Design vs Build Season 1
  • Architecture, Building
  • •
  • 2021
Explores the differences in how the Architect and the Builder see a project from an idea to the construction phase and then a finished structure.
Coast Modern
  • Modernism, Dion Neutra, Julius Shulman, Architecture
  • •
  • 56m
A journey from Los Angeles to Vancouver detailing the homes of the pioneers of West Coast modernist architecture.
Louis Khan's Tiger City
  • Architecture
  • •
  • 1h 53m
Art historian and filmmaker Sundaram Tagore travels in the footsteps of American architect Louis Kahn.
Pacifico
  • Documentary, Adventure, Lifestyle
  • •
  • 1h 12m
An insight how travel, new cultures and environments can help widen our perspective.
Infinite Space
  • Documentary, Architecture
  • •
  • 1h 31m
The architecture of John Lautner, pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Inspired Architecture Season 1
  • Architecture, Design, Building
  • •
  • 2020
A Shelter original documentary series, Inspired Architecture looks behind the structures to the influences that lead to unique and inspired designs.
Dream Build Season 2
  • Architecture, Building, Design, Documentary
  • •
  • 2012
Australians in pursuit of building their dream homes.

New Additions

1h 36m • A futuristic attempt to solve urban problems by creating a full-size city from scratch in the isolated woods of northern Minnesota.
The Experimental City
  • 1h 36m
Explores the differences in how the Architect and the Builder see a project from an idea to the construction phase and then a finished structure.
Design vs Build Season 1
Fronted by Architect Dermot Bannon, this home renovation series features a diverse mix of renovations, rescues and new builds.
Room To Improve Season 9
56m • A journey from Los Angeles to Vancouver detailing the homes of the pioneers of West Coast modernist architecture.
Coast Modern
  • 56m
1h 53m • Art historian and filmmaker Sundaram Tagore travels in the footsteps of American architect Louis Kahn.
Louis Khan's Tiger City
  • 1h 53m
1h 12m • An insight how travel, new cultures and environments can help widen our perspective.
Pacifico
  • 1h 12m
5m • The most unique and complete residential conservation project in the UK.
Croft Lodge Studio
  • 5m
5m • One of the earliest examples of mid century-modern architecture in the UK.
Farnley Hey
  • 5m
1h 10m • An Italian diplomat choses an almost inaccessible Montenegrin karst landscape as a perfect spot to build his dream house.
Karst
  • 1h 10m
40m • The portrait of a house without supporting walls. A bold dome made of concrete, an open space – right in the middle of the bizarre rock formations.
La Cupola
  • 40m
11m • Self sufficiency, solitude and life in the arctic.
Northbound
  • 11m
56m • An unsuccessful attempt to transform the former East-German Alexanderplatz into a high-end, Manhattan-like business district.
Last Exit Alexanderplatz
  • 56m
1h 31m • The architecture of John Lautner, pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Infinite Space
  • 1h 31m
56m • A young boy from the housing projects to the highest achievements in his chosen profession of architecture.
Deeds Not Words
  • 56m
56m • The story of barns in the Midwest told by examining them through the lens of architecture.
The Barn Raisers
  • 56m
12m • Architect Giovanni Vaccarini guides us through the design of Powerbarn.
Body Fabric Surface
  • 12m
1h 35m • Determined that his last act will be a gift to the planet, musician and psychiatrist Clark Wang prepares for his own green burial.
A Will For The Woods
  • 1h 35m
40 • A short documentary series on creative processes, while creating the Sala Beckett in Barcelona.
Scale 1:5 Season 1
52m • The Mill is a gripping portrait of a rural community deeply divided over the fate of the local pulp mill.
The Mill
  • 52m
1h 34m • Filmmaker Marc Pierschel embarks on a journey to discover what effect a post-meat world would have on the environment, the animals and ourselves.
The End of Meat
  • 1h 34m
15 • Designer and Developer Anthony Carrino converts a heritage listed firehouse in Jersey City.
The Build Season 1
The men and women of Pioneer Log Homes, Canada make some of the most exquisite, sought after log homes around the world.
Timber Kings Season 4
1h 33m • Anton’s home is a treasure trove, a startling collection of unseen and fascinating paintings, drawings, and notebooks, not to mention Anton himself.
Almost There
  • 1h 33m
1h 3m • Charting the intersection between rural America and contemporary graphic design.
Typeface
  • 1h 3m

