[Apr 14-18, 2021] Returning for its "9.5 Festival," the Architecture + Design Film Festival (A+DFF) in Winnipeg presents critically acclaimed films focusing on the importance of architecture and design in everyday life. The films cover a range of design-oriented topics from architecture and urban design to graphics and product design. The full festival, for its 10th anniversary, will return in 2022.

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Temporality and age are inherent in every object and creature and, depending on one’s outlook, may transcend to infinity. How can this be imagined? What goes beyond it? The filmmaker Christoph Schaub starts his personal journey through time and space in his childhood, when his fascination with sacred buildings began – and his wonder at beginnings and ends. Schaub explores, together with the architects Peter Zumthor, Peter Märkli and Álvaro Siza Vieira, the artists James Turrell and Cristina Iglesias and drummer virtuoso Jojo Mayer, the magic of sacred spaces, defined here as far more than church buildings. Directed by Christoph Schaub. Magnet Film.

City Dreamers is a film about our changing urban environment and four trailblazing women architects who have been working, observing and thinking about the transformations shaping the cities of today and tomorrow for over 70 years. The film is inspired by what has united these four women throughout their careers: the “dream” of a fundamentally human and inclusive city. Directed by Joseph Hillel. Couzen Films.

Design Canada is the first documentary chronicling the history of Canadian graphic design and how it shaped a nation and its people. What defines a national identity, is it an anthem? A flag? Is it a logo or icon? How do these elements shape who we are? In the 60s and 70s, these questions were answered by an innovative group of Canadian designers, who used design to unify the nation. Directed by Greg Durell.

From the iconic typeface of “The Godfather” book cover to Herman Miller’s Noguchi table, the influence of Japanese American artists and designers in postwar American art and design is unparalleled. While this second generation of Japanese American artists have been celebrated in various publications and exhibitions with their iconic work, less-discussed is how the World War II incarceration — a period of intense discrimination and hardship — has also had a powerful effect on the lives of artists such as Ruth Asawa, George Nakashima, Isamu Noguchi, S. Neil Fujita and Gyo Obata. Directed by Akira Boch. Artbound.

Jacques Tati’s gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in an age of high technology reached their apotheosis with PlayTime. For this monumental achievement, a nearly three-year-long, bank-breaking production, Tati again thrust the lovably old-fashioned Monsieur Hulot, along with a host of other lost souls, into a baffling modern world, this time Paris. With every inch of its superwide frame crammed with hilarity and inventiveness, PlayTime is a lasting record of a modern era tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion. Directed by Jacques Tati.

An existential film about how we construct and articulate stories about our homes. How do we construct homes in today's worldwide hotspots which are facing the challenges of climate change, globalization and migration? How do people create shelters and feel at home with others and in their bodies? Directed by Boris Bertram. Good Company Pictures.

Andrew Michael Geller (1924 – 2011) was an American architect, painter, and graphic designer. He is widely known for his uninhibited, sculptural beach houses in the coastal regions of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut during the 1950s and '60s. This is segment of the documentary Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island, directed by Jake Gorst. Produced by Jake Gorst and Tracey Rennie Gorst.

New York-based filmmaker Alexandra Liveris profiles Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, the man behind the World Trade Center Transportation Hub. Charites Films.

A classic film on the California architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, featuring Hollyhock House, Storer House, Ennis House, Honeycomb House, and Sturgess House.

The year of 2019 marks 20th anniversary of the passing of French designer Charlotte Perriand. From 2 October 2019 to 24 February 2020, Fondation Louis Vuitton holds an extensive exhibition of her interior and architectural works in order to pay tribute to the pioneer of modernity.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro has long been at the forefront of design. The interdisciplinary design firm, founded in 1979, first stirred interest with its provocative exhibitions of theoretically based projects that blurred the boundaries between art and architecture. Produced by Checkerboard Films.

Glenn Murcutt – Spirit of Place explores the life and work of Australia’s most famous living architect. Murcutt’s extraordinary international reputation rests on the beauty and integrity of his buildings. Directed by Catherine Hunter.

The first documentary retrospective of Harry Seidler’s architectural legacy, Harry Seidler: Modernist reveals an intimate portrait of his extraordinary life and internationally recognised work. Seidler is acclaimed as one of the greatest modernist architects. Seidler typified the practice of mid-century modernism in Australia more than any other. From the moment he arrived in Sydney his private homes were in demand and his uniquely stylised and innovatively engineered tower blocks came to dominate the skyline. Produced by Film Art Media.

