A new doc­u­men­tary film, archi­CUL­TURE, is in the works about the lives of stu­dent archi­tects and the cul­ture sur­round­ing the daily life of design stu­dents. The film (trailer) is a grass­roots project cur­rently seek­ing money to finance the project.

The Film Synopsis:

Archi­cul­ture is a fea­ture length doc­u­men­tary that exam­ines con­tem­po­rary issues sur­round­ing the realm of archi­tec­ture through the per­spec­tive of uni­ver­sity stu­dents during their final thesis semes­ter. The film fol­lows the pro­tag­o­nists through the evo­lu­tion of their respec­tive senior thesis projects and the inter­nal and exter­nal con­flicts each stu­dent faces during this intense year-​long process. Inter­views with family, friends, sig­nif­i­cant others, indus­try pro­fes­sion­als, archi­tects, and design pro­fes­sors are woven through­out the film to create a story that builds an inti­mate con­nec­tion between the char­ac­ters and the audi­ence. The emo­tional sto­ry­line will reveal a breadth of expe­ri­ences rang­ing from the 4AM dead­line dash, to the ful­fill­ing sen­sa­tion of grad­u­a­tion. The film pro­vides view­ers with an in-​depth look into the cre­ative yet com­pet­i­tive process of archi­tec­tural edu­ca­tion while also depict­ing cur­rent issues such as the role of archi­tec­ture in soci­ety, the dis­pro­por­tion of gender and race within the pro­fes­sion, and envi­ron­men­tally con­scious design. The story is struc­tured in a way that chrono­log­i­cally fol­lows the stu­dents’ devel­op­ment of their theses and con­tin­u­ally builds sus­pense as the final cri­tique looms. The film con­cludes at the stu­dents’ final thesis pre­sen­ta­tion as they find them­selves on the brink of their adult and pro­fes­sional lives, and the clo­sure of their adolescence.