Shelter Recommends

15m • A Shelter original documentary series, Inspired Architecture looks behind the structures to the influences that lead to unique and inspired designs.
Inspired Architecture Season 1
1h 26m • Rethinking Ecuadorian Architecture through the use of materials and innovation.
Do More With Less
  • 1h 26m
1h 24m • Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, VISUAL ACOUSTICS celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman.
Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
  • 1h 24m
1h 12m • An insight how travel, new cultures and environments can help widen our perspective.
Pacifico
  • 1h 12m
Australians in pursuit of building their dream homes.
Dream Build Season 2
56m • A journey from Los Angeles to Vancouver detailing the homes of the pioneers of West Coast modernist architecture.
Coast Modern
  • 56m
1h 8m • Small is Beautiful is a revealing look into the tiny house movement, a grassroots response to the housing affordability crisis.
Small is Beautiful
  • 1h 8m
1h 27m • A community of nomads who have chosen to live a life of adventurous freedom on the road.
The Meaning of Vanlife
  • 1h 27m
52m • This award-winning film documents a bold architecture project on remote Fogo Island
Strange and Familiar
  • 52m
International Designer Sibella Court, follows the trials and tribulations of 7 groups of Australians committed to daunting restorations.
Restoration Australia Season 1
52m • How problem-solvers are pushing the limits to find answers and independence from the grid.
Microtopia
  • 52m
15 • Designer and Developer Anthony Carrino converts a heritage listed firehouse in Jersey City.
The Build Season 1

Magazine Video

Dwell Home Tour
Dwell Home Tour Season 1
3 • Green Magazine
Green Magazine Season 1

Architecture

1h 36m • A futuristic attempt to solve urban problems by creating a full-size city from scratch in the isolated woods of northern Minnesota.
The Experimental City
  • 1h 36m
1h 53m • Art historian and filmmaker Sundaram Tagore travels in the footsteps of American architect Louis Kahn.
Louis Khan's Tiger City
  • 1h 53m
1h 10m • An Italian diplomat choses an almost inaccessible Montenegrin karst landscape as a perfect spot to build his dream house.
Karst
  • 1h 10m
40m • The portrait of a house without supporting walls. A bold dome made of concrete, an open space – right in the middle of the bizarre rock formations.
La Cupola
  • 40m
This series sets out to explain the process we call architecture - its philosophy and its essential relationships with people.
In the Mind of the Architect Season 1
56m • An unsuccessful attempt to transform the former East-German Alexanderplatz into a high-end, Manhattan-like business district.
Last Exit Alexanderplatz
  • 56m
1h 31m • The architecture of John Lautner, pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Infinite Space
  • 1h 31m
56m • A young boy from the housing projects to the highest achievements in his chosen profession of architecture.
Deeds Not Words
  • 56m
56m • The story of barns in the Midwest told by examining them through the lens of architecture.
The Barn Raisers
  • 56m
12m • Architect Giovanni Vaccarini guides us through the design of Powerbarn.
Body Fabric Surface
  • 12m
40 • A short documentary series on creative processes, while creating the Sala Beckett in Barcelona.
Scale 1:5 Season 1
An interstitial series that explores stories of Australians who have pushed the design brief to pursuit of building a dream home.
Dream Build Season 1
52m • This film introduces viewers to famous buildings by "Master of Minimalism" Tadao Ando.
Tadao Ando: From Emptiness to Infinity
  • 52m
1h 24m • Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, VISUAL ACOUSTICS celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman.
Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
  • 1h 24m
15m • A Shelter original documentary series, Inspired Architecture looks behind the structures to the influences that lead to unique and inspired designs.
Inspired Architecture Season 1
52m • This award-winning film documents a bold architecture project on remote Fogo Island
Strange and Familiar
  • 52m
1h 22m • Kevin Roche is a highly influential architect who’s work remains just as relevant and thought provoking today as at any time in his 70 year career.
Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect
  • 1h 22m
58m • A celebration of the life and work of Australia's most controversial architect.
Harry Seidler: Modernist
  • 58m
1h 26m • Cuba's ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro's Revolution.
Unfinished Spaces
  • 1h 26m
15m • A giant birds nest, a bridge to nowhere, an oversize amplifier, a shadow tracker, an interlocking tower and a cage that stretches and bends.
Studio in the Woods
  • 15m
55m • What inspires groundbreaking concepts, designs and architecture? Life Architecturally follows internationally-acclaimed husband and wife team.
Life Architecturally
  • 55m
1h 30m • Oscar Niemeyer – Life is just a breath was produced in Brazil to coincide with Oscar Niemeyer’s 100th birthday.
Oscar Niemeyer: Life is Breath
  • 1h 30m
This stunningly filmed series explores the work of some of the world’s most famous contemporary architects.
The Art of Architecture Season 1
1h 28m • Acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Don Freeman explores handmade homes created and lived in by eleven distinguished American artists.
Art House
  • 1h 28m
58m • Jorn Utzon, acclaimed architect of the Sydney Opera House, tells his story.
The Edge of The Possible
  • 58m
1h 30m • Ever the Land is an immersive documentary that explores the sublime bond between people and their land through a landmark architectural undertaking.
Ever the Land
  • 1h 30m
52m • Talking about architecture with Álvaro Siza Vieira, recipient of the Prizker Prize and one of this century’s finest architects.
Having a Cigarette with Alvaro Siza
  • 52m
Practice is a new series of architecture documentaries by critic and curator Laura Mark and photographer and film maker Jim Stephenson.
Practice Season 1
6m • This off-grid cabin is an escape from the high stress of busy work life.
Never Too Small - Bruny Island
  • 6m
58m • An eccentric and visionary architect struggles for recognition and finds unexpected allies in the small town where he hopes to build.
Telos: The Fantastic World of Eugene Tssui
  • 58m
15m • Sunlight: Piers Taylor and Gianni Botsford
Sunlight
  • 15m
Australians in pursuit of building their dream homes.
Dream Build Season 2

