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Shigeru Ban: An Architect for Emergencies A FILM BY MICHEL QUINEJURE NEWEW The Japanese architect Shigeru release Ban is noted for his use of inexpen- sive construction materials such as paper- board and cardboard tubes, which, in addition to providing emergency DIY prefab housing for earthquake victims, he has used to create homes, pavilions and churches.

In the documentary SHIGERU BAN this “Shigeru Ban is a global architect. He innovative architect discusses the practical, thinks, travels, and works without bound- philosophical and aesthetic aspects of his aries. His work has profound relevance work. In addition to his conservationist because of its ability to draw together both interest in using recycled materials, Ban world events and personal beliefs.” discusses his influences, his concerns with —Frei Otto, Architect and Engineer the bidimensional and tridimensional nature of his buildings, his aim to incorporate struc- 53 minutes | color | 2006 | tural elements into the overall designs, as Sale/DVD: $390 Order # AD7-01 well as their sensitivity to light and shade, which lends unusual vitality to his buildings. SHIGERU BAN is also a visual exploration of many of Ban’s major buildings, including the massive Japanese Pavilion for the 2000 Exposition in Hanover, Germany; the Paper Dome in Gero, Japan; the House with Double Roof in Yamanaka Lake, Japan; the Miyake Design Studio Gallery, the Hanegi Forest Home and the Ivy Structure 2 in Tokyo; the Paper Church in Kobe; and the 9 Square Grids House in Hadano. While showcasing his designs, SHIGERU BAN reveals that an emphasis on issues of conservation, economy, and accessibility does not necessarily involve a sacrifice in architectural beauty.

FIRST RUN / ICARUS FILMS Santiago Calatrava’s Travels The Future of Mud: The Tale of a Mason’s Family A FILM BY CHRISTOPH SCHAUB A FILM BY SUSAN VOGEL / PRESENTED BY THE MUSÉE NATIONAL DU MALI

Commissioned to design the new transporta- tion hub at the new World Trade Center in New York City, architect Santiago Calatrava is widely recognized as the greatest living Through the story of a mason in Komousa, family members and Madame designer of structures such as airports and NEWEW release Djenne, Komusa Tenapo, and his Diallo, a Cultural Heritage official, present train stations. His awesome and often family, this documentary examines an African information on the history of Malian architec- controversial creations can be found all over tradition of mud architecture in Mali. The ture. The film also shows the annual replas- the globe. environmental genius of these ancient tering of Dejenne’s Great Mosque, the largest SANTIAGO CALATRAVA’S TRAVELS accom- construction techniques—thick walls with mud brick building in the world, a day-long, panies the designer on visits to work sites, equipoise, which are inspired by waves, tiny windows that keep the interiors cool boisterous community effort, and a major illustrates many of his best-known construc- trees, wind, wings, the human body, and despite the stifling heat—is expressed in public celebration observed by local tions—including railway stations, bridges, other natural elements. strikingly beautiful designs that have won the residents and a few tourists. concert halls, and airports—and features his town of Djenne designation as a World 2007 RAI International Festival of comments on the creative process, and his “A splendid film! Breathtaking!… essential Heritage site. Ethnographic Film inspirations in architectural and art history. viewing for all architectural and building THE FUTURE OF MUD reveals Komusa’s hand The result is a display of Calatrava’s unique construction students.” 58 minutes | color | 2007 building methods, utilizing sun-dried bricks structural designs—buildings as visual —Leonardo: The Journal of the International Sale/DVD: $390 | Order # AD7-04 made of mud from the flood plain which sculptures, noted for their dynamic Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology contains decayed fish and cattle manure that “Enables us to understand his creative are mixed with organic materials such as thought process and to arrive at a clear straw and rice chaff. The film shows him at comprehension of his work.” work on two building sites, and at the annual —Ballast Quarterly Reviews repair of the Great Mosque, employing “Recommended! Makes accessible a thousand-year-old construction techniques, timeless art in the hands of a modern plus the secret knowledge he inherited from master.”—Educational Media Reviews Online his family of masons, including religious rituals to protect homes and workers from 77 minutes | color | 1999 evil spirits. Sale/DVD: $390 | Order # AD7-02

