August 2024 on Shelter

31 July 2024
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August 2024 on Shelter – Shelter highlights include Plan for Buenos Aires and Renzo Piano Building Workshop.

Uncover an iconic architect’s plan to modernise and liberate 1920s Buenos Aires from urban design chaos; and join an exclusive behind the scenes tour inside one of the world’s premier architectural firms this August on SHELTER.

THE LIGHT OF SOUTH AMERICA: PLAN FOR BUENOS AIRES

By the early 20th century, Buenos Aires was swiftly outgrowing and straining against its original Spanish colonial foundations; and in desperate need of a major urban overhaul.

With new larger housing blocking out the sun and river, and the streets once designed for horses and carts were now clogged with cars and traffic, prominent local figure Victoria Ocampo and the Society of the Friends of Art decided to lead the way, and in 1929 invited the famous architect le Corbusier to Argentina: enticing him with the possibility of implementing his modernist ideas in South America, of which he’d been met with resistance in Europe.

When in Buenos Aires, le Corbusier gave a series of 10 lectures on Modern Architecture. During this time, he proposed an urban plan for the city.

In modernising the city, he sought to unlock the greenery buried underneath the layers of concrete, to free the “5 million citizens crawling like ants between the bars of this huge jail.”

From his initial trip and for the next twenty years he would obsessively develop his proposal, trying by all possible means to make the Plan for Buenos Aires a reality.

“Buenos Aires is suffering the consequences of hundreds of years of urban mistakes”

“To restore health to the city, it is necessary to conquer the green of the Pampas that sleeps under the cement” – le Corbusier

PLAN FOR BUENOS AIRES (79 mins) Argentina 2022 (Available August 5)

THE MIRACLE OF CREATIVITY: RENZO PIANO BUILDING WORKSHOP

Come along on an exclusive behind the scenes tour of one of the most important architectural firms in the world, and join the Renzo Piano Building Workshop team working across a span of several months.

Sit in on the meetings, phone calls, project reviews, decisions and second thoughts, and see how the team of more than 100 architects and collaborators work together, dealing with a range of unexpected events and challenges across the world, to redesign the face of our cities – including museums, hospitals, schools, waterfronts and skyscrapers.

“Creativity is a miracle that exists only when you know how to share it. Our studio is a special place, where this miracle happens every day”. – Renzo Piano

“A well-built building is not just well built; it’s also a sign of civilization. It is a very important civic gesture.”

“I have always been convinced that an architect’s job is to build shelters for mankind.”

RENZO PIANO BUILDING WORKSHOP (52 mins) Italy 2022 (Available August 19)

About Shelter

Shelter is a premium streaming service bringing you the world’s finest films about architecture & design.

Showcasing award winning feature films, episodic series and shorts, along with dedicated channels such as the Michael Blackwood Architecture Collection, The Design Emotive, 9 Sekunden, Never Too Small, Dwell and green magazine.

Shelter’s curated film library will keep you entertained, creative and inspired.

Learn from the great Starchitects such as John Lautner, Harry Seidler, Tadao Ando, Kevin Roche and Alvaro Size Vieira
Delve into small space living with titles like Tiny, Shipping Home, Small is Beautiful, Never Too Small and Microtopia
Explore sustainable solutions with Ever the Land, A Simpler Way, Life Off Grid, Living the Change and The Mill

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Shelter also brings you exclusive Shelter Originals that you won’t find anywhere else, such as popular debut series Inspired Architecture.