Tom Piper

Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line

Muffie Dunn, Tom Piper

Diller Scofidio + Renfro has long been at the forefront of design with provocative exhibitions that blurred the boundaries between art and architecture. This film captures their extraordinary evolution and unique process in reimagining the public identities of Lincoln Center and the once derelict High Line railroad tracks.

Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings

Edgar Howard, Tom Piper

The life and work of conceptual artist Sol LeWitt.

Vincent Scully: An Art Historian Among Architects

Tom Piper

This hour-long film explores the phenomenon of Vincent Scully, tracing his connection to New Haven & to Yale. It follows the arc of his interests in classical art & architecture to American architecture, historic preservation, & urban design in the 20th Century. Architects & former students such as David Childs, Paul Goldberger, Robert A.M. Stern, and Robert Venturi contribute to this dialogue.

John Richardson: The Art of Picasso 1927 - 1973

Muffie Dunn, Edgar Howard

John Richardson

We are in the midst of production on a one-hour film on seminal art historian John Richardson, and his work on the fourth and final volume of his biography on Picasso. Richardson shares his insights and observations on Picasso, whom he first met in the 1950s, with Shelley Wanger, his editor at Alfred A. Knopf (a division of Random House, Inc.).

Peter Eisenman: University of Phoenix Stadium for the Arizona Cardinals

Tom Piper

Peter Eisenman

Seminal theoretician and influential architect, Peter Eisenman is also an irrepressible sports fanatic. In this revealing look into his design for an iconic new home for the Arizona Cardinals football team, Eisenman takes us on a tour of the stadium that represents the culmination of nearly a decade of his work on this visionary sports facility.

Studio Gang Architects: Aqua Tower

Tom Piper

Jeanne Gang

The film not only examines the thinking behind Aqua which makes the building's presence against the skyline so striking, but takes visitors to the award-winning "Brick Weave House" (2009) in a Chicago residential neighborhood, where brick walls form a large open-air "screened porch" at the house's front.

Thom Mayne: U.S. Federal Office Building, San Francisco

Charles Gansa, Tom Piper

Thom Mayne

The Pritzker-prize winning architect Thom Mayne has been identified with muscular, bold, steel-and-glass design since the founding of his firm, Morphosis, in 1971. Through a tour of the Federal Office Building in San Francisco, Mayne proves that innovative and sustainable architecture can be introduced successfully into a building type typically considered predictable and boring.

Steven Holl: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Bloch Building

Tom Piper

Steven Holl

In this enlightening visit, Holl takes us through the galleries where contemporary art is displayed beneath curving vaults admitting daylight, a tour which effectively demonstrates the convergence of space, time, and architecture.

Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments

Edgar Howard, Tom Piper

Ellsworth Kelly

Cameras record artist Ellsworth Kelly as he creates sculptures for the US Embassy in Beijing. With all his equipment around him, Ellsworth undertakes a big task as his creates he next masterpieces.