• 2011
The Secret Life of Buildings

Summary A look at how architecture affects the way we feel. According to Architectural historian Tom Dyckhoff, we have hard-wired desires about what we expect from the spaces we inhabit. These desires are then exploited by architects and businesses. View more details

  • 2011

The Secret Life of Buildings

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Karl Lagerfeld Tom Dyckhoff Bjarke Ingels Zaha Hadid

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8.2

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jul 31, 2011

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : Renegade Pictures

Summary A look at how architecture affects the way we feel. According to Architectural historian Tom Dyckhoff, we have hard-wired desires about what we expect from the spaces we inhabit. These desires are then exploited by architects and businesses. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jul 31, 2011

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : Renegade Pictures

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The Secret Life of Buildings (2011)

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Episode 1 • Jul 31, 2011
Home
Dyckhoff explores how the design of our homes works secretly to influence our behaviour. Light, room size, layout, proportion and materials all have measurable effects on our lives. So why do we accept the smallest windows and the smallest room sizes in Europe? And what can we do about it?
Episode 2 • Aug 07, 2011
Work
Our workplace - from schools to offices and factories - should inspire us, motivate us and bring out the best of our abilities. But are these spaces doing just the opposite? Tom Dyckhoff makes some revelatory and shocking discoveries about how the buildings in which we spend our working life can physically change our brain, and shows why open-plan offices are bad spaces to work in. Armed with this new knowledge, Dyckhoff meets and challenges pre-eminent architects including Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid to re-evaluate their creations. He brings them face-to-face with the people who use their buildings every day. He even tries working in their buildings himself while taking part in an experiment to measure the impact on his brain. What do the results show about working in these spaces? Have we become so obsessed with iconic exteriors that we've stopped thinking about the people inside them? And is it possible to design a building that makes us feel happy while making us more productive too?
Episode 3 • Aug 14, 2011
Leisure
Tom Dyckhoff looks at how we're affected by the design of buildings we visit in our leisure time. He argues that architects are now designing buildings that are all about spectacle and cheap thrills (however expensive to build), and have forgotten the true purpose of 'play': to bring people together for a communal experience. From shopping malls to football stadiums and museums, Tom discovers how important play is in our lives and argues controversially that, ever since the commercial success of the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the buildings we're being given to play in are damaging us. With their increasingly crazy, computer-designed looks, they may seem playful, but these individualistic, flashy, narcissistic icons produce an increasingly alienating and fragmented landscape where we feel less joined up and less playful, and make less sense of our world, not more.
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