by Caroline Tisdale
Tisdale has provided the best review to date on the Futurism movement which reached its
peak shortly before the break out of WWI. While its focus was mostly on art,literature, and
performance art, the movement also featured the architectural visions of Antonio Sant 'Elia.
by Fritz Lang
This is the classic edition, which comes closest to Lang's original version. You might also
want to read the BFI film classics guide to Metropolis to give you further insight into the film.
by King Vidor
I'm sure Ayn Rand was none too happy with the film version of her novel, but it helped to
further celebrate her iconoclastic view of the world through an uncompromising architect.
by Hannah Higgins
Higgins attempts to put this movement spawned in the 1960's into perspective in one of the
most complete books written on the subject. Also worth checking out are the collected work
of Mr. Fluxus, George Maciunas, and Jonas Mekas.
by Terry Gilliam
The Criterion edition is the most comprehensive package of the film, which includes two
versions of the movie as well as interviews and other special features, helping you to better
understand the mind-bending world that Gilliam created.
The first in this series of films is The Powers of 10, which explores both the outer reaches of
space and the inner reaches of the human body by multiplying and dividing one's view by ten.
by Morris Lapidus
In case you were wondering who designed the once glorious Fontainebleau and other hotels
in Miami Beach, featured in the classic Bond movie, Goldfinger.
by Peter Greenaway
A very unusual look at Rome, as an American architect has been commissioned to do an
exhibition of the work of Boullee. What follows is a very compelling montage of images and
impressions as Stourley Kracklite looks deep into himself to find the "belly" of the great
visionary architect.
by Rem Koolhaus
Koolhaus takes a highly personalized tour of New York, looking at in a broad collective sense
that would inspire Bruce Mau and others in the way we look at the city. Koolhaus and Mau
would later collaborate on S, M, L, XL
by the Maysles Brothers
Christo and Jeanne-Claude have long had a way of making us look differently on familiar objects,
and now the Maysles brothers turn the camera on these famous installation artists.
by Robert Venturi
A book that turned the architectural world on its ear, by taking lessons from the kitsch world of
Las Vegas and roadside architecture in general, inspiring the phrase, "when is a building not
a duck?"
by Art Spiegelman
Well known for his stunning graphical novels, Spiegelman now explores the impact of losing the
Twin Towers in New York through animation.
