architecture

This film displays ideas and experiments in art and architecture to design and dwell in portable, flexible, environmentally-friendly off-grid and compact homes.

This film criticizes the twentieth-century urban planning model of megacities and argues for a return to a human scale of design.

This film investigates how people in Italy respond to the permanently unfinished infrastructure surrounding them.

Life After People is a television series in which scientists, engineers, and other experts speculate about what Earth will be like if humanity instantly disappears.

Earthquakes occur along fault lines, sometimes with disastrous effects. These disturbances can significantly influence urban development, as seen in the aftermath of two earthquakes in Italy. Fault Lines follows the history of these places before and after their destruction, explores plans and developments that preceded the disasters, and the urbanism that emerged from the ruins.

This award-winning film examines the realities of urban poverty through the experiences of a community living in Brazil’s palafitas: shacks built over the water and supported by stilts.

In this article, Andrew Light and Aurora Wallace highlight several examples of how environmental architecture has combined success and failure at taking a broader view of environmental questions, with a specific focus on one green skyscraper that may be good for the natural environment but not necessarily for the human environment of the city.

In her article Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist highlights several examples of how environmental architecture has combined success and failure at taking a broader view of environmental questions.