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6:15Eames: The Architect and the Painter

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BIG TIMEwith Midtown: A Blueprint for Better

6:30The Oyler House: Richard Neutra’s

Desert Retreat and Windshield: A Vanished Vision



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with Cabin at the River

12:15Building Hope: The Maggie’s Centres

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World’s Fair? with The Future of Cities

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SPONSORSThe Architecture & Design Film Festival: D.C. is presented by the Revada Foundation, courtesy of the estates of Reva and David Logan.

Film Festival LoungeRelax between screenings in the Film Festival Lounge, with furniture from the Herman Miller showroom. Chat with your fellow festival-goers about the movie you just watched, while enjoying the Museum’s Great Hall in a mid-century modern setting.

Sony Home Theater SystemIn the Festival Lounge enjoy a selection of short films, curated by ADFF and displayed with a home theater projector donated by Sony.

Virtual Reality ExperienceExperience new short documentaries from Scenic, a Brooklyn-based virtual reality studio focusing on nonfiction VR.

This Is What the Future Looked LikeDirector: Sam Green & Gary Hustwit 2017 / 7 min / USAThis Is What the Future Looked Like explores the philosophies and work of futurist architect Buckminster Fuller. The piece features stunning 360° views of Fuller’s geodesic domes that are only possible with VR, an archival voiceover by Fuller, and an original score by the band Yo La Tengo.

Inside the Biennale: Toward VeniceProducer: Artsy and Scenic, in collaboration with UBS 2017 / 6 min / USAWhat does it mean to participate in the world’s most influential art exhibition? For both artists and curators, it’s a chance to bring boundary-pushing work to the eyes of the international art world, and make history as part of a 112-year old tradition. Insiders like Massimiliano Gioni, Carol Bove, and Christian Marclay guide us towards the 2017 Venice Biennale, and give first-hand impressions of the city, all in 360°.

Great Hall TheaterWatch feature length films on a 16 foot tall screen nestled between the Museum’s massive Corinthian columns. Donated by Sony, the theater is set up with projection bright enough to see during the day light and utilizes wireless headsets for perfect, personalized acoustics while sitting in the Great Hall.

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BIG TIMEDirector: Kaspar Astrup Schröder2017 / 93 min / Denmark

Architect Bjarke Ingels made a name for himself and for his design firm BIG in his native Denmark, winning international acclaim for his bold, untraditional designs. Director Kaspar Astrup Schröder follows Ingels over six years as he takes on his largest project yet, relocating to New York City to create VIA 57 and then getting the commission for the new 2 World Trade Center. How will the maverick genius balance his professional ambition and personal life when given the chance to change the city’s iconic skyline?

Building Hope: The Maggie’s CentresDirector: Sarah Howitt 2016 / 59 min / UK

This is the fascinating story of Maggie’s, a unique cancer charity. In 1993, Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with terminal cancer and was told she had three months to live. On hearing this devastating news she was left to sit on a plastic chair in a hospital corridor. The only place she could find to cry was a bathroom stall. Her husband and co-founder Charles Jencks, said, “I think that initial shock was certainly the moment when Maggie thought we can do better than this. You don’t have to suffer in a corridor on death row having just been told that you are going to die. That was the moment architecture and medicine met in our minds.”

In the last year of her life, Maggie spent her time working on an idea for a cancer center which she hoped would change the lives of other cancer sufferers. Since her death the most prominent names in architecture from Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry and others have designed astonishing landmark buildings bearing her name.

Cabin at the RiverDirector: Silvia Zeitlinger2017 / 8 min / Italy The architect Robby Cantarutti, as a boy, is imagining his house and his life while sitting on a river throwing stones in the water. Foreseeing his future life with his wife and children he fills the empty rooms of his house with vivified joy, creativity and happiness. Dream and life are intertwined and reality is flowing past like the water of the river.

Citizen Jane: Battle for the CityDirector: Matt Tyrnauer 2016 / 92 min / USA

The film highlights Jane Jacobs’ magisterial 1961 treatise The Death and Life of Great American Cities, in which she single-handedly undercuts her era’s orthodox model of city planning, exemplified by the massive Urban Renewal projects of New York’s “Master Builder,” Robert Moses. Jacobs and Moses figure as two larger-than-life personalities: Jacobs, a journalist with provincial origins, no formal training in city planning, and scarce institutional authority seems at first glance to share little in common with Moses, a high prince of government and urban theory fully ensconced in New York’s halls of power and privilege. Yet both reveal themselves to be master tacticians who, in the middle of the 20th century, became locked in an epic struggle over the fate of the city. In three suspenseful acts, Citizen Jane: Battle for the City gives audiences a front row seat to this battle, and shows how two opposing visions of urban greatness continue to ripple across the world stage, with unexpectedly high stakes.

