Upcoming Programs

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Film Festival
Architecture and Design Film Festival (ADFF) is the nation's largest film festival devoted to the creative spirit that drives architecture in design.
February 22, 2018 - February 25, 2018

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Film Program: Dries
For the first time fashion designer Dries Van Noten allows a filmmaker to accompany him in his creative process and rich home life. For an entire year Reiner Holzemer documents the precise steps that Dries takes to conceive of four collections.
February 25, 2018 12:30 PM

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Film Program: The Gamble House
The Gamble House is the incredible story of brothers Charles and Henry Greene who were pushed by their forceful father into a career in architecture only to design and build the most seminal and stunning Arts & Crafts house in America.
February 25, 2018 12:45 PM

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Film Program: Integral Man
Toronto's Jim Stewart is the most published mathematician in the world. Stewart spent a decade and a small fortune building the home of his dreams to reflect his two obsessions: curves and music. The completed home, Integral House, provides him with both.
February 25, 2018 1:00 PM

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Film Program: Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
The film highlights Jane Jacobs' magisterial 1961 treatise The Death and Life of Great American Cities, in which she single-handedly undercuts her era's orthodox model of city planning, exemplified by the massive Urban Renewal projects of Robert Moses.
February 25, 2018 2:30 PM

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Film Program: Building Hope: The Maggie's Centres
This is the fascinating story of Maggie's, a unique cancer charity. In the last year of her life, Maggie spent her time working on an idea for a cancer center which she hoped would change the lives of other cancer sufferers.
February 25, 2018 2:45 PM

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Film Program: Face of the Nation: What Happened to the World's Fair?
An idealistic architect struggles to keep her dream alive as she journeys to discover why America abandoned World's Fairs. For generations of Americans, World's Fairs captured visions of hope for the future as part of their collective memory.
February 25, 2018 2:45 PM

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Film Program: Getting Frank Gehry
Examine Gehry's challenging work over a period of 40 years. Four key phases of creativity, epitomized by four great buildings--chart the evolution of ideas over a lifetime of controversy.
February 25, 2018 4:30 PM

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Film Program: Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect
Irish-American architect Kevin Roche is an enigma. Roche's philosophy focuses on creating "a community for a modern society" and he has been credited with creating green buildings before they became part of the public consciousness.
February 25, 2018 5:00 PM

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