2 FIRST RUN / ICARUS FILMS SEE PAGE 15 FOR ORDERING INFORMATION 3 Eileen Gray: Designer and Architect Lagos/Koolhaas A FILM BY JÖRG BUNDSCHUH A FILM BY BREGTJE VAN DER HAAK NEWEW Eileen Gray (1878-1976) was always Rem Koolhaas—winner of the Pritzker release ahead of her time. And thirty years Architecture Prize—is a Professor of after her death, she is still considered the Architecture and Urban Design at Harvard. very essence of the Modern. For the past eleven years Koolhaas and students from The Harvard Project on the Everyone has seen her furniture—including City have come to Lagos, Nigeria regularly to the famous Adjustable Table, the Lota Sofa, research the type of urban environment and the Tube Light—but most people don’t produced by explosive population growth. really know the designer and architect who created them. The Project on the City is framed by two concepts: academia’s bewilderment with Gray studied at the Slade School of Fine Arts new forms of accelerated urbanization in in London before moving to Paris in 1902 developing regions and the maelstrom of where she continued redevelopment in existing urban areas; and her studies, “Highly Recommended! Excellent! Easy to the failure of the design professions to mastered view and understand. Rem Koolhaas has adequately cope with these changes. done it again.” lacquer work EILEEN GRAY: Designer and Architect also —Educational Media Reviews Online and estab- examines the history of her architectural LAGOS / KOOLHAAS follows Koolhaas over a lished the creations, including E.1027, built in Roquebrune, period of two years as he wanders through “A fascinating and provocative insight into Galerie Jean France, in 1926. This modernist seaside the city, talking with people and recognizing the very extremes of globalizing modernity Désert, from villa—an L-shaped, flat-roofed building with the problems with water, electricity and and urbanization… engaging and stimu- which she floor-to-ceiling windows and a spiral stair- traffic. Instead of judging the city to be lating viewing!” sold her avant- case—has been declared a French national doomed, he is able to interpret this “culture —Visual Anthropology Review garde, luxury of congestion” positively, helping to develop monument and is now being restored. After 2003 Architects Series, furniture pieces. a new concept of the big city. Gray left the home in the early 1930s, it was Museum of Modern Art (New York) occupied by Le Corbusier, who decorated its walls with colorful murals, which Gray 2003 International Environmental considered a desecration, and the argument Film Festival destroyed their friendship. 55 minutes | color | 2002 | Using archival footage, excerpts from Gray’s Sale/DVD: $390 Order # AD7-05 writings, plus interviews with a museum curator, an art appraiser and a design manufacturer, EILEEN GRAY chronicles this designer’s artistic formation, her travels and influences, and her relations with fellow artists and architects such as Jean Badovici, Seizo Sugawara, and Le Corbusier,

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4 FIRST RUN / ICARUS FILMS CALL TOLL FREE: 800.876.1710 5 In the Mind of the Architect Kochuu: Japanese Architecture / Influence & Origin A 3-PART SERIES BY JANNE RYAN & TIM CLARK A FILM BY JESPER WACHTMEISTER “Wonderfully interesting. Rich and KOCHUU is a visually stunning film about diverse.”—Ballast Quarterly Review modern Japanese architecture, its roots in Japanese culture, and its interplay with the “A masterful job of explaining architectural Nordic building tradition. Winding its way concepts [and] a very stylish production.” through visions of the future and traditional —The Age concepts, nature and concrete, gardens “Fascinating! Beautifully presented, and high-tech spaces, the film investigates photographed and argued.”—The Mercury how many contemporary Japanese archi- tects strive to unite the ways of modern man From the Modernist ideas of Europe and Best Documentary, 2000 Victorian North America, through the eccentricity of Architecture Awards with the old philosophies in astounding “A small film with big thoughts… a dynamic Postmodernism, and to the importance of constructions. The Bates Smart Award for Architecture dialogue in design spanning the past, climate and place, this 3-part series is an in the Media (2000) KOCHUU, which translates as “in the jar,” present, and future… Wachtmeister’s film investigation into the eclectic world of refers to the Japanese tradition of 3 x 55 minutes | color | 2000 footage of architects describing their design architects and their creations. Sale/DVD: $490 | Order # AD7-06 constructing small, enclosed physical ideas within their realized buildings is a Featuring buildings that are striking, contro- spaces. The film illustrates key components veritable historical document.”