Christoph Schaub - Films on Architecture

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A controversial Spanish engineer-architect journeys to building sites around the world. A renowned structural engineer attempts to defy gravity. Two architects search for the bestand sometimes most unusualsolutions in urban planning and development. And celebrated Swiss architects design an iconic Olympic Stadium for the Beijing games. Christoph Schaubs documentaries tell these stories and more in this collection of nine of his films. From his first, award-winning documentary Il GirasoleA House Near Verona, about an experimental rotating house in Italy, to BrasiliaA Utopia Modernity, which explores the exhilarating experience of building Brazils capital city, Schaubs documentaries prove that architecture can actually be captured on film. Through his moving images, as well as his way of looking at and showing architecture, he captivates viewers instantly as he tells fascinating stories about internationally renowned architectsincluding Santiago Calatrava, Herzog & de Meuron, Oscar Niemeyer, and Peter Zumthorand the buildings they create. The three DVDs offer each film in its original version with subtitles in English, French, and German, and the accompanying booklet presents a short essay on Schaubs work and brief introductions to the ten films. The films: I l Girasole A House Near Verona (1995, 17 mins) Place, Function and Form - The Architecture of Gion A. Caminada and Peter Zumthor (1996, 24 mins) White Coal (1997, 24 mins) The Vrin Projekt (1999, 48 mins) Santiago Calatrava's Travels (1999, 77 mins) The Art of Justification - Jürg Conzett (2001, 14 mins) The Shift in Meanings - Meili, Peter (2001,14 mins) Brasilia A Utopia of Modernity (2007, 26 mins) Birds Nest Herzog & de Meuron in China (2008, 87 Min.)

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