The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century

2003 / 58 min. / color
Directed by Michael Blackwood
Featuring: Stan Allen, Wiel Arets, Michael Bell, Andrew Benjamin, Jennifer Bloomer, Karl Chu, Nigel Coates, Beatriz Colomina, Peter Cook, James Corner, Yolande Daniels, Kathryn Dean , Odile Decq, Elizabeth Diller, Evan Douglis, Peter Eisenman , Colin Fournier, Kenneth Frampton, Leslie Gill, Christian Girard, Elizabeth Grosz, Zaha Hadid, Laurie Hawkinson, Michael Hays, Steven Holl, Catherine Ingraham, Ed Keller, Jeffrey Kipnis, Sulan Kolatan, Sanford Kwinter, Sylvia Lavin, Fred Levrat, Greg Lynn, Winy Maas, Scott Marble, Reinhold Martin, Thom Mayne, Mary McLeod, Detlef Mertins, Victoria Meyers, Toshiko Mori, Farshid Moussavi, Enrique Norten, Joan Ockman, Gregg Pasquarelli, Wolf Prix, Mark Rakatansky, Hani Rashid, Jesse Reiser, Terence Riley, Yehuda Safran, Saskia Sassen, Michael Sorkin, Lars Spuybroek, Robert Stern, Mark Taylor, Bernard Tschumi, Nanako Umemoto, Ben van Berkel, Anthony Vidler, Mark Wigley, Gwendolyn Wright, Alejandro Zaera-Polo

The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century documents a historic two-day conference organized in March, 2003 by Bernard Tschumi, who was then Dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture. Some of the greatest minds in architecture assemble to discuss theory, method and design, each presenting ambitious cutting edge concepts and ideas.