Program

The film presents thirty buildings and architectural ensembles by French architects and construction engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret. Auguste has refined concrete construction in the implementation of his projects and instilled in them a classical expression. His edifices in France and their continued existence in the present are juxtaposed to his projects in Algeria.

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Special Programme 5
Doclisboa joined Trienal de Arquitectura with a programme presenting some films based upon the intertwining of these two fields. These films arise a whole series of points of view ranging from portraits of architects to social and political issues connected to architecture and to the true experimentation of the cinematographic form in relation to the architectural form.