A documentary about love of seduction and power ice cold passion starts october 8 on d, w. Ah ah, each been i, michelle, he, i actually became an architect because i thought right in line with bow house that im making a better wealthy. Its been my husband are close out on. I grew up in my grandparents house off and i thought that house is like tree this one until my mother tells me no. My people made them on medicine and then i wanted to down for dish, just to architects, build the world. We live it elegantly, uniquely masterfully. Hey, what are doing architecture . You do it to 100 percent . Oh not the tool to for on for a lot of responsibility. I can lose a great deal. Architecture is a tough field for women who built the inside and say, guessing the Decision Makers and those that give out the contract. We are mad with the Architecture Works on the base conditional framework, so to speak, to work in law hi deed the queen of curves, was one woman who broke through until her death in 2016. She desired structures that are 2nd to none. A deed is one of only 5 female architects who have received one of the sectors most important awards. The pritzky price, along with her div worth because you use a shima even for l and shelley, math, amera, and on like i dont. Thats 5 women in 43 years. There are more and better educated female architects than there are male architects. And yet only 5 percent of Architectural Firms around the world are run by women for a few years. Now, women have been coming to the forefront. Theyre not just fighting for commissions, theyre fighting for recognition. What determines the success of women and architecture, and thus of the structures in the world thats around us all. Whether theyre up in coming or already established with their own firms, working freelance or in administration. What are the working worlds like for these women . What battles do they face . What are their dreams . What drives them . How and why do they built . What does it mean to be an architect . Ah. Yeah, its been leaking. Im thinking a lie bigger and im a partner at the architect his office of barco light being out in berlin. Many regina liveing her is one of germanys best known female architects. Her buildings range from a kindergarden to industrial structures, all the way to pavilions that seemed to glide on air. Her latest project is the b hub in the berlin district of fredericks time, cried speck time for a site visit. That is at this building. Is this how silly cold was it a full, a kind of treatment. It belong to a glass boring factory when descending wont agree, but converse diss. And i think i see all this around here is super co raglin living. Just beyond that one, now i think myself on is of the home, is that up front as the homeless . Oh good, a great vacation for a great time to india. And on the other side, theres the espanol and then theres just the she, a length of the building. Its enormous genome. Mm. The b hub is a massive project by berlin Architectural Firm barco, liveing. Her, it has a total length of 300 meters, with a surface area of 47300 square meters, divided over 10 floors of office space. The facade folds like an accordion offset by horizontal bands of exposed concrete and vertical reinforcements of white fluted terra cotta tiles. It just stands there, tall and long can. You can look to see what these corners do, and with the layering that these elements mean. It doesnt look like one single long buildings. Instead its like 6 different buildings. And thats important with the length of 300 meters and from i mean of me. Architecture can do so much if it moves util. Theme it adds the bait bang out or i i, i, i, i, i think i just always find it amazing when you can stand somewhere up high in berlin. You tend to miss the hill, lisa, folks in southern germany. I used to, but i find it fascinating to see the city from on high again and again and also daughter regina liveing her was born in stuttgart in 1963 in a family with a definite flare for business to my. And it comes to thinking it was an adjustable, actually come from a Family Business in southern germany and this the business and played a big role in our lives. It gave us a sense of this entrepreneurial spirit. And thats similar in architecture. If you go on to have an Architect Firm and its a big one, then its important that you also have Business Management and leadership quality in order to keep the shop together actually. And i was really lucky that because i learned from when i was small and i so have it worked and perhaps i have a certain gene you could say to do this. So to think by the time she was 16, she knew she wanted to be an architect when she finished high school last night. And this is they can, i wanted to get away as fast as i could. I went out of this very protective environment like every shoot got girl at 1st i went to get one unit, but then i ended up in berlin and by chance. And that was like going abroad for someone from stuttgart. It felt like a foreign country liveing or winter berlins Technical University and took horses and Building Construction and structural physics. But that soon took her to even further places. And i applied in america and was accepted at harvard and ill admit i was nervous. Gabriel, and it is just, well, harvard is a very good school and it comes with a quite a reputation naturally me, but that pays off. There are fantastic teachers lacking math, but still they were mostly men on plots, didnt pay me far more men than women. What regina liveing her became acquainted with him in 19 eighties was no exception. While studying casting to her for had to do without heroines, she could use to orient herself. Her fellow male students didnt have this problem. Photocopy of i took option was always will a bow tie. He called me and local boucher had these thick glasses with dark frames and all student body. The men were divided into the ones who wore the glasses on. The ones who was both times talking on do you then you knew right away who their role models were and they emulated them. I for the women students didnt have anything like