A 59-minute love letter to why buildings are basically just fancy fishbowls now.
Accentuating the effects of space, light and structure, glass has become an architectural staple that encourages transparency and visibility throughout a variety of landscapes. After its role in the last century's call to a radical new architecture and urban life, glass architecture is today more ubiquitous than ever.
Cinematography
Gorgeously filmed glass structures that'll ruin regular buildings for you.
Direction
Michael Blackwood treats curtain walls like movie stars.
Director
Michael Blackwood
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This doc dropped right before the 2008 financial crash, making its utopian glass optimism feel almost tragically quaint.
Diller and Scofidio's own blurred-glass projects (like the ICA Boston) embody the tension the film explores—transparency as performance, not truth.
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