Ricker Library has a small collection of videos available primarily for classroom use. Titles include: Keck & Keck Architects, Japan: Three Generations of Avant-Garde Architects; The New Modernists: Six European Architects; and The New Modernists: Nine American Architects. A complete list of Ricker Library’s video holdings is reproduced below; this list is also available at the circulation desk.
Videos are available for classroom use by faculty only. We ask that faculty make arrangements in advance to check out videos, which is best done between 8:30 am and 5:00 pm, Monday-Friday. Please contact Chris Quinn for questions concerning videos.
Please note that there are additional videos relating to art and architecture available in the Undergraduate Library Media Center (e.g. Trajan’s Column, Lorenzo Ghiberti: Gates of Paradise, John Nash and London, Pride of Place). Check the Library Catalog (limited to movie media, including Blu-ray, DVD, and VHS) for these and other titles. For information regarding the video collection of the Undergraduate Library and to make arrangements to check out videos held there, contact Mary Laskowski, Undergraduate Library, MC-522 or call 333-2640.
Ricker library does NOT have facilities to view VHS videotapes.
Video List
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N P R S T U V W
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- Aberrant Architectures? Diller + Scofidio at the Whitney Museum, 2003. 58 minutes. VIDREC 720.92Ab37
- Air, Light, and Utopia: The Modern Movement in Architecture, 2004. 53 minutes. DVD 720.94 Ai71
- Alvar Aalto, 199?. 20 minutes. VIDREC 721.094897A186
- Architectures = Architekturen, 2001. 163 minutes. DVD 724.6 Ar2542 – Volume 1 of series (we have this volume only)
- Art 21: Art in the 21st Century, 2 DVDs. Seasons 1 & 2, 2003-2004. Approximately 7.5 hours. DVD 709.05 Ar757
- Art 21: Art in the 21st Century. Season 3, 2005. 220 minutes. DVD 700.92 Ar75 2005
- Atheneum: Analysis of Form (on Richard Meier’s Atheneum at New Harmony, IN), 1988. 30 minutes. VIDREC 720.973M47a
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- Berlin’s Jewish Museum: A Personal Tour with Daniel Libeskind, 2000. 58 minutes. VIDREC 727.60943155 B455
- Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture, 1983. 58 minutes. VIDREC 724.6B468 – Discusses Gehry, Johnson, Graves, Eisenman, Venturi, Scott-Brown
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- Columbus Indiana: People and Their Buildings, 199?. 14 minutes. VIDREC 720.9772C715
- Czech Dream, 2007. 88 minutes. DVD 659.1042 C3372007
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- A day with Zaha Hadid, 2004. 58 minutes. VIDREC 727.7D334
- Design Drawing Videotapes, 1989. Approximately 60 minutes per tape. VIDREC 720.284… (Author of all tapes is William Kirby Lockard)
- Principles & Methods of Direct Perspective
- Laying Out Interior Perspectives
- Laying Out Exterior Perspectives
- Shadow Casting on Exterior Perspectives
- Principles & Geometry of Shadow-Casting
- Line and Tone Drawings
- Principles & Methods of Direct Perspective
- Materials, Reflections, and Placement of Textures
- Adding the Exterior Context
- Lighting Interior Perspectives
- Drawing Techniques for Designers
- Drawing Reflections in Glass and Water
- Drawing for Reproduction
- Drawing Foregrounds and Backgrounds
- Drawing and Placing Furnishings
- Overview of the Design Drawing Videotapes
- Drawing Building Materials
- Drawing and Placing Landscaping
- Adding the Interior Contents
- Design e²: The Economies of Being Environmentally Conscious, 2006. 180 minutes. DVD 363.7 D46
- Design e² Season Two, 2007. 180 minutes. DVD 363.7 D462007
- Design Wars. Approximately 60 minutes. DVD 727.824 D46 – DVD Release of 1989 episode of PBS NOVA program concerning the Design Building Competition to design the Harold Washington Library Center, the main branch of the Chicago Public Library
- Duane Michals: 1936-1997, 1978. 14 minutes. VIDREC 770.973M582
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- Eisenman: Building Germany’s Holocaust Memorial, 2006. 60 minutes. DVD 720.973 Ei84peter
- Ennis-Brown House (FLW). (Wrightian’s Organic Architecture Series #4), 1992. 60 minutes. VIDREC 720.973W93Enn
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- The Field Museum: Earthly Treasures, 2003. 28 minutes. DVD 508.074 F457
- The Films of Charles and Ray Eames, 5 videocassettes. Approximately 60 minutes per tape. VIDREC 745.44973Ea63f
- V. 1 – Powers of Ten and Rough Sketch of. . .Powers of Ten
- V. 2 – Toccata for Toy Trains, House: after 5 years of living, Lucia Chase Vignette, Kaleidoscope Jazz Chair, The Black Ships, Atlas, Blacktop
- V. 3 – World of Franklin and Jefferson and related Films
- V. 4 – Design Q and A, IBM Mathematica Peep Shows, SX-70, etc.
