The 2021-2022 NCModernist/ModHomes Architecture Movie Series
Sponsored by ModHomes Realtor Sarah Sonke, and by
Jose Lopez / Habanero Design
Matthew Griffith / in situ studio
Mark Todd / Hill Country Woodworks
For now, the films are free and online.
However, if COVID conditions signficantly change, we will shift between: The Chelsea, a beloved Chapel Hill art house theatre featuring fresh organic popcorn, local craft beers, and curated wine and soft drink sections; and the Hunt Library on the campus of NC State was designed by Snohetta and is one of the best buildings in North Carolina.
Monday-Wednesday, October 4-6, Online. Free - registration is required.
Breuer's Bohemia (2021): The iconic twentieth-century architect Marcel Breuer was a prolific designer of residential architecture, which tends to be obscured by his early renown as a Bauhaus furniture maker and his large-scale projects. Breuer's Bohemia surveys the houses he designed in the suburbs of New York City, Connecticut and Massachusetts from the 1950s through the 1970s, many of which were commissioned by politically progressive clients, chiefly Rufus and Leslie Stillman and Andrew and Jamie Gagarin, who coalesced around him into a dynamic social circle.
Free,
registration required. Featuring
a free Zoom Q&A for all registered viewers with producer James Crump
on Wednesday, October 6, 8pm ET. You'll be notified of the password for the movie and the Zoom link for the Q&A on Monday, October 4 and have through
9pm Wednesday, October 6 to watch the film.
Monday-Wednesday, November 1-3,
Online
Built Beautiful (2021): For centuries, humans have sought
to express beauty in architecture and art, but it is only recently that
neuroscience is helping to determine how and why beauty plays an important role
in our wellbeing. Architects and neuroscientists are embarking on a new
field of study in which subliminal responses to one’s built environment may
influence the future of design. Experts argue that positive subliminal reactions
lead to a pleasurable experience, one reminiscent of a powerful meditation
session. The question remains: what makes a building beautiful – or more
specifically, which elements of the built environment does the brain recognize
as beautiful? Built Beautiful is a feature length documentary movie that
examines these ideas as well as those embodied in the book Beauty, Neuroscience
& Architecture by Don Ruggles. The movie features leading experts from
around the world in the emerging field of neuro-aesthetics as well as academics,
researchers, architects and interior designers.
Featuring Q&A with producer Don Ruggles after the movie. December 6-8 -
Online
Zaha Hadid: Who Dares, Wins
(2013): Born
in Baghdad in 1950 and based in London, Zaha Hadid
was perhaps the most successful female architect
there has ever been. She was one of a handful of
global superstar designers who have changed the way
people think about the world through buildings. Yet
this wasn't always the case - Hadid once had a
reputation as an unbuildable, paper architect whose
projects began as vivid paintings of gravity-defying
shapes exploding into the void. How did this
extraordinary and pioneering woman - by turns
charming, stubborn, visionary yet exacting - come to
build the impossible? Visit her buildings
across the globe, from Austria to Azerbaijan, to find
out what made Zaha Hadid
tick. January 3, 2022 -
Hunt Library, NC State University, Raleigh. Double feature.
The Gene Leedy Influence
Levels of Ray Kappe
February 7, 2022 - Hunt Library, NC State University, Raleigh
Hollywood's Architect (2020): The Paul R. Williams Story. With Q&A after the movie with producer Royal Kennedy Rogers.
March 7, 2022 - Hunt Library, NC State University, Raleigh