Tickets are available for purchase at the door for this film.

The University of Technology, Sydney’s new business school, is Frank Gehry’s daring “Treehouse project,” otherwise known as the “crumpled brown paper bag” to its critics. At first sight, the school will almost certainly shock anyone not already familiar with Gehry’s work elsewhere around the world. The film follows the drama as Gehry’s vision for this commission is realized. Through the construction of this building, we examine his challenging work over a period of 40 years. Four key phases of creativity, epitomized by four great buildings—The Gehry House, The Vitra Museum, The Guggenheim Bilbao and MIT’s Stata Centre—chart the evolution of ideas over a lifetime of controversy to play out on the downtown Sydney construction site.
Director: Sally Aitken
2015 / 59 min / Australia

This feature film will be screened in the Museum's Great Hall. Please note that the Great Hall theater will utilize wireless headsets. To check out your device, you will be required to  leave a credit card or valid driver's license on file with a National Building Museum staff member. 

This feature length film is followed by This Was Not My Dream
Director: Gabriel Kogan & Pedro Kok
2016 / 5 min / Brazil 
“Suzana only thinks of the house, she is in love with it.” Suzana’s ex-husband cannot get it out of his mind that the new house—conceived by them both—meant the end of his marriage. The ex-husband’s jealous looks are meant for nobody else other than the straight and modern lines, “cold, tedious and without life.” While images pass through the architecture he distills his fear of the construction and elaborates about the new life that Suzana will be enjoying at that place. “Where is Suzana now?” She couldn’t be in any other place except that house, where Suzana’s love is so transparent.

1.0 LU (AIA)

The Architecture & Design Film Festival: D.C. is presented by the Revada Foundation, courtesy of the estates of Reva and David Logan.

$12 Museum | $10 Student | $15 Non-member | $125 All Access 

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Image Credit: UTS Building behind trees. Photograph by Andrew Worssam.