FIRST U.S. SHOWING
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".
SNEAK
PREVIEW
 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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WORLD PREMIERE
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 talk back.
U.S.
PREMIERE
 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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