- V. 5 – IBM at the Fair, A Computer Glossary, Eames Lounge Chair, etc.
- First Person Singular: I.M. Pei, 1997. 90 minutes. VIDREC 720.973P35f
- Five Films About Christo & Jeanne-Claude, 3 DVDs. 282 minutes. DVD 730.94977 C465fi
- V. 1 – Christo’s Valley Curtain, Running Fence
- V. 2 – Islands, Christo in Paris
- V. 3 – Umbrellas (+ Interview)
- The Forgotten Space, 2010. 112 minutes. DVD 387.544 F74
- Francesco Torres: Plus Ultra, 1989. 27 minutes. DVD 709.46 T636f1
- Frank Gehry, 1987. 57 minutes. VIDREC 720.92G274f
- Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy, 2000. 58 minutes. VIDREC 720.973 G274frank
- Frank Lloyd Wright. 2 Videocassettes. 2 hours, 33 minutes. VIDREC 720.973W93Bu – Ken Burns/PBS Video
- Frank Lloyd Wright & Paul Rudolph: chapels & colleges, 2000. 86 minutes. VIDREC 720.973W93frank1
- Frank Lloyd Wright: the Office for Edgar J. Kaufmann, 1993. 30 minutes. VIDREC 720.973W93v
- Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, 2005. 2 DVDs. 60 minutes. DVD 720.973 W93frankll
- The Frescoes of Diego Rivera, 1986. 35 minutes. VIDREC 759.972F892
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- Gerhard Richter, 4 decades, 2002. 57 minutes. VIDREC 759.3R418gerh
- Goff: In the Desert, 2003. 110 minutes. DVD 720.973 G556g2005
- Green Building: Your Edge in the Home Building Marketplace, 2006. 4 Volumes. Approximately 420 minutes. DVD 690.837 G82
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- Historical development of hi-rise structures, 1973. 50 minutes. VIDREC 720.483K527h – Videotaped lecture at UIUC by Fazlur Khan, structural engineer of the Sears Tower
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- The Illuminator and a Bible for the 21st Century, 2005. 49 minutes. DVD 220.520434 Il688
- Imagining America: Icons of 20th Century American Art, 2005. 120 minutes DVD 709.7309043 Im17
- Interactive Structures: Visualizing Structural Behavior, 2005. DVD 720.285 V448i
- Introduction to Universal Design, 1994. 28 minutes. VIDREC 725.5401In8
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- James Turrell: Passageways, 2006. 26 minutes. DVD 709.73 T866ja2006
- Jan Groover: Tilting at Space, 1994. 30 minutes. VIDREC 770.973G645
- Japan: Three Generations of Avantgarde Architects, 1988. 60 minutes. VIDREC 720.952J271 – Features Hasegawa, Ito, Isozaki, Ando, Shinohara, and Maki
- Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Painter, 1993. 57 minutes. VIDREC 759.13 M694joanm
- Joan Miró: Films et Interviews 1971-1974, [2005?]. DVD 759.6 M67miro
- John Nash and London, [2004?]. 27 minutes. (Part 3 of Understanding Cities — see below) DVD 711.4 Un2
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- Keck and Keck Architects, 1993. 2 Videocassettes. 2 hours, 24 minutes. VIDREC 720.973K234K
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- Latin American Women Artists 1915-1995, 2005. 27 minutes. DVD 704.042098 L3497
- Lectures of Robert Beverly Hale, 1985. 75 minutes, per lecture per tape. VIDREC 743.49H135L – These lectures were given by Hale when he was an instructor at the Art Students League of New York
- Lecture 1. – Rib Cage
- Lecture 2. – Pelvis
- Lecture 3. – Leg
- Lecture 4. – Foot
- Lecture 5-6 – Shoulder Girdle
- Lecture 7. – Arm
- Lecture 8. – Hand
- Lecture 9. – Head
- Lecture 10. – Head and Features
- Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture, 2010. 97 minutes. DVD 720.973 L929
- Louis Sullivan’s Banks: the jewel boxes of the prairie. 66 minutes. VIDREC 720.973Su541
- Louise Bourgeois, 1975. 30 minutes. VIDREC730.944 B664louis
- Lustron: The House America’s Been Waiting For, 2003. 60 minutes. DVD 338.76432 L976
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- Magnificent Obsession: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Buildings and Legacy in Japan, 2005. 126 minutes. DVD 720.973 W93mag
- Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City, 2010. 57 minutes. DVD 720.973 B935
- Mary Jane Colter: The Desert View, 1996. 53 minutes. VIDREC 720.973 M368
- Masters of Modern Sculpture, 3 Videocassettes. 180 minutes. VIDREC 735.23 M3937
- V. 1 – The Pioneers
- V. 2 – Beyond Cubism
- V. 3 – The New World
