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A Building Shaped by Light: Austin Central LibraryDirectors: Johnny McAllister and Annie Silverstein 2019 / 5 min / USA /
The new Austin Central Library was designed with two key goals in mind: it would be the most daylit library in the country, and it would serve as a water conservation model for institutional buildings. The client envisioned an iconic, civic hub where locals connect with their community by pursuing a variety of interests. The facility is based on flexible, blended spaces including indoor collections and reading rooms, outdoor reading porches, maker spaces, a technology center, café, 350-seat event center, art gallery, and demonstration kitchen. The unique rooftop butterfly garden and reading porches draw visitors to connect with nature.
A Little Piece of Earth Director: Ryan Malloy2019 / 15 min / USAIn 1968, the young architect Charles Bello and his pregnant wife, Vanna Rae, left the city to live on a 400-acre ranch in a remote redwood forest. As they worked to create a sustainable lifestyle, Charles was free to create fantastical structures subject only to the dictates of his own artistic vision. Now 86 and alone on the ranch, Charles reflects on his life’s work and its uncertain future.
A Place of Second ChancesDirector: HMC Architects2019 / 5 min / USA /
A Place of Second Chances presents the hopeful stories of two individuals who prove that the tide of recidivism can be reversed, when the prison is designed to comfort and rehabilitate, rather than simply punish. The first of its kind in the U.S., Las Colinas Detention and Reentry Facility in Santee, California, uses environmental and behavioral psychology to improve the experience and behavior of inmates and staff. Using scientifically proven research on how light, color, materials, texture, air quality, acoustics, and access to nature affect mental and physical well-being, design decisions were informed by the idea of transforming lives.
The Big Build: Crafting the Contemporary Countryside Director: Desmond Delanty2019 / 5 min / USA /A six-week design-build studio based in Hangzhou, China, the Big Build is the creation of American Desmond Delanty, founder of the architecture and research firm Hangzhou Art & Design Collaborative. Based on a five-year plan to transform multiple sites in the Da Hui Mountain village, the research- and construction-intensive course engages students, architects, amateurs, professionals, artisans, and locals in the process of ideation, iteration, modeling, construction, testing, and remaking.
Bud Bailey Director: Baron Necaise 2019 / 5 min / USA /Bud Bailey is a multifamily affordable-housing project located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Bud Bailey provides housing for low-income, refugee, and previously homeless individuals. Affordable housing has become such a huge problem in recent years, so we hope it can become a model for what affordable housing should look like: clean, safe, and affordable living for those in need.
CANOPY Directors: Laurie Little and Odile Compagnon 2019 / 5 min / USA /At 1330 South Pulaski, in North Lawndale, Chicago, a PermaPark is taking shape at one of the few green spaces in this 150-year-old neighborhood. The “food forest” of trees, shrubs, and community space is being built by locals, students, and others, guided by Odile Compagnon, architect and faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. CANOPY looks at how this project came to be, as well as similar community-based efforts around North Lawndale.
City DreamersDirector: Joseph Hillel2018 / 80 min / CanadaPhyllis Lambert, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Denise Scott Brown – four trailblazers who became accustomed to being the only woman in the room. Each has an extensive list of accomplishments in architecture, planning, and landscape architecture dating back 60+ years and has taught, mentored, and inspired generations of professionals. How have they envisioned our cities? Through original interviews, archival material and stunning cinematography, documentary filmmaker Joseph Hillel uncovers how each of these strong, independent thinkers has shaped the cities in which we live and work. As the world becomes increasingly urbanized, the insights of these forward-looking women who have built social and environmental values into their work seem more relevant than ever.
The EastPoint ProjectDirector: Hana Waugh2019 / 5 min / USA /The EastPoint Project on the northeast side of Oklahoma City is a reimagined outdoor mall given new life through a parternship between the architects at Gardner, the developers at Pivot Project, and Oklahoma City. The project aims to be a catalyst, to encourage public and private developers to invest in the east side, and to inspire the community to envision what the neighborhood could become by rebuilding, rehabilitating, and infilling empty lots. As a product of the partnership, EastPoint hopes to be the first of many new developments where ownership is a part of the leasing agreement, so that eastside business owners to have the opportunity to hold equity in the real estate to which they help give value.
