 continents! Film: In Residence: Fernando Romero 2014, Nowness House Tour, Dir. Matthew Donaldson, 3:18mins. The architect opens up his modernist family home located in the heart of the capital city, and discusses his philosophy on the important things in life. The villa was originally […]