—Journal of versial or simply beautiful, and concentrating of traditional Japanese architecture, such as the Society of Architectural Historians on the views and motivations of award- reducing the distinction between outdoors 2004 International Film Festival winning Australian architects including Harry and indoors, disrupting the symmetrical, of Docs on Architecture Seidler, Richard Leplastrier, Paul Katsieris, building with posts rather than with walls, Peter Corrigan, Bernard Seeber, Phillip Cox, modular construction techniques, and its 2004 International Festival Sean Godsell and many others, IN THE MIND symbiotic relationship with water, light of Films on Art OF THE ARCHITECT explores connections and nature. 53 minutes | color | 2003 | between architecture and the human condi- The film illustrates these concepts through Sale/DVD: $390 Order # AD7-07 tion, and discusses the brutal politics of views of, among dozens of other buildings building structures. and gardens, the Imperial Katsura Palace, > Part 1, KEEPING THE FAITH explores the the Todai-Ji Temple, the Naoshima relationship between architect and client, Contemporary Art Museum, the Sony Tower, including projects where the designer is the numerous teahouses and gardens as well client. as examples of the cross-fertilization evidenced in buildings throughout > Part 2, THE PUBLIC GOOD: With capital on Scandinavia, and shows how “invisible” the move from public to private spending, Japanese traditions are evident even architects must straddle both worlds and in modern, high-tech buildings. balance the desires of business clients with the obligation to the public good. Cities are KOCHUU introduces Japan’s leading the battleground, driven by pressure for architects as well as Scandinavian commercial development. contemporaries—including Pritzker Prize winners Tadao Ando and Sverre > Part 3, CORRUGATED DREAMS: The poten- Fehn—to explore how the aesthetics of tial of architecture is to enable things to Japanese architecture and design are happen—to enhance, not restrict. What gives expressed through simple means, and an architect the confidence to build a great also shows that the best architec- building? Is it a good site, tolerant neighbors, ture expresses spiritual qualities or a gifted contractor? Or is the most impor- that enrich human life. tant factor a brave client with lots of money? 6 FIRST RUN / ICARUS FILMS SEE PAGE 15 FOR ORDERING INFORMATION 7 Great Expectations: A Journey Through the History of Visionary Architecture A FILM BY JESPER WACHTMEISTER NEWEW The new film from the director of > Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows – release KOCHUU (see Page 7), this is an Their Venus Project in Florida, blending astonishing journey through the history of functionalism, ecology and science-fiction, innovative, futuristic, utopian and sometimes aims to create a utopian vision of urban bizarre architecture projects—from the planning for a new society. beginning of the 20th century to today. With archival and contemporary footage, Since the end of the 19th century, due to animation and interviews, GREAT EXPECTA- industrialization and rapid technological TIONS traces the story of these grand archi- progress, mankind has been confronted with tectural visions, both realized and unrealized, new problems and possibilities. Visionary by great thinkers with revolutionary, if not architects and artists, motivated by contem- > Levitt and Sons – Responding to the need > Moshe Safdie – Safdie’s reinvention of the always successful, ideas. porary problems, including housing short- for affordable housing for returning WWII apartment building, introduced at Montreal’s ages, urban decay and pollution, set about to veterans, the Levitts’ designs for inexpen- Habitat ’67 Expo, features a prefab, modular create changes in our ways of living that sive and rapidly constructed tract homes in design for middle-class urban housing, challenged conventional concepts of the Long Island, New York gave birth to the where every apartment has a garden. American suburban dream. good, the true and the beautiful. > Antti Lovag – This