Design

41m • How a seemingly obscure furniture maker inspired an entire art movement.
An American Craftsman: Wharton Esherick
  • 41m
1h 16m • Gray Matters explores the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray.
Gray Matters
  • 1h 16m
Bespoke is an engaging, amusing, irreverent but ultimately thought-provoking look at the rise of the handmade, bespoke, locally produced and artisanal
Bespoke Season 1
58m • An insight into the lifestyle of Nine artisans on secluded Gabriola Island.
A Time For Making
  • 58m
53m • Konstantin Grcic is considered one of the most innovative and profound product designers worldwide. His career began with a chair and a lamp.
Konstantin Grcic: Design is Work
  • 53m
1h 7m • And so was born the design competition and exhibition known as "Sukkah City."
Sukkah City
  • 1h 7m
1h 33m • Anton’s home is a treasure trove, a startling collection of unseen and fascinating paintings, drawings, and notebooks, not to mention Anton himself.
Almost There
  • 1h 33m
1h 3m • Charting the intersection between rural America and contemporary graphic design.
Typeface
  • 1h 3m
55m • What inspires groundbreaking concepts, designs and architecture? Life Architecturally follows internationally-acclaimed husband and wife team.
Life Architecturally
  • 55m
9m • Enter their studio as they independently publish over 1,000 copies on a small vintage 1982 Heidelberg press.
Nirin Ngaay: Design on the Edge
  • 9m
52m • This film introduces viewers to famous buildings by "Master of Minimalism" Tadao Ando.
Tadao Ando: From Emptiness to Infinity
  • 52m

Lifestyle

Explores the differences in how the Architect and the Builder see a project from an idea to the construction phase and then a finished structure.
Design vs Build Season 1
Fronted by Architect Dermot Bannon, this home renovation series features a diverse mix of renovations, rescues and new builds.
Room To Improve Season 9
1h 12m • An insight how travel, new cultures and environments can help widen our perspective.
Pacifico
  • 1h 12m
International Designer Sibella Court, follows the trials and tribulations of 7 groups of Australians committed to daunting restorations.
Restoration Australia Season 1
15 • Designer and Developer Anthony Carrino converts a heritage listed firehouse in Jersey City.
The Build Season 1
Architect Dermot Bannon is back with a brand new series of Room To Improve featuring eight challenging and innovative new design projects.
Room To Improve Season 7
Tim Ross, broadcaster, comedian and aficionado of all things Modernism, tracks the stories of Australia's iconic houses and Architecture.
Streets of Your Town Season 1
22 • Host Holly Baker visits top destinations across the country and helps prospective homeowners choose potential vacation homes to buy.
Vacation Rental Potential Season 2
47 • Sarah Beeny attempts to save a near-derelict listed Georgian stately home.
Beeny's Restoration Nightmare Season 2
The men and women of Pioneer Log Homes, Canada make some of the most exquisite, sought after log homes around the world.
Timber Kings Season 4
Charlie Luxton visits some of the best coastal properties on the Mediterranean.
Charlie Luxton's Homes by the Med Season 2
Architects and interior designers Denise O'Connor and Catherine Crowe help people fall back in love with their homes.
Design Doctors Season 1
Fronted by Architect Dermot Bannon, this home renovation series features a diverse mix of renovations, rescues and new builds.
Room To Improve Season 8
42 • Honey I Bought the House is a nail-biting approach to the reality of buying a first home, which sees couples given a £15,000 deposit.
Honey I Bought the House Season 2
48m • Charlie Luxton casts off on a journey in search of the finest, the quirkiest, the most spectacular and the most unusual homes around the coastline.
Charlie Luxton's Homes by the Sea Season 3
Design Doctors, is back for a second series with a new dynamic design duo, Aoife Rhattigan and Garry Cohn.
Design Doctors Season 2

