Architectures
1996 ★ 9.5 1 Season FR
Documentary
An ongoing series of films devoted to the most remarkable achievements in modern architecture, from the works that heralded the birth of the modern style at the end of the 19th century to the latest …
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The Villa Dall'Ava
Ep 1 1996-09-19
The Villa Dall'Ava
Rem Koolhaas built a unique villa on the heights of Saint-Cloud.
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Nemausus 1
Ep 2 1996-09-26
Nemausus 1
In Nîmes, Jean Nouvel conceived a block of tenement houses reminiscent of a cruise liner. …
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The Iron House
Ep 3 1996-10-03
The Iron House
In late 19th century Brussels, the Art Nouveau movement was laying the foundations of a …
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Charlety, a Stadium in the City
Ep 4 1996-10-10
Charlety, a Stadium in the City
Bruno and Henri Gaudin have broken with the classic design of a closed stadium, and …
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Pierrefonds, the Architect's Castle
Ep 5 1996-10-17
Pierrefonds, the Architect's Castle
Middle Aged castle rebuilt by Viollet Le Duc for the Emperor Napoleon III. A reconstruction …
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The Vienna Savings Bank
Ep 6 1998-07-02
The Vienna Savings Bank
At the turn of the last century, Otto Wagner designed one of the first 20th …
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The Georges Pompidou Centre
Ep 7 1998-07-23
The Georges Pompidou Centre
A giant meccano-like structure designed by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, a museum-factory that has …
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Family Lodging in Guise
Ep 8 1998-08-13
Family Lodging in Guise
The philanthropist company boss Andre Godin built a workers' housing estate with a palatial air. …
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A House in Bordeaux
Ep 9 1998-08-27
A House in Bordeaux
Designed by the architect Rem Koolhaas for a couple whose husband became disabled following a …
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The Dessau Bauhaus
Ep 10 2001-03-03
The Dessau Bauhaus
Walter Gropius' main achievement is the buildings of the Bauhaus, built in 1926. His pioneering …
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Satolas - TGV
Ep 11 2001-03-10
Satolas - TGV
An astonishing concrete and steel structure designed for an open field in the Lyon countryside. …
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The Johnson Building
Ep 12 2001-03-17
The Johnson Building
These famous office buildings were designed and built between 1936 and 1939 for the wax …
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The Paris Fine Art School
Ep 13 2001-03-24
The Paris Fine Art School
In the heart of Paris, architect Duban's 'École des Beaux-Arts' provides its students with an …
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The Siza School
Ep 14 2001-04-14
The Siza School
The Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza built Porto's Faculty of Architecture, a mediation on space and …
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The Stone Thermal Baths
Ep 15 2001-04-21
The Stone Thermal Baths
The Spa of Vals-les-Bains, designed by Peter Zumthor, redefines the very concept of public bathing, …
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The Galleria Umberto I
Ep 16 2001-05-19
The Galleria Umberto I
Built in Naples, this is one of the last and largest covered passageways to be …
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The Saint Pancras Station
Ep 17 2001-06-02
The Saint Pancras Station
In the 19th century in London, the Midland Company had Saint Pancras and a luxury …
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The Wind Box
Ep 18 2001-06-09
The Wind Box
The Fort de France Education Authority is the only example of a contemporary architectural building …
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The Garnier Opera
Ep 19 2001-06-16
The Garnier Opera
The Garnier Opera by Charles Garnier This is Paris's most prestigious 19th century building, the …
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The Jewish Museum Berlin
Ep 20 2003-07-05
The Jewish Museum Berlin
The Jewish Museum in Berlin, by Daniel Libeskind, tackles the emptiness left by the extermination …
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The Convent of La Tourette
Ep 21 2003-07-26
The Convent of La Tourette
With the Convent of La Tourette, commissioned by the Dominicans of Lyons, Le Courbusier was …
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The Auditorium Building in Chicago
Ep 22 2003-09-06
The Auditorium Building in Chicago
At the end of the 19th century, Louis Henry Sullivan, the father of American architecture, …
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The Municipal Center of Säynätsalo
Ep 23 2003-09-13
The Municipal Center of Säynätsalo
Built in 1952 by Alvaar Alto, this town hall building lies in the heart of …