French architect’s > Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer – concept of “Habitology,” designing architec- Their sleek but functionalist architecture ture for human needs, abandon corners for and innovative urban plan for Brasilia, the natural curves and spheres, as seen in his capital city of Brazil, built in only four years Maisons Bulle and Yellow Round Houses. in the late ’50s, remains one of the most > Paolo Soleri – Soleri’s concept of modern cities in the world. “arcology,” seen in the ongoing Arcosanti > Buckminster Fuller – Aiming to create project in Arizona, fuses architecture with conditions for a sustainable life on earth by ecology in crystal-like, hyperdense desert using fewer resources, Fuller designed the cities designed for pedestrians. lightweight Geodesic Dome, of which today more than 300,000 have been built worldwide.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS introduces us to the “Exciting… these architects seldom get most significant visionary architectural the chance to speak freely in this way. movements and personalities of the 20th This gives the content weight and lends century, including: plausibility to their visions… GREAT EXPECTATIONS gives one an appetite for > Rudolf Steiner – The Austrian philosopher visionary architecture.” and educator who designed the mammoth —RUM (Swedish architecture concrete structure of the Goetheanum and design magazine) auditorium and other buildings for the anthro- posophy colony in the Swiss countryside. “Astounding images of more or less bizarre projects are intertwined with fantastic inter- – The Unité d’Habitation apart- > Le Corbusier view material… a documentary that treats ment building in France, responding to the the viewer seriously.”—Svenska Dagbladet postwar housing shortage, was designed as a self-contained environment, a building you 56 minutes | color | 2007 would never have to leave. Sale/DVD: $390 | Order # AD7-08

8 FIRST RUN / ICARUS FILMS WWW.FRIF.COM 9 Renzo Piano: Work in Progress Regular or Super – Views on Mies van der Rohe A FILM BY MARC PETITJEAN A FILM BY JOSEPH HILLEL & PATRICK DEMERS NEWEW Renzo Piano, the world-renowned In 1967, at the end of a career spanning more release architect, owes his fame in part to than six decades, which included the design the vast scope of his work. From the of the Seagram Building in New York, the Pompidou Center in Paris to the Centre Jean- Lake Shore Drive Apartment Buildings in Marie Tjibaou in New Caledonia, and from Chicago, and the Neue Nationalgalerie in the De Menil Museum in Houston and the Berlin, architect Mies van der Rohe designed Kansai International Airport Terminal in a simple gas station near Montreal. The story Japan to The New York Times tower in of that gas station is the point of departure for Manhattan and the San Nicola Stadium in REGULAR OR SUPER, which examines Mies’ Italy, Renzo Piano constructions are found body of work (more than 70 buildings). throughout the world. Mies began his career in Germany early in the 20th century, and during the Thirties A personal and professional portrait, RENZO taught at the Bauhaus School of Art and PIANO brings together many of his closest Design in Berlin. In 1938, Mies emigrated to collaborators—architects, engineers, and Chicago where he designed 22 buildings for maquette-makers—to create a “real-life” the Illinois Institute of Technology. Over the portrait of an architect who sees his profes- next three decades, in a radical break from sion as a living thing, evolving with time the predominant beaux arts style, he refined a and practice. distinctive, modernist architectural style “Subtly reveals the artist and his philosophy emphasizing glass and steel in a variety of facades with observations from, among behind his monumental projects.” buildings whose structures creatively others, Rem Koolhaas, Elizabeth Diller and —Leonardo Digital Reviews integrated surrounding public space. Phyllis Lambert, and anecdotes from 52 minutes | color | 1999 REGULAR OR SUPER examines many of Mies’ customers and neighbors of the gas station, By following three projects at different Sale/DVD: $390 | Order # AD7-09 classic buildings, combining their striking plus comments from his biographer and stages of progress—including the Padre Pio family members. liturgical center and the Nola Cultural & Commercial Center in Italy, the first discus- “★★★★[4 out of 4 stars!] Should be seen sions about the Paul Klee Museum in Bern, immediately by anyone with an interest in and the opening of the reconstructed architecture.”