Columbus Director: Kogonada 2017 / 104 min / USA / FictionWith its naturalistic rhythms, its focus on architecture and empathy for the complexities of families, debut director Kogonada’s Columbus unfolds as a gently drifting, deeply absorbing conversation. With strong supporting turns from Parker Posey, Rory Culkin, and Michelle Forbes, Columbus is also a showcase for the director’s striking eye for the way physical space can affect emotions.

When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin (John Cho) finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana—a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey (Haley Lu Richardson), a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local library. As their intimacy develops, Jin and Casey explore both the town and their conflicted emotions: Jin’s estranged relationship with his father, and Casey’s reluctance to leave Columbus and her mother.

Community by Design: Skid Row Housing TrustDirector: Myles Kramer2017 / 4 min / USA Los Angeles has the highest number of unsheltered people in the country. The Skid Row Housing Trust in downtown Los Angeles provides both housing for the homeless and innovative solutions to keep them off the streets. In 1989 the Trust began restoring and preserving single room occupancy housing in the downtown area. Currently, the Trust focuses on new construction projects while collaborating with renowned architects, like Michael Maltzan Architecture and Brooks + Scarpa. The portfolio of buildings that the Trust owns is steadily expanding, using a model that can be replicated in any city.

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DriesDirector: Reiner Holzemer2017 / 90 min / Belgium & Germany

For the first time fashion designer Dries Van Noten allows a filmmaker to accompany him in his creative process and rich home life. For an entire year Reiner Holzemer documents the precise steps that Dries takes to conceive of four collections —the rich fabrics, embroidery and prints exclusive to his designs, as well as the emblematic fashion shows that bring his collections to the world and have become cult must-sees at Paris Fashion Week.

This film offers an insight into the life, mind and creative heart of a master fashion designer who, for more than 25 years, has remained independent in a landscape of fashion consolidation and globalization. The film features original music by Colin Greenwood of Radiohead, Matthew Herbert, and Sam Petts-Davies.

Eames: The Architect and the PainterDirector: Jason Cohn & Bill Jersey 2011 / 84 min / Ireland & USA

From 1941 to 1978, the husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames brought unique talents to their partnership. He was an architect by training; she was a painter and sculptor. Together they are considered America’s most important and influential designers, whose work helped shape the second half of the 20th century and remains culturally vital and commercially popular today.

Eames: The Architect and the Painter, insightfully narrated by James Franco, is the first film to be made about Charles and Ray since their deaths—and the only one that peers deeply inside the link between their artistic collaboration and sometimes tortured love for one another. Despite their unrivaled impact on American design, the personas of the steadfastly private Charles and Ray have remained oblique beyond the giddy publicity photos they doled out to inquiring journalists while they were alive.

The Experimental City Director: Chad Freidrichs2017 / 95 min / USA

In the 1960s, frustrated by the growing problem of urban pollution, Athelstan Spilhaus, a visionary scientist and futurist comic strip writer, assembled a team of experts to develop a bold experiment: the Minnesota Experimental City (MXC). MXC would be the city of the future, a domed metropolis for 250,000 pioneering residents, built from scratch and using cutting-edge technology to prevent urban sprawl and pollution. Things didn’t quite go as planned, as explored in Chad Friedrichs’ fascinating look back at the would-be city of tomorrow.

Face of a Nation: What Happened to the World’s Fair?Director: Mina Chow2017 / 57 min / USA

Daughter of immigrants, an idealistic architect struggles to keep her dream alive as she journeys to discover why America abandoned World’s Fairs. For generations of Americans, World’s Fairs captured visions of hope for the future as part of their collective memory. Mina Chow became fascinated with World’s Fairs when she saw pictures of her parents at the 1964 New York World’s Fair. Beginning with their stories, Mina shares this legacy and the American values that inspired her to become an architect. She is excited to go to the first World’s Fair in China. With over 73 million visitors, the Shanghai World Expo breaks all attendance records for any event in human history. But what she discovers there not only destroys her confidence as an American architect; it is symptomatic of a country that has lost its way. With her dream destroyed, Mina begins a search for answers: to find out what happened to the vision of World’s Fairs, and what happened to America.

The Future of CitiesDirector: Oscar Boyson2016 / 18 min / USA

What does “the future of cities” mean? For most of the developing world, it might be as simple as aspiring to having your own toilet, rather than sharing one with over 100 people. For a family in Detroit, it could mean having non-toxic drinking water. For planners and mayors, it’s about a lot of things — sustainability, economy, inclusivity, and resilience. Most of us can hope that future involves spending a little less time on our commutes to work and a little more time with our families. Oscar Boyson asked people around the world to participate in documenting city innovations around the world. Folks of all ages, from over 75 countries, volunteered their time, thoughts, work, and footage.

