Film
Kanopy
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform for public libraries and universities that offers films and documentaries.
Documentaries
Coast Modern: three generations of inspired living
First Earth: uncompromising ecological architecture
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
Regular or Super: views on Mies van der Rohe
Featuring stylish cinema and an evocative jazz score, this documentary illustrates many of the classic buildings by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, combining these striking facades with observations from some architecture superstars, including Rem Koolhaas, Elizabeth Diller and Phyllis Lambert, which are interlaced with anecdotes from customers and neighbors plus comments from his biographer and family members.
Secrets of lost empires: Stonehenge to the Coloseum
Entertainment
Below are some of our favorite DVDs in the library collection. They can be checked out for 3 days, or viewed in the library. Ask at the desk for headphones. You can also search the DVD catalogue, or visit the Richarch P. Welsh Library to browse our other titles!
The Belly of an Architect
The Fountainhead
Midnight in Paris
Vertigo
Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective, is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, but she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman.
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