—The Gazette Potsdam Square in Berlin—RENZO PIANO “Stylish… compelling and informative… examines the artistic philosophy of Piano and Mies van der Rohe’s buildings seem to come the working methods of his Renzo Piano alive.”—Booklist Building Workshop. “Recommended! Finely crafted… any library Jetting from one design workshop to another, with an architecture collection should and from one worksite to another, we see purchase it.” how Piano tries to stay true to the artisanal —Educational Media Reviews Online approach that underlies his initial creations, and his efforts to find answers to the specific Best Photography, 2005 problems of these projects in terms of the Rome Documentary Festival history and geography of the construction 2005 Chicago International locales, their function, and the financial Documentary Festival context. 57 minutes | color | 2004 Sale/DVD: $390 | Order # AD7-10

10 FIRST RUN / ICARUS FILMS SEE PAGE 15 FOR ORDERING INFORMATION 11 Sotsgorod: Cities For Utopia Waste = Food A FILM BY ANNA ABRAHAMS A FILM BY ROB VAN HATTUM After the Revolution the resources on the NEWEW In a world where more and more adapted by major corporations, visiting a Swiss desolate Russian steppes became crucial in release societies with high consumption textile factory, a German clothing manufac- the Communist plan for a new utopia. Huge rates generate excessive amounts of waste, turer, the Nike shoe headquarters, a U.S. furni- cities had to be built to house hundreds of traditional environmental notions of reducing ture manufacturer, the Ford Motor Company, thousands of workers, but Soviet architects or recycling waste products are no longer and a government housing project in China. could not design such cities: the old guard sufficient. The new theory of ecologically WASTE = FOOD also illustrates McDonough’s was politically suspect while young intelligent design argues that manufacturers’ environmentally sound architectural designs, designers fantasized about flying cities. So, products, when where buildings function like in the late 1920s and early ’30s, well-known discarded, should trees, and become part of nature Western architects were invited to create either be completely rather than conflict with it, the workers’ paradises. recyclable in the including his designs for Ford’s Technosphere SOTSGOROD tells this unknown story in the new River Rouge plant, a or become architects’ own words. Some of the last GreenHouse factory for the biodegradable food survivors are interviewed: Jan Rutgers (of the Herman Miller company, and a for the Biosphere. Autonomous International Colony Kuzbass), model village in rural China. Magarete Schutte-Lihotzky (of the Ernst May group, famous for the super efficient kitchen), “The reminiscences are interwoven to good and Phillipp Tolziner (“Bauhaus Brigade”). effect with archival footage from the 1920s Those who have passed away speak through and early 1930s that both provides a visual their letters and lectures, including Hannes context and helps to convey something of the Meyer, Hans Schmidt and Ernst May. Some chaotic, and sometime even inspirational, believed they were making an essential spirit of time and place.”—Slavic Review contribution to the workers’ struggle; others were seizing an unheard of opportunity to “A probing, eye opener of a documentary… apply their design philosophies and spatial A valuable historical document.”—Archis theories to entire cities. 1995 International Documentary “An exciting introduction to the Festival Amsterdam SOTSGOROD also visits four of the cities work of American architect/designer today—Magnitogorsk, Orsk, Novokuznetsk and 1995 International Festival William McDonough and of Films on Art Kemerov. By looking at the quality of day-to- German ecological chemist WASTE = FOOD explores this revolutionary day lives there, the film measures the success 92 minutes | color | 1995 Michael Braungart, who may well be | “cradle to cradle” (as opposed to “cradle to of the once robust ideals of the architects. Sale/DVD: $398 Order # AD7-11 starting a new industrial revolution.” grave”) concept through interviews with its —The Flaming Grasshopper leading proponents, American architect William McDonough and German ecological “Brilliant… This isn’t just feel-good hippy chemist Michael Braungart, coauthors of stuff.”—Jamie Andrei, WordPress.com Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We 2007 International Science Make Things. Their ideas are increasingly Film Festival, Athens being embraced by major corporations and Silver Dragon, 2006 Beijing governments worldwide, unleashing a new, International Science Film Festival ecologically-inspired industrial revolution. 2006 International Documentary The film shows how their “intelligent product Film Festival, Amsterdam system,” utilizing completely non-toxic and 51 minutes | color | 2006 sustainable production methods, has been Sale/DVD: $390 | Order # AD7-12

