This year’s Venice Architecture Biennale hosts Design Onscreen – The Initiative for Architecture and Design on Film, a first-ever presentation of 16 films.

The Biennale itself is a spectacular affair showcasing the latest in architecture and design from around the world through exhibitions and events presented by 55 countries. 27 > 29 August 2012 | Venice, Italy [ details ]

The films will screen at the Teatro Piccolo at the Arsenale – “action-central” for the many diverse offerings at the Venice Biennale. All screenings are free and open to the public and most will be followed by dynamic in-person discussions and audience Q&As, featuring top architects and design experts from around the globe, including Lord Norman Foster, Peter Eisenman, Rick Joy, Steven Holl, Vittorio Garatti, Deyan Sudjic (Director, Design Museum London), Barry Bergdoll (Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art); Moshen Mostafavi (Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Design), Mark Wigley (Dean, Columbia Univ. School of Architecture), and David Chipperfield (Curator and Director of the 13th Annual International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale).

[ films include ]
43 Colonne in Scena a Bilbao (43 Columns on Scene in Bilbao)
Antwerp Central
The Architecture of Carlo Scarpa
Coast Modern
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD: Form Matters
Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line
EAMES: The Architect and the Painter [ interview with Jason Cohn, writer/director ]
The Gruen Effect: Victor Gruen and the Shopping Mall
How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?
Mission Statements: The Architecture of Dutch Diplomacy
Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island
Peter Eisenman: The University of Phoenix Stadium
Rick Joy: Interludes
Steven Holl: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Bloch Building
Unfinished Italy
Unfinished Spaces