This extremely well-made, educational and enjoyable film, although apparently geared towards the general public, will not bore those architects among us who think they've heard and seen enough of Frank Gehry's most popular building, completed in Bilbao, Spain in 1997.
The film breaks down the museum -- from the outside in and then back outside again -- to explain how the building works and how it relates to the city. In addition to the requisite location photography of interiors and exteriors, the film employs models throughout to help in this undertaking; below illustrates the discrepancy between the building's form and its function (lifted portion shows extent of inaccessible space) that creates a "loss of reference" for somebody seeing the building from the outside and trying to understand its inside.
Further devices are used to give the viewer an understanding of the complex forms of the building and its interior spaces. Here, a connection is made to Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim in New York. The filmmaker describes that "Gehry makes the reference and then instantly forgets it."
More than a decent documentary on a well known building, this film is a great model for how architecture
When you have 23min. 37sec. free go check it out.
BONUS! If you have many, many more minutes free, here's even more architecture videos like the Guggenheim one above. They appear to be part of a series (anybody know the details?) and are kindly posted by popef*cker:
:: Jewish Museum, Berlin by Daniel Libeskind
:: Casa Mila, Barcelona by Antonio Gaudi
:: Auditorium Building, Chicago by Louis Sullivan
:: Maison de Verre, Paris by Pierre Chareau
:: Thermal Baths, Vals by Peter Zumthor
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