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- The New Modernists: Nine American Architects, 1993. 60 minutes. VIDREC 720.9730904N42 – Dicusses work of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Henry Smith-Miller and Laurie Hawkinson, Steven Holl, Thom Mayne and Michael Rotundi (Morphosis), Stanley Saitowitz, and Mark Mack
- The New Modernists: Six European Architects, 1992. 59 minutes. VIDREC 720.940904N42 – Features work of Antonio Cruz, Kristian Gullichsen, Jacques Herzog, Hans Kollhoff, Jean Nouvel, and Edward Souta de Moura
- Notes for Those Beginning the Discipline of Architecture, 2006. 36 minutes. DVD 720.71 M541n
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- Pedro E. Guerrero: Portrait of an Image Maker, 2007. 70 minutes. DVD 770.92 P343
- Philip Johnson: Diary of an Eccentric Architect, 1996. 55 minutes. VIDREC 720.973 J639
- Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image, 2003. 11 DVDs. DVD 791.4361 P755 – Each volume features a commissioned work by the artist, plus additional material such as an interview and overview of previous works
- V. 1 – Francis Alÿs
- V. 2 – David Claerbout
- V. 3 – Douglas Gordon
- V. 4 – Gary Hill
- V. 5 – Pierre Huyghe
- V. 6 – Joan Jonas
- V. 7 – Isaac Julien
- V. 8 – William Kentridge
- V. 9 – Paul McCarthy
- V. 10 – Pipilotti Rist
- V. 11 – Anri Sala
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- Regular or Super: Views on Mies van der Rohe, 2004. 57 minutes. DVD 720.92 R265
- Richard Meier in Rome: Building a Church in the City of Churches, 2006. 55 minutes. DVD 720.973 M47richar
- Riches, Rivals, and Radicals: 100 Years of Museums in America, 2006. Approximately 60 minutes. DVD 069.09730904 R399
- Robert Frank: The Complete Film Works, 3 DVDs. Approximately 90 minutes per DVD. DVD 791.437 R54
- V. 1 – Pull My Daisy, Sin of Jesus, Me & My Brother
- V. 2 – OK End Here, Conversations in Vermont, Liferaft Earth
- V. 3 – About Me: A Musical, S-8 Stones Footage from Keep Busy
- Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. 59 minutes. VIDREC 720.92V568R
- Rockwell Kent: A Documentary, 2 DVDs. 172 minutes. DVD 759.1 K41l
- The Rural Studio, 2002. 56 minutes. DVD 720.71176143 R88
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- Sacred Spaces: The Architecture of Fay Jones, 2009. Approximately 60 minutes. DVD 720.973 J715s
- Schindler’s Houses, 2008. 99 minutes. DVD 720.973 Sch34sch
- Sir John Sloane: An English Architect, an American City, 2005. 62 minutes. DVD 720.942 So1si
- Sketches of Frank Gehry, 2006. 84 minutes. DVD 720.973 G274sk
- The social life of small urban spaces, 1988. 60 minutes. VIDREC 307.764So13
- The Spirit in Architecture: John Lautner, 1992. 58 minutes. VIDREC 720.92L378S
- Steven Holl: The Body in Space, 2002. 58 minutes. VIDREC 720.973 H718steve2002
- Sullivan’s Banks, 2008. 38 minutes. DVD 720.973 Su5su
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- Tadao Ando, 1989. 60 minutes. VIDREC 720.952An24t4
- Three Homes by Architect Arthur Dyson. (Wrightian’s Organic Architecture Series, #5), 1993. 90 minutes. VIDREC 720.973D995t
- The Tugendhat House: Mies van der Rohe’s Czech Masterpiece, 2004. 50 minutes. DVD 724.6 T817
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- Uncommon Places: the Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, 1988. 60 minutes. VIDREC 720.973W93Un
- Understanding Cities: a Series of Five Documentary Films by Edmund N. Bacon. 29 minutes. VIDREC 711.4Un2 – Includes text guide
- Part 1 – Rome: Impact of an Idea
- Part 2 – Paris: Living Space
- Part 3 – John Nash and London (also available as DVD, 711.4 Un2)
- Part 4 – The American Urban Experience
- Part 5 – The City of the Future
- Universal Design in Architecture, 1994. 36 minutes. VIDREC 725.54087Un3
- Universal Design in the Landscape, 1994. 34 minutes. VIDREC 712.087Un3
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- VDL Research House: Richard Neutra’s Studio & Residence, 2 DVDs. 40 minutes. DVD 720.973 N39v
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- Walter Burley Griffin, in his own Right, 1998. 57 minutes. VIDREC 720.973G87Wa – Produced by WILL-TV
- Who Gets to Call it Art?: The Legend of Henry Geldzahler, 1935-1994, 2005. 80 minutes. DVD 709.7309046 G281w
- Wrightian’s Organic Architecture #2, 1991. 58 minutes. VIDREC 720.973W93Goff – Several houses are discussed; features Goff’s Struckus House