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The Casa Milá
Ep 24 2003-09-20
The Casa Milá
A block of flats in Barcelona, the Casa Milà is an extraordinarily sculpted work created …
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The Glass House
Ep 25 2005-02-26
The Glass House
In 1928, Pierre Chareau built the poetic and remarkable Maison de Verre, one of the …
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The Abbey Church of Saint Foy at Conques
Ep 26 2005-03-05
The Abbey Church of Saint Foy at Conques
Built in 1050, the Abbey is one of the foremost pilgrim churches of the Christian …
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The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
Ep 27 2005-03-19
The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
Known for his strange and deconstructed forms, Frank Gehry designed this monumental, but chaotic and …
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The Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
Ep 28 2005-04-02
The Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
The visionary architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, one of the earliest exponents of French Neoclassical design, …
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Jean Prouvé's House
Ep 29 2005-04-30
Jean Prouvé's House
In 1953, while going through his worst life-crisis, French designer Jean Prouvé built "his" house. …
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The Multimedia Library of Sendai
Ep 30 2005-05-14
The Multimedia Library of Sendai
A glass cube, built in 2001 by Toyo Ito, this library provides an example of …
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The Alhambra, Grenade
Ep 31 2007-03-11
The Alhambra, Grenade
Worried that their dynasty would disappear, the Nasrid sultans built this Red Castle in a …
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Phaeno, Building as Landscape
Ep 32 2007-03-18
Phaeno, Building as Landscape
The sculptural power of the science center in Wolfsberg, Germany, in which the plan is …
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The House of Sugimoto
Ep 33 2007-04-01
The House of Sugimoto
Built in Kyoto in 1743, this traditional Japanese architectural masterpiece portrays a different understanding of …
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The Reception and Congress Building in Rome
Ep 34 2007-04-15
The Reception and Congress Building in Rome
In the most ambitious of the Mussolini regime's buildings, the leader of Italy's modern movement …
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The Yoyogo Olympic Gymnasiums
Ep 35 2007-05-20
The Yoyogo Olympic Gymnasiums
For the 1964 summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Kenzo Tange designed two concrete gymnasiums which …
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The Villa Barbaro
Ep 36 2007-06-17
The Villa Barbaro
By inventing the villa, a new type of housing, in 1550, Palladio sought to combine …
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The Royal Mosque at Isfahan
Ep 37 2009-02-11
The Royal Mosque at Isfahan
In 1598, King Abbas planned an immense urban project. His royal mosque captured his unprecedented …
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The Menier Chocolate Factory
Ep 38 2009-09-13
The Menier Chocolate Factory
The Menier factory at Noisiel, outside Paris, was the largest chocolate factory in the world …
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The Pyramid of Pharoah Djoser at Saqqara
Ep 39 2009-09-20
The Pyramid of Pharoah Djoser at Saqqara
The Djoser pyramid, the work of legendary architect Imhotep, is the oldest in Egypt, and …
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The German Pavilion in Barcelona
Ep 40 2009-09-27
The German Pavilion in Barcelona
How and why did this minimalist structure end up embodying 20th century modernity? Between rigor …
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The SAS Royal Hotel
Ep 41 2009-10-11
The SAS Royal Hotel
The SAS Royal Hotel tower marked Denmark's entry into post-war modernity. It is a major …
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Roissy 1
Ep 42 2009-10-25
Roissy 1
Opened in 1974, Roissy 1 was the first time architecture had entered the realm of …
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The Maisons Castle
Ep 43 2009-11-15
The Maisons Castle
Although its posterity has now rendered its image commonplace, the Maisons Laffitte Chateau revolutionized French …
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The Luxembourg Philharmonic
Ep 44 2009-12-06
The Luxembourg Philharmonic
The elliptical shaped Philharmonic, with its filter of white columns and colorful cliffs, houses the …
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VitraHaus
Ep 45 2011-10-02
VitraHaus
In 2006, the company Vitra asked the "Herzog & de Meuron" agency to create a …
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The Igualada Cemetery
Ep 46 2011-10-09
The Igualada Cemetery
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The Citadel de Lille