The Gamble HouseDirector: Don Hahn2017 / 58 min / USA

The Gamble House is the incredible story of brothers Charles and Henry Greene who were pushed by their forceful father into a career in architecture only to design and build the most seminal and stunning Arts & Crafts house in America. The house, however, did not come without its price, both personally and professionally, for the Greene brothers, and for David and Mary Gamble who commissioned it. It is a tale of American craftsmanship, international influence, artistic frustration, loss and triumph, which led to the completion of one of the shining examples of American architecture, known to fans of Back to the Future as Doc Brown’s house, and fans of architecture simply as The Gamble House.

Ford HouseDirector: Spirit of Space2017 / 5 min / USA This film about the Ford House in Aurora, Illinois, designed by Bruce Goff, was created for the installation Past Forward: Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Getting Frank GehryDirector: Sally Aitken 2015 / 59 min / Australia

The University of Technology, Sydney’s new business school, is Frank Gehry’s daring “Treehouse project,” otherwise known as the “crumpled brown paper bag” to its critics. At first sight, the school will almost certainly shock anyone not already familiar with Gehry’s work elsewhere around the world. The film follows the drama as Gehry’s vision for this commission is realized. Through the construction of this building, we examine his challenging work over a period of 40 years. Four key phases of creativity, epitomized by four great buildings—The Gehry House, The Vitra Museum, The Guggenheim Bilbao and MIT’s Stata Centre—chart the evolution of ideas over a lifetime of controversy to play out on the downtown Sydney construction site.

Glenn Murcutt: Spirit of Place Director: Catherine Hunter2017 / 59 min / Australia

Glenn Murcutt: Spirit of Place explores the life and art of Australia’s most famous living architect. With a bevy of international awards, including the prestigious Pritzker Prize, Murcutt has put Australian architecture on the map. Yet, by choice, he has never built outside his own country. Murcutt’s focus instead has been the creation of energy-efficient masterpieces perfectly suited to their environment, and his breakthrough designs have influenced architects around the world. This documentary follows Glenn Murcutt, now 80 years old, as he designs his most ambitious project to date—a mosque for an Islamic community in Melbourne.

If You Build It Director: Patrick Creadon 2012 / 77 min / USA

From the director of Wordplay and I.O.U.S.A. comes a captivating look at a radically innovative approach to education. If You Build It follows designer-activists Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller to rural Bertie County, the poorest county in North Carolina, where they work with local high school students to transform both their community and their lives. Living on credit and grant money and fighting a change-resistant school board, Pilloton and Miller lead their students through a year-long design and build project that does much more than just teach basic construction skills; it shows thirteen teenagers the power of design-thinking to re-invent not just their town, but their own sense of what’s possible.

Integral ManDirector: Joseph Clement2016 / 62 min / Canada

After Euclid, Toronto’s Jim Stewart is the most published mathematician in the world. Stewart spent a decade and a small fortune building the home of his dreams to reflect his two obsessions: curves and music. The completed home, called Integral House, provides him with both. A stunning architectural gem of subtly curved wood and vast, evocative spaces, the house stands in Toronto’s Rosedale neighborhood and is considered one of the city’s best performance spaces. Stewart took joy in hosting his trademark musical evenings with world-class guests, including the likes of Grammy-nominated Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman, featured in the film. This debut film by landscape designer and artist Joseph Clement is an impressive work of art with its masterful combination of beautiful soundscapes and gorgeous architectural details. It ultimately delivers a finely crafted portrait of Stewart and his beloved home.

Kevin Roche: The Quiet ArchitectDirector: Mark Noonan2017 / 81 min / Ireland Still working at age 95, Pritzker Prize-winning, Irish-American architect Kevin Roche is an enigma. He’s reached the top of his profession, but has little interest in celebrity and eschews the label “starchitect.” Despite a lifetime of acclaimed work that includes the Ford Foundation, Oakland Museum of California, and 40 years designing new galleries for The Metropolitan Museum in New York, he has no intention of ever retiring and keeps looking forward. Roche’s architectural philosophy focuses on creating “a community for a modern society” and he has been credited with creating green buildings before they became part of the public consciousness.

A Letter to MarcelDirector: Jake Farmer2016 / 3 min / USA In 1953 Robert Snower wrote to Marcel Breuer to ask if he would be interested in designing a home for his family in Kansas City. Breuer and his team spent the next year working with Mr. Snower to customize every element of the home. It was completed in 1954 and is one of only two houses Breuer constructed west of the Mississippi River. Over 60 years later the home has been restored to its original condition. This is the story of its creation.

Made in IlimaDirector: Thatcher Bean2017 / 65 min / USAIn the center of Equator Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Ilima community remains one of the most isolated in the world. The people have coexisted with endangered wildlife in the surrounding forest for generations, but as the pace of development has increased, this fragile ecosystem has suffered.

