film review - ARCHOT

Yael Melamede’s ‘Ada: My Mother the Architect’ is a Portrait of a Celebrated Designer Told Through a Familial Lens

✕ An unscientific survey of the Internet Movie Database shows nearly 100 feature-length architecture documentaries released since 2000. About 10 are focused on woman architects;…

‘Touristic Intents’ Ponders the ‘Guilt’ of Buildings with Difficult Histories

✕ Arguing about how and whether to conserve historic buildings can often get complicated. But wrangling over preservation versus redevelopment gets thorny when one side…

Daniel Libeskind on the Art of Architecture in Film

✕ Architecture doesn’t often intersect with narrative film. But it had a good year at the movies in 2024, with two major releases—Francis Ford Coppola’s…