Ep 47 2011-10-16
The Citadel de Lille
Vauban's "Queen of the citadels" was the model for military construction all over France. Built …
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The Sainte-Geneviève Library
Ep 48 2011-10-30
The Sainte-Geneviève Library
Breaking away from the 19th century neoclassical trend, Henri Labrouste erected a powerful public building …
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The Church of Notre-Dame du Raincy
Ep 49 2011-11-13
The Church of Notre-Dame du Raincy
In a country ruined by World War I, Auguste Perret took up the challenge of …
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Ewha, the Seoul Hidden University
Ep 50 2011-12-04
Ewha, the Seoul Hidden University
With this building, Dominique Perrault continues a concept that is dear to him, the absence …
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The Rolex Learning Center
Ep 51 2013-05-05
The Rolex Learning Center
Poised on the shore of Lake Geneva, a wave of cement and glass has inspired …
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The National Dance Center
Ep 52 2013-05-19
The National Dance Center
The mutation of a concrete mastodon, the Pantin Administrative Center (1969) into the French National …
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The Cologne Cathedral
Ep 53 2013-05-26
The Cologne Cathedral
Started in 1247, the Cologne Cathedral was completed in 1880 after a 300 year break …
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The Citadel of Leisure, the Pompeia Social Service Center
Ep 54 2013-06-23
The Citadel of Leisure, the Pompeia Social Service Center
In the Palmeiras district of São Paulo, early 20th century former factory workshops are aligned …
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The Hotels de Soubise and de Rohan
Ep 55 2013-07-07
The Hotels de Soubise and de Rohan
From 1705 to 1752, the house of the Princes of Soubise was the setting for …
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The French Communist Party Headquarters
Ep 56 2015-08-30
The French Communist Party Headquarters
A mysterious white dome and an undulating glass facade, the headquarters of the French Communist …
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The Unal House
Ep 57 2015-09-06
The Unal House
Designed by Claude Hausermann-Costy, and built by Joel Unal between 1972 and 2008, it's a …
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The Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam
Ep 58 2015-09-13
The Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam
A cross between Taylorism and Bauhaus, the Van Nelle factory at Rotterdam was built between …
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The Glass Galleon
Ep 59 2015-09-20
The Glass Galleon
On the fringes of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, a grand galleon with 12 …
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Itimad-ud-Daulah, the Mughal Mausoleum
Ep 60 2015-10-04
Itimad-ud-Daulah, the Mughal Mausoleum
The mausoleum of Itimad-ud-Daulah, built of white marble encrusted with semi-precious stones, in Agra the …
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The Home for All at Rikuzentakata
Ep 61 2015-10-11
The Home for All at Rikuzentakata
After Japan's 2011 tsunami, a group of architects led by Toyo Ito launched the "Home …
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The Wa Shan Guesthouse
Ep 62 2015-10-18
The Wa Shan Guesthouse
The Wa Shan, literally "Tile Mountain", is an astonishing guesthouse, built by Chinese architect Wang …
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The Glasgow School of Art
Ep 63 2015-10-25
The Glasgow School of Art
Built at the dawn of the 20th century by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the Glasgow School …
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The Sante, a Prison in Paris
Ep 64 2017-10-08
The Sante, a Prison in Paris
La Sante prison (1861-1867) is a unique and impressive work of architecture. At the cutting …
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The Bamboo School of Bali
Ep 65 2017-10-15
The Bamboo School of Bali
An astonishing structure in which three cones flow together into one roof that protects a …
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Médiacité - a Designer Mall
Ep 66 2017-10-22
Médiacité - a Designer Mall
Seen from the sky, a long stained-glass window structures the commercial center. At Médiacité, the …
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The Phillips Exeter Academy Library
Ep 67 2017-10-29
The Phillips Exeter Academy Library
A masterpiece of geometry and of architectural precision, the library is one of Lous Kahn's …
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First Air Date
1996-09-19
Last Air Date
2017-10-29
Status
Returning Series
Language
FR
Seasons
1
Total Episodes
67
Episode Runtime
26 min
Rating
9.5 / 10
Votes
2
Network
ARTE, Les Films d'Ici, Musée d'Orsay
Studio
Les Films d'Ici
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