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architecture and cinema

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Urgent Desires: Paulo Mendes da Rocha

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Urgent Desires: Paulo Mendes da Rocha

"Architecture is about fulfilling desires, sometimes urgent, and meeting the needs of others, of society." - PAULO MENDES DA ROCHA Lift your spirits this week with It's All a Plan - a beautiful film about the life of Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1928-2021), a renowned Brazilian

Rice House: Not for the Faint-Hearted

Rice House: Not for the Faint-Hearted

"They were small homes, small cheap houses for people - returned soldiers and their families or whoever that were looking for something perhaps a little more creative." - Doug Evans Rice House is a unique mid-century home designed by Australian architect Kevin Borland that might just take your

Curation by Alexa Kempton, Editor of Houses

Houses Magazine

Curation by Alexa Kempton, Editor of Houses

It's a pleasure to bring you this distinctly Australian curation by Alexa Kempton, editor of Houses - a magazine that adorned our coffee table long before we dreamed of creating Shelter. A big thank you to Alexa and the team at Houses for this inspirational curation. Camille, Team

A Neglected Chapter: Mies in Krefeld

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A Neglected Chapter: Mies in Krefeld

"How could this happen? Even then, Krefeld was provincial. How did this collaboration happen here with an architect of this calibre?" CHRISTIANE LANGE, ART HISTORIAN Imagine your neighbours laughing with pity because you had the poor taste to be living in a house designed by Mies van der

Rem Koolhaas and the Art of Reinvention

Rem Koolhaas and the Art of Reinvention

Poverty and hunger were unwelcome companions in the post-war childhood of Pritzker Prize winner Rem Koolhaas, star of this weeks film. Born in Rotterdam, 1944, the aftermath of the second world war left a lasting impression on Koolhaas. "The situation after the war was chaotic, but the tropics were

This Kind of Beauty Will Save the World

This Kind of Beauty Will Save the World

"I want to tell you a story that I've always liked. Roberto Rossellini (an Italian film director) who filmed in the Pompidou when we were finishing it, he came a lot to film and saw that I was anxious, worried, because I was thinking about how the

A Planet in Her Own Orbit: Zaha Hadid

A Planet in Her Own Orbit: Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid unapologetically embraced success in the male-dominated world of architecture and it's thrilling to watch her stride up to the podium and accept the Pritzker Prize in this weeks film: "This is a great honour, and to be honest ..." Zaha half smiles and confidently takes

Interacting with Lautner, Mies & Neutra

Interacting with Lautner, Mies & Neutra

Imagine Richard Neutra, seat reclined all the way back, gazing up at the Californian sky with his wife Dione in the driver's seat, speeding through the busy streets of Los Angeles in a car called a Nash. Apparently, Neutra loved to do this. Isn't it a

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The Mysterious La Cupola

The Mysterious La Cupola

An eerie sense of both the past and the future resides at 𝐋𝐚 𝐂𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐚. Designed by architect 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐧𝐢 for a famous director and his actress lover in the late 1960s, this architectural wonder was never lived in as intended - with the inhabitants going their separate ways. Unfulfilled dreams fuel the charged atmosphere