Escher: Journey Into InfinityDirector: Robin Lutz2018/ 80 min / Netherlands Based on more than 1,000 letters, diaries, and lectures, Journey Into Infinity is the story of the world-famous Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher. The film traces Escher’s inspirations through his own words, and features interviews with Escher’s sons and musician Graham Nash (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), who discusses Escher’s rediscovery in the ’70s. Viewers also see Escher’s continued influence on comic strips, advertising, movies, and art.
Frey II: The Architectural InterpreterDirector: Jake Gorst2020 / 90 min / USA
In 1939, Swiss-born Corbusian architectural envoy Albert Frey embarked on a decades-long journey of discovery. His world travels and love of nature would lead him to carve out a new style of modernism, leaving its indelible mark on the desert community of Palm Springs, California. With never-before-seen archival films, photographs, and interviews, Frey II: The Architectural Interpreter continues to reveal the mystique of an influential architectural master. This film is the second part of a two-part documentary. Frey: Part I - The Architectural Envoy was released in 2018.
Gateways to New YorkDirector: Martin Witz2018 / 88 min / Switzerland
Gateways to New York is a story about the Swiss structural engineer Othmar H. Amman, who emigrated to New York in 1904 and redefined the art of bridge building in America. Amman’s own life, career, and breathtaking constructions were framed by the steady, dynamic acceleration of 20th century America: the roaring twenties, mass motorization, the Great Depression, war, suburbanization, and the economic boom that led to modern consumer society. In addition to his seminal George Washington Bridge Ammann’s most important projects in New York are the Bayonne Bridge, the Triborough, the Bronx Whitestone, Throgs Neck Bridge, and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Othmar Amman’s life straddles the 19th century and the end of Classical Modernism.
GOFFDirector: Britni Harris2018 / 91 min / USA
Bruce Goff was one of the greatest American architects of the 20th century. His unconventional perspective challenged stigmas about the Midwest’s inability to produce innovative work. A peer to Frank Lloyd Wright, his work had a profound influence on the next generation of architects, including Phillip Johnson and Frank Gehry. However, Goff’s willingness to explore unprecedented forms often solicited polarized perspectives of his work. As a result of establishing his practice in an otherwise conservative landscape and his unabashed desire to experiment with the possibilities of form, much of his work has been left to decay, or forgotten altogether. GOFF explores the life of an iconoclast and chronicles the events that lead to the destruction and renewed interest of his memory and dwellings.
The Human ShelterDirector: Boris Benjamin Bertram2018 / 57 min / Denmark
The Human Shelter is an epic, poetic journey investigating how we, as human beings, design and build our homes. The film explores the concept of “home” and how humans express themselves creatively within that sacred space, whether it’s a lagoon settlement in Lagos, a refugee camp in Iraq, or a six square-meter dwelling in Tokyo.
Instruments in the Architecture: Building The PianodromeDirectors: Austen McCowan and Will Hewitt2019 / 14 min / UKPianos are being thrown away at a tremendous rate: hauled away, set on fire, and their valuable heavy metal sold for scrap. Tim and Leon and their team of inspired artists, musicians, and volunteers have reclaimed these unloved instruments to build the world’s first 100-seat amphitheatre made entirely from up-cycled pianos. Balancing the artistic integrity of Tim’s vision with Leon’s practicality and realism tests the strength of their relationship as they race to complete the Pianodrome for its debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. James Hubbell - Between Heaven and EarthDirector: Marianne Gerdes2019 / 66 min / USAJames Hubbell has been driven to have a conversation with the world, using his art and his architecture to give flight to his deepest beliefs. A life lived in harmony with the environment that surrounds his southern California mountain home has inspired works so exquisite they’ve been commissioned for churches, synagogues, parks, even a palace. He synthesizes tile, glass, iron, clay, and stone together to work in support of each other so when he designs, everything from a door handle to a window to a wall to a roof becomes part of the artistic expression. Hubbell’s creations say things he can’t express in words. Inspired by nature and filled with humanity, at age 87, his is a quiet, yet compelling voice of an artist who shows us that power has nothing to do with how old you are, or how big you are, or how strong you are; creativity transcends everything.
The Man & The Architect - Jørn UtzonDirectors: Lene Borch and Anna von Lowzow2018 / 90 min / Denmark
This documentary about Jørn Utzon tells the personal and emotional story about the world-renowned architect and his unique gift. Behind him stood the love of his life through 70 years, Lis, without whom Jørn would not have become the architect and man he was. His story is told by the people who were closest to him for decades: his children, close colleagues, and friends, who all share anecdotes and experiences in an open and honest fashion.