12 FIRST RUN / ICARUS FILMS CALL TOLL FREE: 800.876.1710 13 More Architecture Documentaries! Index The Discreet Charm of Bucharest Living with the Past Film Title Page Film Title Page Anthropology Construction Methods A FILM BY KARIN WEGSJO DIRECTED BY MAYSOON PACHACHI Future of Mud, The ...... 3 Future of Mud, The ...... 3 Featuring 99-year-old Documents a unique Kochuu ...... 7 Great Expectations ...... 8 architect Iulan approach to historic Shigeru Ban ...... 1 Regular or Super...... 11 Namescu, this film preservation in Cairo, Under Construction...... 14 Santiago Calatrava’s Travels ...... 2 examines architecture one of the few Waste = Food...... 13 Shigeru Ban ...... 1 in Bucharest, where medieval cities in the Architectural History Environmental Design small buildings and world that remains Discreet Charm of Bucharest, The ...... 14 Eileen Gray ...... 4 shady courtyards are relatively intact. Eileen Gray ...... 4 Future of Mud, The ...... 3 dwarfed by grim “Recommended!” From Courtyard House to Apartment Block. . 14 Great Expectations ...... 8 Stalinist complexes built —Library Journal Living with the Past ...... 14 Kochuu ...... 7 during Ceausescu’s reign. Magnitogorsk...... 14 Shigeru Ban ...... 1 56 minutes | color | 2001 40 minutes | color | 1998 Sale/DVD: $390 | Order # AD7-16 Regular or Super...... 11 Waste = Food...... 13 Sale/DVD: $375 | Order # AD7-13 Sotsgorod ...... 12 Historic Preservation Empathy Magnitogorsk: City Planning Eileen Gray ...... 4 Forging The New Man Great Expectations ...... 8 Living with the Past ...... 14 A FILM BY AMIE SIEGEL A FILM BY PIETER JAN SMIT Lagos/Koolhaas...... 5 Pritzker Prize Laureates This documentary/fiction Profiles the designers, Living with the Past ...... 14 Great Expectations ...... 8 hybrid features a playful Magnitogorsk...... 14 builders and residents Kochuu ...... 7 segment about modern Regular or Super...... 11 of the site for a blast- Lagos/Koolhaas...... 5 architecture’s relation- Sotsgorod ...... 12 furnace complex Renzo Piano ...... 10 ship to psychology and constructed in the Client Relations the psychoanalytic Thirties, when a city In the Mind of the Architect ...... 6 architect Richard Neutra. was built at breakneck Renzo Piano ...... 10 “Delightfully quirky.” speed on the steppes Santiago Calatrava’s Travels ...... 2 —The Chicago Reader of the Urals. Shigeru Ban ...... 1 92 minutes | color | 2003 “Superb… Highly recommended.” Sale/DVD: $440 | Order # AD7-14 Ordering Information —MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Librarianship Please refer to Order Numbers on From Courtyard House to all Orders. Block Apartment 60 minutes | color | 1996 Sale/DVD: $390 | Order # AD7-17 A FILM BY WYNETTE YAO Sales: DVDs are “leased for the life of Examines the reasons Under Construction, or the Place the tape.” why the traditional I Was Born No Longer Exists Previews: DVDs may be previewed for Chinese courtyard A FILM BY IGNACIO AGÜERO purchase consideration by established house is giving way to In the Providencia Barrio of Santiago, Chile, video libraries. Western style block a neighbor lives through the demolition of the apartments and how the Shipping: An additional fee for shipping house next door and the construction of a Chinese have adjusted and handling is added to sales and rentals. high-rise apartment building in the same to new patterns of form DVDs must be returned via UPS or First Run / Icarus Films place, over a two-year period. and space. PRIORITY MAIL. 32 Court Street, 21st Floor 58 minutes | color | 2001 Brooklyn, NY 11201 “With an excellent eye for detail [it] contrasts Sale/DVD: $390 | Order # AD7-18 Ordering: Submit all orders by purchase Fax: (718) 488 8642 traditional houses with modern urban apart- order, on official institutional letterhead Phone: (718) 488 8900 ments.”—Choice stationery, or pay in advance of shipping. Toll Free: (800) 876 1710 Please refer to Order Numbers on all orders. E-mail: [email protected] 23 minutes | color | 1987 Web: www.frif.com Sale/DVD: $220 | Order # AD7-15 14 FIRST RUN / ICARUS FILMS CALL TOLL FREE: 800.876.1710 15 PRSRT STD U.S. Postage PAID RIPON PRINTERS

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