As a young man. John Lautner broke with his mentor Frank Lloyd Wright, and went to California to forge his own unique style of architecture. His life was marked by innovation and inspiration, endless battles with building codes, an accidental leap into the epicentre of pop culture, bitterness of lost opportunities, and finally - monumental achievement. Produced by Concord Media.

[2010, 1hr 37m] Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924) was one of the most celebrated architects to come out of the Chicago School of architecture in the late 1800s. He is often called the "father of the skyscraper" and the "prophet of modern architecture." Sullivan also coined the most famous phrase ever to come out of his profession, "form ever follows function."This award-winning documentary is not simply the first film on Sullivan, but the first time a filmmaker has presented architecture in the broader context of American social, political and cultural history. His works that survive are recognized by architects and critics as among the most beautiful buildings in the world. Directed by Mark Richard Smith.

[26min, 18sec] Although best known for designing the homes of celebrities like Lucille Ball and Frank Sinatra, the pioneering African-American architect Paul Revere Williams also contributed to some of the city’s most recognizable civic structures — all while confronting racial barriers. In this episode, we visit LAX’s iconic Theme Building; a Williams-designed church; and the Pueblo del Rio public housing project archive. KCET.

Ray Kappe has long been a cult figure in the architectural scene in and around Los Angeles. In 1972, he founded the influential, avant garde Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-ARC), where many of the younger-generation architects have studied or taught.The film explores Kappe’s thinking behind his domestic work, beginning with a tour of the iconic hillside house he built for his family in 1967 in Pacific Palisades, and traces the trajectory of his career that led to his two heralded, sustainable, prefabricated houses designed for LivingHomes in 2006-2007. Produced by Checkerboard Films.

This is the first film to consider the work of the 1970s avant-garde architecture, graphic arts, and environmental design firm called Ant Farm, best known for its iconic land-art piece, Cadillac Ranch. Radical architects, video pioneers, and mordantly funny cultural commentators, the Ant Farmers created a body of deeply subversive multi-disciplinary work that questioned the boundaries of architecture and everything else in the process. Directed by Elizabeth Federici, Laura Harrison.

[2013, 20m 9s] "Surroundings" is a video series that tells the stories behind some of Metro Vancouver's well-known public places from the perspectives of the landscape architects who designed them. Episode 3 features Margot Long and focuses on the role landscape architects play in planning and urban design. In this episode, Margot Long takes us on a walking tour through SouthEast False Creek and Olympic Village to show us what it looks like when transforming industrial land into an urban village. Produced by Rain City Productions.

During his time spent in Southern California in the late 1910s and early 1920s, Frank Lloyd Wright accelerated the search for an authentic L.A. architecture that was suitable to the city's culture and landscape. Writer/Director Christopher Hawthorne, architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times, explores the houses the legendary architect built in Los Angeles. Directed by Christopher Hawthorne.

[1974, 1hr 20m] Architect, engineer, geometer, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome and the dymaxion car, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time, Fuller was renowned for his comprehensive perspective on the world's problems. For more than five decades he developed pioneering solutions reflecting his commitment to the potential of innovative design to "do more with less" and thereby improve human lives. Directed by Robert Snyder and Baylis Glascock.

Back in 2012, David Hockney filled the Royal Academy with vibrant, large-scale works of his native East Yorkshire, in a "A Bigger Picture." Four years later, Hockney gave us a snapshot of the LA art scene he’d returned to, with "82 Portraits and One Still-Life." Both shows were filmed to create this EXHIBITION ON SCREEN by Seventh Art Productions.

What is visual perception? James Turrell, the artist who, for over 40 years, has been creating artworks that test our notions of seeing, takes us on a journey through his immersive series of works. Produced by Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, VISUAL ACOUSTICS celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world's greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman captured the work of nearly every major modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Frank Gehry. Directed by Eric Bricker. Arthouse Films.

[2013, 2m 9s] Located on the Gulf Islands, Connell Cabin was designed by Architect Daniel Evan White and completed in 1973. Daniel Evan White produced a remarkably consistent oeuvre of iconic homes in British Columbia during a 50-year career. His unique interpretation of building form and landscape challenged the traditional images of house and home and their relationship to the natural environment.

[2018, 58m] The story of a building that changed the history of architecture. Its construction and subsequent reconstruction in two key moments of Barcelona immerse us in a reflection on the perception of art. Produced by The Circular Group.