Mario Botta. The Space BeyondDirectors: Loretta Dalpozzo and Michèle Volontè2018 / 77 min / Switzerland
The documentary directed and produced by Loretta Dalpozzo and Michèle Volontè is a rare, in-depth artistic journey into the work of Swiss architect Mario Botta. The film explores Botta’s ever-growing curiosity and reflections on the contradictions of society through his sacred spaces. Passionate, tireless, Botta is one of the few architects who has built places of prayer for the three main monotheistic religions and is now designing a mosque in China.
Masters of Modern Design: The Art of the Japanese American ExperienceDirector: Akira Boch2019 / 56 min / USA From the hand-drawn typeface on the cover of The Godfather to Herman Miller’s biomorphic coffee table, the work of Japanese American designers including Ruth Asawa, George Nakashima, Isamu Noguchi, S. Neil Fujita, and Gyo Obata permeated postwar culture. While these second-generation Japanese American artists have been celebrated, less-discussed is how their World War II incarceration—a period of intense hardship and discrimination—had a powerful effect on their lives and art.
Miracle on 42nd StreetDirector: Alice Elliott2017 / 68 min / USA
What do Alicia Keys, Terrance Howard, Donald Faison, Larry David, Samuel L Jackson, Giancarlo Esposito and Angela Lansbury have in common? They are all in this film, and at one time they all lived in an apartment complex called Manhattan Plaza in New York City. Narrated by Chazz Palminteri, Miracle on 42nd Street is the untold story about the history and impact of the Manhattan Plaza apartment complex in New York City. Starting with the facilities’ initial commercial failure in the dire 1970s, the film recounts how the buildings were “re-purposed” as subsidized housing for people who worked in the performing arts. The social experiment was a resounding success in the lives of the tenants, and it led the way in the transformation of the neighborhood and local economy. The film makes a compelling case for both the economic value of the arts and artists in America.
The New BauhausDirector: Alysa Nahmias2019 / 85 min / USA
Fleeing from Germany as the Nazis invaded in the lead up to World War II, László Moholy-Nagy came to Chicago in 1937 to start the New Bauhaus. Despite some initial struggles, Moholy-Nagy and his New Bauhaus forever transformed design, photography, and arts education. The film offers an intimate, emotional journey through Moholy-Nagy’s life and his work as an artist, designer, visionary, and teacher.
Of Vineyards and ShoeboxesDirector: Günter Atteln2019 / 58 min / Germany In recent years, numerous important concert halls have opened their doors to the public, drawing attention to an almost unknown guild: the acousticians. Without their precise calculations, architects would be lost, and prestigious buildings such as the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg or the new Zaryadye Concert Hall in Moscow would be ineffectual. Of Vineyards And Shoeboxes is a journey through the world of sound, accompanying world class acousticians who work at the intersection of physics and art.
PUSHDirector: Fredrik Gertten2019 / 90 min / Sweden
Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities around the world while incomes remain stagnant. PUSH sheds light on the “faceless landlord”―increasingly unlivable cities, and an escalating inequality crisis that threatens all walks of life. The film follows Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, as she travels the globe, trying to understand who’s being pushed out of the city, and why.
That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los AngelesDirector: Christopher Hawthorne 2018 / 56 min / USA
During his time in Southern California in the 1910s and early 1920s, Frank Lloyd Wright accelerated the search for an authentic L.A. architecture that might be experimental but also responsive to the city’s history, culture, and landscape. Writer/director Christopher Hawthorne, architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times, explores the five Maya-inspired houses the legendary architect built in Los Angeles in that period. The documentary also delves into the critic’s provocative theory that these designs were a means of artistic catharsis for Wright, who was recovering from a violent, tragic episode in his life.
What It Takes to Make a HomeDirectors: Giovanna Borasi and Daniel Schwartz 2019 / 28 min / Canada
What does it mean to live in the city without a place you can call your own? What role can architects have in addressing homelessness? And how can cities become a better home for all? This film follows a conversation between architects Michael Maltzan (Los Angeles) and Alexander Hagner (Vienna), who have been grappling with these questions over many years and through various projects. While the cities and the political and economic contexts in which Maltzan and Hagner work differ, both search for long-term strategies for housing instead of reacting with ad hoc solutions. Focusing on some causes and conditions of homelessness, the film questions the role architects can play toward overcoming the stigmatization of people experiencing it, in order to build more inclusive cities.
