After September 11: Re-imagining Manhattan’s Downtown SummaryCredits 2002 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Vito Acconci, Asymptote (Hani Rashid), Mel Chin, Della Valle + Bernheimer Design, Field Operations (Stan Allen/James Corner), Hugh Hardy,...
Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture SummaryCredits 1983 / 59 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Michael Graves, Philip Johnson, Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi. Narration by Martin Filler and Rosemarie...
Peter Eisenman Frank O. Gehry Rem Koolhaas Daniel Libeskind Michael Sorkin Stern Bernard Tschumi Hajime Yatsuka Deconstructivist Architects SummaryCredits 1989 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Coop Himmelblau, Rem...
Education of an Architect: Voices from the Cooper Union SummaryCredits 1993 / 64 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood With the participation of renowned architect, John Hejduk, members of the graduating class at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The...
Image courtesy of Columbia University GSAPP and the participants of the conference Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering SummaryCredits 2008 / 59 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Filmed at an international conference of...
Greg Lynn: Archaeologist of the Digital SummaryCredits 2014 / 61 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood With the participation of Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Chuck Hoberman and Shoei Yoh. Greg Lynn, one of the leading figures in computer-aided architectural...
Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture SummaryCredits 2012 / 53 min. / color Directed by Michael Blackwood Architects Lebbeus Woods and Steven Holl have been friends for many years. Both are theorists but Woods has been preoccupied with the pursuit...
Nakagin Capsule Tower: Japanese Metabolist Landmark on the Edge of Destruction SummaryCredits 2010 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Rima Yamazaki Metabolism is the first Japanese architecture movement after the World War II, manifested in 1960 by Noboru Kawazoe,...
Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering SummaryCredits 2011 / 59 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Filmed in the spring of 2011 at the 4th Columbia conference on materials in architecture and engineering. The participants in the conference:...
Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Structural Engineering SummaryCredits 2010 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Filmed in September/October 2009 at the third Columbia Conference on architecture, engineering and materials. With the participation...
Image courtesy of Columbia University GSAPP and the participants of the conference. Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering SummaryCredits 2009 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Filmed in October 2008 at the second international...
The New Clark: Bringing the Ando Experience to the Berkshires SummaryCredits 2014 / 97 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Featuring: Tadao Ando, Michael Conforti, Annabelle Selldorf, Masataka Yano, Maddy Burke-Vigeland, Kulapat Yantrasast, Leif Selkregg, Eric...
The New Modernists: 6 European Architects SummaryCredits 1992 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Narration by Kenneth Frampton Featuring: Antonio Cruz, Antonio Ortiz, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Erkki Kairamo, Francoise Raynaud, Hans Kollhoff, Jacques Herzog,...
The New Modernists: 9 American Architects SummaryCredits 1993 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Narration by Kenneth Frampton Featuring: Steven Holl, Mark Mack, Thom Mayne and Michael Rotondi, Stanley Saitowitz, Henry Smith-Miller and Laurie Hawkinson,...
The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era SummaryCredits 2001 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Narration by Kenneth Frampton Featuring: Greg Lynn, Peter Stamberg, Paul Aferiat, Wes Jones, Douglas Garofalo, Jesse Reiser,...
The New Modernists: German Architecture for the 21st Century SummaryCredits 1993 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Featuring: Christoph Ingenhoven, Thomas Herzog, Walter Nägeli, Julia Bolles, Peter Wilson, Hilde Léon, Konrad Wohlhage, Michael Schumacher,...
The Once and Future Pariser Platz: A Square in Berlin Comes Back SummaryCredits 1999 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Featuring: George Kennan, Günter Behnisch, Peter Q. Bohlin, Frank Gehry, Meinhard von Gerkan, Gerhard Kallmann, Josef P. Keihues,...
The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century SummaryCredits 2003 / 58 min. / colorDirected by Michael Blackwood Featuring: Stan Allen, Wiel Arets, Michael Bell, Andrew Benjamin, Jennifer Bloomer, Karl Chu, Nigel Coates, Beatriz Colomina, Peter Cook,...
