Hasta La Ideas

Having dazzled Vermont’s Mad River Valley last year, the Architecture & Design Film Festival is ready for the big time: New York City. For the festival’s Gotham debut, directors Kyle Bergman and Laura Cardello have assembled an extraordinary line-up of films (warning: you’ll want to see all 40), including UnBeige favorites Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio, Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight, and Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman. “We’re delighted with the final roster of films,” says festival founder Bergman, an architect who heads his own design/build firm. “They cover an incredible range of design-oriented topics, from architecture and urban design to graphics and product design. As we like to say, ‘Design Directs Everything.’” Kicking off the four-day festival, which runs October 14-17 at Tribeca Cinemas, will be a screening of Eye Over Prague (watch the trailer below), a documentary about Jan Kaplický, the Czech architect who co-founded Future Systems. Other design stars that will be get their close-ups during the festival include architect Jeanne Gang and her firm, graphic designer Herbert Matter, Lucienne and Robin Day, and art historian Vincent Scully, the subject of a new film by Edgar B. Howard and Tom Piper. Keep an eye on the festival website for updates on post-screening events, such as panel discussions moderated by the likes of Paola Antonelli, Richard Meier, Amanda Burden, and Robert A.M. Stern—just a sampling of the festival’s illustrious advisory board.

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