Beat Kuert
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
One year after Friedrich Durrenmatt's death (14th December 1990), his wife Charlotte Kerr asks Mario Botta to create a museum for Durrenmatt's paintings. The Centre Durrenmatt in Neuchatel is opened to the public in September 2000. The small museum hosts the graphic and pictorial work of the famous writer, which has always been an integral part of of his life. The structure emanates the strong synergy present between Botta's architecture and the writer's...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Mario Botta - La Nuova Scala is a film documenting the renovation of the historical 'La Scala' theater complex in Milan. It features interviews with the Swiss architect, Mario Botta, as well as an overview of the renovation process.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
The Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron were jointly awarded the 2001 Pritzker Prize, their profession's highest honour, for combining "the artistry of an age-old profession with the fresh approach of a new century's technical capabilities". Over the past twenty years they have been involved in finding inventive architectural solutions to building a diverse range of projects - domestic, municipal and commercial - from a modest switching...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Jean Nouvel is one of the most innovative and unconventional architects of our time. He owes his fame to projects such as the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, the Opera House in Lyon, the Cartier Foundation Headquarters, as well as his spectacular design of the Tokyo opera and the boldness of his "Endless Tower". This film casts a fresh, explicit glance at the scope of this architect and his work as Nouvel explains what architecture means to him...