Gawie Fagan is known as one of South Africa’s most celebrated architects, while he and wife Gwen, who is also his creative partner, are known for their seamless integration of built structures into the surrounding natural environment. Director Gavin Elder, known for his extensive documentation of synth-pop legends Duran Duran, captures the couple in their labyrinthine Camps Bay pad. Known locally as Die Es (The Hearth), the building sits neatly in the hillside surround and boasts panoramic views of the sea from one side and mountains to the other. Nowness in Residence Series. Directed by Gavin Elder.

The world-renowned Thai architect on concrete and animal kitsch. “You cannot bullshit with concrete,” says Bangkok-born Los-Angeles-based architect Kulapat Yantrasast. “You can see the seam, you can see the process of making in the product.” Bearing out this statement is his home in Venice Beach—a veritable homage to the modern material— with its open-to-the-elements aesthetic, replete with rooftop trampoline, viewing box and collection of dog figurines. Nowness in Residence Series. Directed by Emile Rafael.

A treetop tour of the American architect’s Californian abode. A modern masterpiece of glass and redwood, the home of architect Ray Kappe is often referenced as one of the greatest residences in Southern California. Designed as a family home some 50 years ago, chez Kappe is an exquisite tree house that sits amidst sycamore and eucalyptus on a hill in LA’s Rustic Canyon. Nowness in Residence Series. Directed by Matthew Donaldson.

[2020, 26m] An intimate portrait of the Canada Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, an architectural gem designed by Milan’s famous Studio BBPR and recently restored, along with its gardens, by the National Gallery of Canada.

As Fogo Island struggles to sustain its unique way of life in the face of a collapse of its fishing industry, architect Todd Saunders and social entrepreneur Zita Cobb's vision results in the building of strikingly original architecture that will become a catalyst for social change. Follow the construction Fogo Island Inn on a tiny island off eastern Newfoundland. Directed by Marcia Connelly & Katherine Knight. Produced by First Run Features.

[2013, 4m 2s] Taylor House is the short story of a West Vancouver home designed by Architect Daniel Evan White, completed in 1983. Daniel Evan White produced a remarkably consistent oeuvre of iconic homes in British Columbia during a 50-year career. His unique interpretation of building form and landscape challenged the traditional images of house and home and their relationship to the natural environment.

[2007, 56m] An icon of modern architecture, the Melnikov House designed by world-famous architect Konstantin Melnikov (1890-1974) tells the incredible story of how this utopian design from the late 1920's in Moscow imprisoned the fate of the architect when Joseph Stalin prohibited modern architecture from the Soviet Union. Hear the story of how Melnikov was denied his right to work as an architect and was in practise placed under house arrest in his own home. Directed by Rax Rinnekangas.

[2019, 2m 39s] The Dragon Skin Pavilion is a robotically fabricated temporary pavilion, installed at the University of British Columbia. The pavilion is the result of a workshop hosted by the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) and the Centre for Advanced Wood Processing (CAWP),which took place from October 5-9, 2019. The workshop was led by Assistant Professor David Correa of the University of Waterloo, Oliver David Krieg of Intelligent City, and SALA Associate Professor AnnaLisa Meyboom.

In 1961, three young, visionary architects were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to create Cuba's National Art Schools on the grounds of a former golf course in Havana, Cuba. Dancers, musicians and artists from all over the country reveled in the beauty of the schools, but as the dream of the Revolution quickly became a reality, construction was abruptly halted and the architects and their designs were deemed irrelevant in the prevailing political climate. Directed by Benjamin Murray and Alysa Nahmias.

Architects, not Architecture presents Daniel Libeskind, a US-American architect and urban planner of Polish-Jewish origin. He studied music in Israel and New York and also worked as a professional musician since he was a kind of child prodigy on the accordion. Later he opted for architecture and graduated from Cooper Union in New York and the University of Essex.

Architects, not Architecture presents Odile Decq. Odile set up her own office just after graduating at La Villette in 1978 while studying at Sciences Politiques Paris. In 1990 she won her first major commission: the Banque Populaire de l’Ouest in Rennes. By questioning the commission, the use, the matter, the body, the technique and the taste Odile Decq’s architecture offers a paradoxical look, both tender and severe on today’s world.

Architects, not Architecture presents Todd Saunders, a Canadian architect who founded the studio Saunders Architecture based in Bergen, Norway, in 1998. The award-winning firm has completed cultural and residential projects around the world, with a bold modern aesthetic that combines a strong sense of place with an emphasis on craftsmanship and meticulous detailing.

Alex Morrison was born in Redruth, UK and currently lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. Subcultures, activism, rebellion, the history of domestic architecture, civic spaces and avant-garde aesthetics have been persistent themes in his work for over a decade. Alex Morrison in conversation about his recent works with photographer Christos Dikeakos. Capture Photography Festival at Inform Interiors.

