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Les Matérialistes is a short documentary film produced by Architecture Without Borders Quebec, Dark Matter Labs, Les Interstices, and RECYC-QUÉBEC about the titular participatory futurist pilot project that is focused on the circular economy of construction materials in Quebec. John Hill

The fifth edition of Living Places - Simon Architecture Prize launched at the end of May at Simon Company's headquarters in Barcelona. The event was accompanied by a new short film, “El Luchador,” that features a professional wrestler inside Agustín Hernández's famous Taller de Arquitectura in... John Hill

Riken Yamamoto, recipient of the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize, will present his laureate lecture, “Community: The Architect as Catalyst for Change,” at the Illinois Institute of Technology's S.R. Crown Hall in Chicago on Thursday, May 16. The lecture, followed by a panel discussion with... John Hill

The Glass House is displaying the Paper Log House designed by Shigeru Ban Architects and constructed by students from The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. A short film shows the fabrication of the building off-site and its assembly on Philip Johnson's 49-acre estate... John Hill

A new video by Preservation Futures, working with the Chicago Architecture Center and Alex Ensign, draws attention to the threats to the Century and Consumer Buildings in Chicago's Loop, which the Federal government wants to demolish and leave as empty lots over security concerns. John Hill

A short, 12-minute film from the Victoria and Albert Museum takes viewers insides some of the buildings in Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence, the exhibition at the V&A that looks at the colonial origins of Tropical Modernism in British West Africa. John Hill

Short films about resource extraction, Alison and Peter Smithson's Robin Hood Gardens, living conditions in Nepal, and a humorous take on the European housing crisis are the winners of the latest biennial TRANSFER Architecture Video Awards, announced on February 22. John Hill

Architects Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen of Chile's Pezo von Ellrichshausen speak about the drawings of Argentine architect Amancio Williams as they browse his archive at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, part of the third and last installment in the CCA's Out of the Box... John Hill

As we await the announcement of the finalists for the 2024 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, watch a half-hour video on the selection of the winners of the EUmies Awards 2022. John Hill

Five months after the Norman Foster retrospective exhibition wrapped up its three-month run at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Norman Foster Foundation has released a 45-documentary about the making of the exhibition and a survey of some of the numerous projects in the... John Hill

In a short film from Vlaams Architectuurinstituut (Flanders Architecture Institute), curators Bie Plevoets and Sofie De Caigny describe As Found. Experiments in Preservation, the exhibition focusing on contemporary approaches to renovating existing buildings that is John Hill

Listen to Ben van Berkel talk about his travels to China, the theater UNStudio is building in Hong Kong, projects in Australia, Germany and Spain, the recently completed John Hill

The latest architecture-related filmed interview from Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel features Reinier de Graaf, partner at OMA in... John Hill

London's Architecture Foundation recently held its annual Book Week, featuring “fourteen of the best newly published architecture books” in roughly half-hour videos presented by their authors. Some highlights. John Hill

With the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale wrapping up its six-month run on November 26, La Biennale di Venezia has been adding short videos to its 2023 architecture... John Hill

Vox Media explores the prevalence of brutalist concrete buildings on university campuses across the United States, speaking with University of Massachusetts professor Timothy M. Rohan, author of The Architecture of Paul Rudolph, to dig into the phenomenon — and many people's hatred... John Hill

A new video from Architectural Digest delves into something fans of architecture and cinema have long appreciated: the prevalence of ultra-modern houses as the lairs of villains in Hollywood movies. John Hill

Gwen North Reiss, a writer and poet who has been involved with The Glass House as an educator and historian since 2008, talks about the history and architecture of the famous building designed by Philip Johnson in 1949, in a ten-minute film made by Open Space. John Hill

Marc-Christoph Wagner interviewed Shelley McNamara, Pritzker Prize laureate and partner with Yvonne Farrell in Grafton Architects, during the UIA World Congress of Architects in July for the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel. John Hill

Architects Thom Mayne, Rienier de Graaf, and Peter Cook, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and other players involved in The Line, the controversial NEOM project unveiled in 2021, discuss the... John Hill

OPEN's sculptural Sun Tower topped out, appropriately, on June 21, the summer solstice. The 50-meter-tall structure in Yantai, China, is expected open to the public next year. Watch a time-lapse of its construction. John Hill

Short video portraits of the recipients of the Prix Meret Oppenheim 2023 have been released, with two of relevance featured here: art historian Stanislaus von Moos and architecture platform Parity Group. John Hill

The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) has released a three-part oral history of Julie Bargmann, the founder of D.I.R.T. studio and recipient of the Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize in 2021. John Hill

VernissageTV, which covers exhibitions and events in the fields of contemporary art, design and architecture, tours the 18th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale. John Hill

Following a four-year break, the biennial BAU trade fair took place at the Messe München exhibition center from April 17 to 22. A series of “BAU in 90 Sec” videos summarize some of the themes explored during the "world's largest trade fair for architecture, materials, systems." John Hill

As part of its “Built Ecologies: Architecture and Environment” video series, MoMA's Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment presents a short film on the New England Aquarium, designed by Peter Chermayeff and completed in 1969. John Hill

The DART Laboratory (Digital Architecture Research Technologies) at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College has unveiled a “groundbreaking advancement in creating an ultra-lightweight, 3D printed concrete wall.” A short film shows the design and construction of Shell Wall. John Hill

Edward Denison, professor at The Bartlett School of Architecture, delivered his inaugural lecture as part of the school's International Lecture Series on March 15. “End Time: Reflections on Design, Modernities, and the Anthropocene” reflects on Denison's 25-year career researching and... John Hill

A. Eugene (Gene) Kohn, one of the three founders of Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), died on March 9 at the age of 92. A short film from KPF and a 2020 interview with the Business of Architecture podcast illuminate Kohn's takes on the architectural profession. John Hill

The Noguchi Museum has release a 20-minute film about In Praise of Caves: Organic Architecture Projects from Mexico by Carlos Lazo, Mathias Goeritz, Juan O’Gorman, and Javier Senosiain, which wraps up its four-month run at the end of February. John Hill

The latest episode of “Architecture in Concrete,” a series created by EARCH magazine, takes viewers inside Kuba & Pilař's conversion of a 1980s canteen into the New Headquarters of the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague. John Hill

“Architecture as Organism (The Primordial Architect)” is one chapter in a film made by Bijoy and Premjit Ramachandran about architect Balkrishna Doshi, who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2018 and died on January 24, 2023. John Hill

For the Prada Fall Winter 2023 menswear show held inside the Deposito at Fondazione Prada, Rem Koolhaas and AMO devised a bare space with a movable ceiling punctuated... John Hill

On his popular "Architecture with Stewart" YouTube channel, Stewart Hicks presents the history of Kisho Kurokawa's Nakagin Capsule Tower, explains why it was demolished, and speaks with artist Noritaka Minami, who documented the tower for over a decade. John Hill

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art speaks with architect Kim Herforth Nielsen of Copenhagen's 3XN about Quay Quarter Tower, the recipient of the International... John Hill

N*thing is Possible has been on display at the National Design Centre since Singapore Design Week in September. The asterisk in the title invites visitors to take "a journey to zero waste" with hospitality brand Potato Head, who curated the exhibition with OMA and Shinji Takagi. A short... John Hill