Architecture Shorts

5m • The most unique and complete residential conservation project in the UK.
Croft Lodge Studio
  • 5m
12m • Architect Giovanni Vaccarini guides us through the design of Powerbarn.
Body Fabric Surface
  • 12m
5m • One of the earliest examples of mid century-modern architecture in the UK.
Farnley Hey
  • 5m
15m • A giant birds nest, a bridge to nowhere, an oversize amplifier, a shadow tracker, an interlocking tower and a cage that stretches and bends.
Studio in the Woods
  • 15m
40 • A short documentary series on creative processes, while creating the Sala Beckett in Barcelona.
Scale 1:5 Season 1
15m • Sunlight: Piers Taylor and Gianni Botsford
Sunlight
  • 15m
11m • Self sufficiency, solitude and life in the arctic.
Northbound
  • 11m
5m • James believes buildings should be ephemeral and, once their natural life-cycle is complete, should be returned to the ground or reused.
Middle Barn
  • 5m
5m • Architect and artist James Wade shows us the process involved for a special commission.
The Mount in Miniature
  • 5m

Small Living

55m • How do we make housing more affordable? What are other countries trying and what bright ideas might we pinch from them?
The Home Show
  • 55m
1h 7m • And so was born the design competition and exhibition known as "Sukkah City."
Sukkah City
  • 1h 7m
1h 6m • What is home? And how do we find it? TINY follows one couple's attempt to build a Tiny House from scratch
Tiny
  • 1h 6m
1h 27m • A community of nomads who have chosen to live a life of adventurous freedom on the road.
The Meaning of Vanlife
  • 1h 27m
22m • The year-long construction of North Carolina's first shipping container residence.
Shipping Home
  • 22m
52m • How problem-solvers are pushing the limits to find answers and independence from the grid.
Microtopia
  • 52m
1h 26m • Rethinking Ecuadorian Architecture through the use of materials and innovation.
Do More With Less
  • 1h 26m
15m • A Shelter original documentary series, Inspired Architecture looks behind the structures to the influences that lead to unique and inspired designs.
Inspired Architecture Season 1
1h 8m • Small is Beautiful is a revealing look into the tiny house movement, a grassroots response to the housing affordability crisis.
Small is Beautiful
  • 1h 8m
6m • This off-grid cabin is an escape from the high stress of busy work life.
Never Too Small - Bruny Island
  • 6m
18m • This off-grid tiny house on wheels was built by Fred Schultz of Fred’s Tiny Houses in Victoria, Australia.
Happen Films - Amazing Tiny House on Wheels
  • 18m
4m • Architect Ben Edwards created a 44m2 boomerang-shaped house using 3 shipping containers.
Never Too Small - House 28
  • 4m
12m • We take a tour of Adam and Sian’s beautiful off-grid tiny house truck, which was built using mostly reclaimed materials.
Happen Films - The Handmade House Truck
  • 12m

Sustainability

11m • Self sufficiency, solitude and life in the arctic.
Northbound
  • 11m
1h 35m • Determined that his last act will be a gift to the planet, musician and psychiatrist Clark Wang prepares for his own green burial.
A Will For The Woods
  • 1h 35m
52m • The Mill is a gripping portrait of a rural community deeply divided over the fate of the local pulp mill.
The Mill
  • 52m
1h 34m • Filmmaker Marc Pierschel embarks on a journey to discover what effect a post-meat world would have on the environment, the animals and ourselves.
The End of Meat
  • 1h 34m
1h 13m • Will eating insects save our Earth? Are insects a mirror that reflects our broken food systems, or the silver bullet that will fix them?
Bugs
  • 1h 13m
1h 30m • Ever the Land is an immersive documentary that explores the sublime bond between people and their land through a landmark architectural undertaking.
Ever the Land
  • 1h 30m
1h 26m • A film about disconnecting.
Life Off Grid
  • 1h 26m
1h 47m • How can we best meet every earth citizens need for healthy food facing our limited resources?
10 Billion: What’s on Your Plate?
  • 1h 47m
1h 37m • Determined to save his community from the forced displacement Jairo Fuentes sets out to negotiate with the mine’s operators.
La buena vida - The Good Life
  • 1h 37m
1h 19m • A community who came together; explored and demonstrated a simpler way to live.
A Simpler Way
  • 1h 19m
1h 25m • Inspiring stories for a sustainable future
Living the Change
  • 1h 25m
1h 37m • Dan and Andrew take a road trip and meet the men and women who are challenging the way this country grows and distributes its food.
Growing Cities
  • 1h 37m
30m • Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest is a free 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve, on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula.
Fools & Dreamers
  • 30m
15m • One small family practicing urban sufficiency on 1/10th of an acre in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia
Happen Films - Degrowth in the Suburbs
  • 15m
1h 31m • Demand for land has soared as investors look for places to grow food for export, grow crops for biofuel or simply buy up land for profit.
Land Grabbing
  • 1h 31m
0m • Explores the Passive House movement, a new development in homebuilding and technology
Super House
  • 0m