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FILM SCHEDULE Great Hall Auditorium Pension Commissioner’s SuiteDate / Time
Thursday, March 26
5 PM
6 PM
7 PM
8 PM
9 PM
Friday, March 27
5 PM
6 PM
7 PM
8 PM
9 PM
Saturday, March 28
12 PM
1 PM
2 PM
3 PM
4 PM
5 PM
6 PM
7 PM
8 PM
Sunday, March 29
12 PM
1 PM
2 PM
3 PM
4 PM
5 PM
6 PM
7 PM
8 PM
March 26–29, 2020 Washington, D.C.
Presented by the National Building Museum with the Revada Foundation
7:45Opening Night City Dreamers
4:45 Frey II: The Architectural Interpreter
12:30 What It Takes to Make a Home
with Miracle on 42nd Street
3:00 Escher: Journey Into Infinity
7:15 The Human Shelter
5:15 Frey II: The Architectural Interpreter
3:00 What It Takes to Make a Home
with Miracle on 42nd Street
2:15 James Hubbell -
Between Heaven and Earthwith
A Little Piece of Earth
12:45 James Hubbell -
Between Heaven and Earth with
A Little Piece of Earth
2:45 Of Vineyards and Shoeboxes
withInstruments in the Architecture: Building The Pianodrome
4:30 Gateways to New York
6:45 The Man & The Architect - Jørn Utzon
4:30 Masters of Modern Design:
The Art of the Japanese American Experience with
A Place of Second Chances
6:45 The Human Shelter
6:15That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles
with A Building Shaped by Light: Austin Central Library
12:45Escher: Journey Into Infinity 1:00
Mario Botta. The Space Beyond
5:00The Man & The Architect - Jørn Utzon
7:15The New Bauhaus
1:00That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles
with A Building Shaped by Light: Austin Central Library
2:45Masters of Modern Design:
The Art of the Japanese American Experiencewith
A Place of Second Chances
7:00 City Dreamers
4:45GOFF
2:45PUSH
withThe EastPoint Project
7:00GOFF
8:15 PUSH
withThe EastPoint Project
7:30Opening Night City Dreamers
6:00Gateways to New York
8:00Mario Botta. The Space Beyond
7:30Opening Night City Dreamers
6:30 The New Bauhaus
8:30 Of Vineyards and Shoeboxes
withInstruments in the Architecture: Building The Pianodrome
5:30Reception
Q&A with Joseph Hillel, director
Q&A with Jake Gorst, director
Q&A with Britni Harris, director
Q&A with Britni Harris, director
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Celebrate the National Building Museum’s reopening as well as its 40th anniversary at the third annual Architecture and Design Film Festival. Join the festival’s sponsors and other cineastes during three days of feature-length movies and film shorts that showcase social inclusion, explorations of what “home” means, and stories about visionary designers.
Great Hall Theater Watch films in the Museum’s iconic Great Hall on a 9’ x 16’ screen, with projection bright enough to see during daylight hours and using wireless headsets for perfect, personalized acoustics under the majestic columns.
Pension Commissioner’s Suite See films in the Museum’s Pension Commissioner’s Suite on an 8’ x 14’ screen, which is transformed into an intimate Black Box theater just for the Film Festival. Film Festival Lounge
Relax between screenings in the Film Festival Lounges on furniture provided by the Herman Miller showroom and Design Foundry. Grab a drink or something to eat and chat with your fellow festival-goers about the movie you just saw, or watch a selection of six short films from the American Institute of Architects 2019 Film Challenge:
• The EastPoint Project• A Place of Second Chances• A Building Shaped by Light: Austin Central Library• CANOPY• Bud Bailey• The Big Build
PRICING$12 Member$5 Student $15 Non-member
$135 All Access Pass: including opening night event and all film programming
MUSEUM HOURSMonday–Saturday, 10 am–5 pm; Sunday, 11 am–5 pm
CONTACT Public inquiries: 202.272.2448 or visit www.nbm.org
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SPONSORSThe Architecture & Design Film Festival: D.C. is presented with the Revada Foundation of the Logan Family.
