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Christoph Schaub – Films on Architecture

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Can architecture really be captured in films? Christoph Schaub's nine documentaries on DVD offer an answer.


Multilingual Edition (German, English)
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By Christoph Schaub, Martin Walder
2014
DVD
24 pages, 14 color and 2 b/w illustrations
14 x 18.5 cm
ISBN 978-3-85881-908-6

A controversial Spanish engineer-architect journeys to building sites around the world. A renowned structural engineer attempts to defy gravity. Two architects search for the best—and sometimes most unusual—solutions in urban planning and development. And celebrated Swiss architects design an iconic Olympic Stadium for the Beijing games. Christoph Schaub’s documentaries tell these stories and more in this collection of nine of his films. From his first, award-winning documentary Il Girasole—A House Near Verona, about an experimental rotating house in Italy, to Brasilia—A Utopia Modernity, which explores the exhilarating experience of building Brazil’s capital city, Schaub’s documentaries prove that architecture can actually be captured on film. Through his moving images, as well as his way of looking at and showing architecture, he captivates viewers instantly as he tells fascinating stories about internationally renowned architects—including Santiago Calatrava, Herzog & de Meuron, Oscar Niemeyer, and Peter Zumthor—and the buildings they create. The three DVDs offer each film in its original version with subtitles in English, French, and German, and the accompanying booklet presents a short essay on Schaub’s work and brief introductions to the ten films.

 

The films:

Il Girasole – A House Near Verona (1995, 17 mins) Place, Function and Form – The Architecture of Gion A. Caminada and Peter Zumthor (1996, 24 mins)
White Coal (1997, 24 mins)
The Vrin Projekt (1999, 48 mins)
Santiago Calatrava's Travels (1999, 77 mins)
The Art of Justification – Jürg Conzett (2001, 14 mins)
The Shift in Meanings – Meili, Peter (2001,14 mins)
Brasilia – A Utopia of Modernity (2007, 26 mins)
Bird’s Nest – Herzog & de Meuron in China (2008, 87 Min.)

Echo

«Stets geht es um mehr als das Gebaute, wird die Frage nach dem richtigen Umgang mit Natur und Tradition aufgeworfen. Der anspruchsvolle Film Bird’s Nest über den Bau von Herzog & de Meurons Olympiastadion in Peking wird sogar zum spannend erzählten interkulturellen Lehrstück. Mehr kann ein Architekturfilm kaum leisten.» Häuser

«Ein Muss für Architektur-Interessierte.» Sabine Altorfer, Nordostschweiz

«Die hervorragend edierte Box mit dem Begleitbuch von Martin Walder wird Cineasten, Baufachleute und Urbanisten gleichermassen entzücken. Christoph Schaub zeigt nicht Einzelbauten, sondern die Wirkung, die von Architektur ausgeht. Dies wird zum Schauvergnügen, egal, ob er einen Gemeindesaal im Bündnerland oder eine TGV-Station in der Rhone-Ebene ins Bild bringt.» Felix Aeppli, NZZ am Sonntag

«Alle Filme bestechen durch ihre Dichte, in keiner Sekunde kommt Langweile auf.» Benedikt Kraft, Deutsche BauZeitschrift

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