[2020, 50m] UBC SALA Associate Professor Daniel Roehr speaks to the University of Guelph School of Environmental Design and Rural Development for their Digital Design Lecture Series. Associate Professor Daniel Roehr teaches Landscape Architecture at the UBC. His research has focused for nearly three decades on international living roof design, construction, and specifically on low impact development (LID) as part of holistic stormwater management. He is director of greenskinslab. Since 2013 he has been exploring to visualize the complexity of LID with animated hand drawn videos on tablets, to make LID accessible and acceptable to the public and also co-developed a LID calculator. In the last years Daniel’s research has expanded how to teach multi-sensorial literacy and design, and his second book (a text book) Sense…ible Design: Interacting with the Landscape for Designers will be published in 2021 by Routledge. Presented by the University of Guelph School of Environmental Design and Rural Development.

The Friedman House is a modernist icon, designed by Frederic Lasserre, founder of the UBC School of Architecture, and landscaped by Cornelia Oberlander. Faced with demolition, it was saved by purchasers who understood its architectural value and historical significance. UBC SALA West Coast Modern House Series. Hosted by Inform Interiors.

Canadian makeup and mixed media artist Lyle Reimer has over 150,000 Instagram followers who visit his account @Lylexox to experience the fantasy and undeniable creativity of his self-portrait personas, which fuse facial sculpture, makeup, and found objects, accompanied by hilarious fictional backstories. Lyle XOX is conversation with Nancy Bendtsen at Inform Interiors.

In the talk, which took place at the 2015 reSITE conference, Sorkin highlighted problems of the idealistic representations of future urban plans."We have a tendency to look at representations of new cities and quarters as a kind of pornography, the gaze that maligns and entraps," Sorkin said. "For many years, these representations have often come in a protective, dystopian wrapper, reinforcing the idea that the visionary is ipso facto evil." 2015 reSITE Conference. Rebroadcast for the Virtual Design Festival.

Peter Cook's talk at the World Architecture Festival 2019 in Amsterdam. Sir Peter Cook RA is an English architect, lecturer and writer on architectural subjects. He was a founder of Archigram, and was knighted in 2007 by the Queen for his services to architecture and teaching.

[NOV 6, 2020 @ 6:00pm PST] Lanefab is an integrated design/build company that crafts custom homes and infill mini-homes (or “laneway houses”) with design quality & energy efficiency as core values. Bryn is a graduate of UBC SALA in architecture. In his talk he will focus on his efforts to promote affordable housing solutions for the homeless, solutions that foster independent living and safety for small groups of the homeless. Presented by UBC SALA.

Greg Girard in conversation with LOUISA LIM and SAMPSON WONG. From afar, it would appear that Hong Kong qualifies as a city poised to fall, not in one fell swoop, but gradually, as Beijing methodically introduces measures to remove or degrade the personal rights and freedoms long enjoyed in the territory. With the arrests of pro-democracy activists and a sweeping new national security law, we appear to be witnessing the slow death of a once open society, a once great city. Presented by UBC SALA.

Architect Bruno Freschi speaks at Sam Sullivan's Public Salon on February 19, 2014 in Vancouver BC. Presented by Scotiabank and Global Civic Policy Society.

[2018, 1h 28m] Simon came to Canada from Britain in the mid 1960s as a recent graduate architect. He soon joined the firm Arthur Erickson Architects. Then in the early 1970s he spent two years in Rome working on the photography and design of the book “In Italy” with the late Rollof Beny. On Simon’s return to Vancouver he photographed for, and designed, the book “The Architecture of Arthur Erickson” for which he was awarded the “American Institute of Graphic Arts” prize. He then formed his own practice of “architectural photograph and presentation.” He retained Arthur Erickson as a long term client as well as working with many other architectural and development offices. His work has been widely published. Simon met Erickson in 1965 and was with him two days before he died. For several years he has been director of the “Arthur Erickson Foundation.” Presented by the London Society of Architects.

[2020, 1hr 20m] On February 27, 2020 the West Coast Modern League presented the Canadian debut of the Iconic Houses Lecture Tour in Vancouver, featuring Pavel Kuznetsov and Moscow’s architectural avant-garde Melnikov House. Pavel Kuznetsov, Director of the Konstantin and Viktor Melnikov State Museum and Deputy Director of the Schusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow, discussed the history of Moscow’s Melnikov House, an icon of 20th century Russian architecture, and the tragic life of the architect Konstantin Melnikov in a collectivist society. Hosted by Inform Interiors.

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