They partnered with the African Wildlife Foundation and MASS Design Group in 2012 to create a new conservation-focused primary school and community center. This film documents the collective building process—one aimed at leveraging local craft and ecological knowledge towards education, preservation, and beauty.

Midtown: A Blueprint for Better2017 / 4 min / USADuvall Decker has helped bring about positive changes in Midtown, a neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi.


The Oyler House: Richard Neutra’s Desert Retreat Director: Mike Dorsey 2012 / 46 min / USA In 1959, a working-class government employee in the tiny desert town of Lone Pine, California, asked world-famous modern architect Richard Neutra to design his modest family home. To his surprise, Neutra agreed. Thus began an unlikely friendship that would last for the rest of Neutra’s life. The Oyler House: Richard Neutra’s Desert Retreat tells the story of this house and its stunning desert setting, through interviews with Richard Oyler, actress Kelly Lynch, who currently owns the house, Neutra’s two sons, and well-known LA real estate agent Crosby Doe.

PiscesDirector: Brad Deal2017 / 3 min / USAPisces, from Greek mythology, takes the form of two fish connected by a cord that allows them to help others and ensures that they don’t lose one another. Pisces and its myths are the framework for the Louisiana Tech School of Design’s 2017 design/build project. A bridge that provides a much needed connection between the two sides of a summer camp for children with special needs also creates a variety of opportunities for one of their favorite camp activities, fishing.

This short film by Brad Deal, architect and director of the ARCH 335 design/build studio at Louisiana Tech, provides a glimpse of the connections formed between three students and three camper’s families over the course of the project.


REMDirector: Tomas Koolhaas2016 / 75 min / USA

REM, the documentary by Rem Koolhaas’s son, explores the architect’s life, working methods, philosophy, and internal landscape, from a never seen perspective of intimacy and immediacy. This point of view allows the viewer to understand Rem’s ideas in a way they couldn’t otherwise. These ideas are not merely explained as intellectual concepts but also in practice—the reality on the ground, fruition in concrete and metal. The film shows how these structures, some massive and some small, all over the world, affect every aspect of the lives of the people that built them, use them, and live inside them.

This Was Not My DreamDirector: Gabriel Kogan & Pedro Kok2016 / 5 min / Brazil “Suzana only thinks of the house, she is in love with it.” Suzana’s ex-husband cannot get it out of his mind that the new house—conceived by them both—meant the end of his marriage. The ex-husband’s jealous looks are meant for nobody else other than the straight and modern lines, “cold, tedious and without life.” While images pass through the architecture he distills his fear of the construction and elaborates about the new life that Suzana will be enjoying at that place. “Where is Suzana now?” She couldn’t be in any other place except that house, where Suzana’s love is so transparent.

Windshield: A Vanished Vision Director: Elissa Brown 2016 / 46 min / USA

Windshield: A Vanished Vision reveals an intimate portrait of a 1930s patrician couple, a leading modern architect, and the story of the ill-fated house they create. John Nicholas Brown’s fascination with modernism, spurs him to commission what he hopes will be a “distinguished monument in the history of architecture.” Brown and his wife Anne, herself a daring and eccentric figure, select the young and ambitious Richard Neutra to build them a house that they name “Windshield.” Through an enormously detailed correspondence, patron and architect discuss every detail of the house’s design and together pursue cutting-edge technology, much of which had only previously been used in commercial architecture. Then, just weeks after the Browns move in, tragedy strikes. Visually supported by voices of architectural historians such as Thomas S. Hines and Dietrich Neumann.

WorkplaceDirector: Gary Hustwit2016 / 66 min / USA

Workplace is a documentary about the past, present, and future of the office. Hundreds of millions of human beings spend billions of hours in offices every day. How can we make them better places for people to work and collaborate? What’s the next wave of digital tools to connect the office, the city, and the planet? How has the office evolved over the last 100 years? And do we even need offices anymore? Filmmaker Gary Hustwit (Helvetica, Objectified, Urbanized) follows the design and construction of the New York headquarters of R/GA, where the company and architects Foster + Partners explore the intersection of digital and physical space. Workplace is a look at the thinking and experimentation involved in trying to create the next evolution of what the office could be. The film features appearanes by Bob Greenberg, Norman Foster, Nick Law, Barry Wacksman, Chris West, Julia Goldberg, Primo Orpilla, Nikil Saval, Amanda Carroll, and more.

Writers TheatreDirector: Spirit of Space2016 / 3 min / USA Studio Gang’s design for the Writers Theatre in Glencoe, Illinois is intended to maximize the theater’s potential to bring people together, creating an architecture that energizes the daily life of its community and becomes an exciting, region-wide cultural destination.

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