THE FIRST US SHOWING OF
Directed by Wim
Wenders
IF
BUILDINGS COULD TALK is a visual
investigation of the Rolex Learning Center in
Lausanne, the recently inaugurated futuristic
building designed by SANAA as the flagship of the
EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).
With this 3D video installation, Wim Wenders
explores the question of how buildings
communicate with their users responding to the
theme of the Biennale 2010 Set by Kasuyo Sejima,
"People Meet in Architecture".
A SNEAK PREVIEW
OF
 Directed
by: Jason Cohn and Bill
Jersey
The Architect and the Painter is the first film
about Charles and Ray Eames since their deaths
and the only film to peer inside their
collaboration, their marriage and the
"Renaissance studio" they created in a gritty
warehouse in Venice, CA. Narrated by James
Franco, the film draws from a trove of archival
material, primarily the stunning films and
photographs produced in mind-boggling volume by
Charles, Ray, and their staff during the
hyper-creative forty years of the Eames Office.
Family members and design historians help guide
the story, but it is in interviews with the
junior designers swept into the "24-7" world of
"The Eamery", that a fascinatingly complex
picture of this husband and wife creative team
really emerges.
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A WORLD
PREMIER OF
Directed by: Tom Piper
Even during the Great Recession of 2008, one new
apartment house in New York City continued to set
the bar for real-estate prices: 15 Central Park
West. Designed by Robert A. M. Stern Architects,
the lavish, limestone-clad structure from 61st to
62nd streets is arguably one of the most
luxurious residential buildings to rise in the
city in decades. Stern deliberately evokes the
grand era of New York apartments designed in the
1920s and 1930s, especially the intricately
planned architecture of Rosario Candela.
Stern.
Mr. Stern will participate in a Q&A after the
screening moderated by Ned Crammer from Architect
Magazine - Oct 22 Screening
and
THE US PREMIER OF
 Directed
by: Horst Brandenburg
Winner of the prestigious Pritzker prize in 2004
and the Praemium Imperiale in 2009, the
English-Iraqi architect and designer Zaha Hadid
(born in 1950) has long been controversial. This
film spotlights a leading figure in
deconstructivism and her visionary achievements
around the world: the MAXXI contemporary art
museum in Rome, the CMA-CGM tower in Marseille,
the Guangzhou Opera and a performing arts centre
in Abu Dhabi. It provides an overview of her main
projects from London to Hong Kong and in the
United Arab Emirates and features commentaries by
Tom Krens of the Guggenheim Foundation, architect
Patrick Schumacher, photographer Hélène Binet,
publisher Francesco Dal Co and stylist Karl
Lagerfeld.
Directed by: Bill Finnegan and Stephen
Kellert
Biophilic
design is an innovative way of designing the
places where we live, work, and learn. We need
nature in a deep and fundamental fashion, but we
have often designed our cities and suburbs in
ways that both degrade the environment and
alienate us from nature. The recent trend in
green architecture has decreased the
environmental impact of the built environment,
but it has accomplished little in the way of
reconnecting us to the natural world, the missing
piece in the puzzle of sustainable development.
Come on a journey from our evolutionary past and
the origins of architecture to the world’s most
celebrated buildings in a search for the
architecture of life. Together, we will encounter
buildings that connect people and nature -
hospitals where patients heal faster, schools
where children’s test scores are higher, offices
where workers are more productive, and
communities where people know more of their
neighbors and families thrive. Biophilic design
points the way toward creating healthy and
productive habitats for modern
humans.
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