6:45Welcome remarks and panel discussion with Yolanda Cole,
Lisa Delplace, and Susan Piedmont-Palladino
Q&A with Kyle Bergman
FILM SCHEDULE Great Hall Auditorium Pension Commissioner’s Suite Date / Time
Thursday, March 26
5 PM
6 PM
7 PM
8 PM
9 PM
Friday, March 27
5 PM
6 PM
7 PM
8 PM
9 PM
Saturday, March 28
12 PM
1 PM
2 PM
3 PM
4 PM
5 PM
6 PM
7 PM
8 PM
Sunday, March 29
12 PM
1 PM
2 PM
3 PM
4 PM
5 PM
6 PM
7 PM
8 PM
March 26–29, 2020 Washington, D.C.
Presented by the National Building Museum with the Revada Foundation
7:45Opening Night City Dreamers
4:45 Frey II: The Architectural Interpreter
12:30 What It Takes to Make a Home
with Miracle on 42nd Street
3:00 Escher: Journey Into Infinity
7:15 The Human Shelter
5:15 Frey II: The Architectural Interpreter
3:00 What It Takes to Make a Home
with Miracle on 42nd Street
2:15 James Hubbell -
Between Heaven and Earthwith
A Little Piece of Earth
12:45 James Hubbell -
Between Heaven and Earth with
A Little Piece of Earth
2:45 Of Vineyards and Shoeboxes
withInstruments in the Architecture: Building The Pianodrome
4:30 Gateways to New York
6:45 The Man & The Architect - Jørn Utzon
4:30 Masters of Modern Design:
The Art of the Japanese American Experience with
A Place of Second Chances
6:45 The Human Shelter
6:15That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles
with A Building Shaped by Light: Austin Central Library
12:45Escher: Journey Into Infinity1:00
Mario Botta. The Space Beyond
5:00The Man & The Architect - Jørn Utzon
7:15The New Bauhaus
1:00That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles
with A Building Shaped by Light: Austin Central Library
2:45Masters of Modern Design:
The Art of the Japanese American Experiencewith
A Place of Second Chances
7:00 City Dreamers
4:45GOFF
2:45PUSH
withThe EastPoint Project
7:00GOFF
8:15 PUSH
withThe EastPoint Project
7:30Opening Night City Dreamers
6:00Gateways to New York
8:00Mario Botta. The Space Beyond
7:30Opening Night City Dreamers
6:30 The New Bauhaus
8:30 Of Vineyards and Shoeboxes
withInstruments in the Architecture: Building The Pianodrome
5:30Reception
Q&A with Joseph Hillel, director
Q&A with Jake Gorst, director
Q&A with Britni Harris, director
Q&A with Britni Harris, director
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Great Hall Theater Watch films in the Museum’s iconic Great Hall on a 9’ x 16’ screen, with projection bright enough to see during daylight hours and using wireless headsets for perfect, personalized acoustics under the majestic columns.
Pension Commissioner’s Suite See films in the Museum’s Pension Commissioner’s Suite on an 8’ x 14’ screen, which is transformed into an intimate Black Box theater just for the Film Festival. Film Festival Lounge
Relax between screenings in the Film Festival Lounges on furniture provided by the Herman Miller showroom and Design Foundry. Grab a drink or something to eat and chat with your fellow festival-goers about the movie you just saw, or watch a selection of six short films from the American Institute of Architects 2019 Film Challenge:
• The EastPoint Project• A Place of Second Chances• A Building Shaped by Light: Austin Central Library• CANOPY• Bud Bailey• The Big Build
PRICING$12 Member$5 Student $15 Non-member
$135 All Access Pass: including opening night event and all film programming
MUSEUM HOURSMonday–Saturday, 10 am–5 pm; Sunday, 11 am–5 pm
CONTACT Public inquiries: 202.272.2448 or visit www.nbm.org
401 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20001Metro: Judiciary Square Gallery Place-Chinatown
facebook.com/NationalBuildingMuseum
@BuildingMuseum
@NationalBuildingMuseum
SPONSORSThe Architecture & Design Film Festival: D.C. is presented with the Revada Foundation of the Logan Family.
6:45Welcome remarks and panel discussion with Yolanda Cole,
Lisa Delplace, and Susan Piedmont-Palladino
Q&A with Kyle Bergman