that said you stood in to nish. Oh, the been a risk is researching the history of women in architecture. The experience is described by casting do herfer are of no surprise to her. Busy that was systematic in history, in the history of architecture in the profession. And we know from our research how many women were marginalized and how many works by women were not documented in the 20th century. And if they were documented, am i still got the credit him . As an architectural student, shavani chakrabarti received a book about eileen gray as a gift. During a seminar trip, she visited grays cult status villa in 2006. She came away deeply impressed as well at all miles and im back then it was just about a ruin and i was able to get in the house. And i had it in my head was because i had studied her so much and arguable. And you exactly how things looked back then, you know, even though a lot of it was in disrepair, but that was a great experience for shavani chakrabarti, the visit to eileen grays villa was important, decisive even in france will be nick for people that when women have to few role models from the start than an element of identification is, methinks, therefore its easier for men. After all, in the whole of architecture education and planning funds, there are men and they dominate the whole thing. Thats why they can identify well with everything in and about this field or at least much earlier than women can. Hong at the end of the 1980s at Harvard Regina liveing or met her liter partner and husband frank barco. Once i had my how the degree, i thought id finally get to the city of my dreams, new york city, but then there was an economic crisis, and the berlin wall came down. My 1st i said rome, but then lets just go to berlin now. So we pitched our tents here in 1993. It was very modest. We just had a studio apartment. And we said, we try working freelance. We didnt really have anything at all. There was just a name plate on the outside of the building that said barcode i, being an architect, and thats how it started. Their breakthrough came in 2001 when they were commissioned to build the potsdam biosphere for Germanys National guard and show the gargantuan structure of concrete and glass provided a home for more than 20000 tropical plants. Monumental in style. It was located on a former military firing range at the citys edge. More prestigious projects followed, including one for the southern german Family Business. Trump. Well then i was a no time we were being allowed to build in berlin on the most very decides already different neighborhoods and of course, surroundings play a really big role in those cases. I had the central train station in the rope, a city, for example, you would do Different Things than you would in the crowds bag district where you find well developed quite bag loft architecture, loft stretches or imprints. So a bag in a back courtyard on corvette architect helga block stores. Life story was filled with challenges. Now shes conquered, the art of building humanity vacate ems out. What does she place . You know how people go for life varies greatly depending on your situation from the start. My mother raised 3 girls on her own and our circumstances growing up were extremely precarious. One option that we didnt even dare think of was that all 3 of us could attend university. My name is helga block store deluxe, and i run a firm in berlin. Im also a professor of Building Construction at the Technical University of franchise at pitt contract bookstore made her way through art and university commissioned projects until she became self employed in 2013. At 1st, she made a name for herself by re conditioning, existing structures, like the house calls were renovated, one family house from the 900 sixties, with a gable roof or the house for jose in northern berlin. The contrast with regina lighting or is Major Projects could hardly be any greater. They said a mood their distinctive and tend towards the abstract. Thats what makes blocked or st building stand out. In 2020, she took part in a competition of, of im are based organization. The classic shift on her entry was a temporary structure made of plywood and birch bark to bo, of god was a 2 sang from and i was in the beginning so to speak. Was to build an innovative structure of wood from, from the start the contract and made it clear that i could experiment men in come, how good blocks dark developed the berkin house as a modern light colored addition to the existing historic walls of groups as borkin, heisen which dated back to 1778. It was only a few 100 meters away from the plan site in weimar. Dennis in monday flag in the hope and his 5th of apps is always the question when you are in a competition. How much does the task relate to reality . Do you try right away to get everything right . A tv or is there a type of provocative openness in the task . And the way its presented the tense, more to raise questions hung her for moved. The play of shapes and materials is very important to her design. Regina lighting is Architectural Office is in a real korean in the western part of berlin, and occupies the several lessons adding was born causing all this is em. Building materials are something that play a really big role in our office on there are things i thought that recur again. And again, if theres an interest, a leitmotif that shows out repeatedly and is reconsidered and re conceived again, and again, may tell us why this thing can show up as a metal lap on a large roof of the dime, the building. Yes, it can be transferred to a much smaller scale and this time in wood for a serpentine and then at the house, id say because its permanent, there. These leaves and the lights are drawn in and reflected. Sometimes it looks like a u, f o, but actually it almost looks as if it were always there really can a project be realised incomplete, accordance with the architects concept. Competitions are often the eye of the needle. That designs must pastor i know site of course on the one hand as the opportunity to get commissions without having to go to the rotary club or golf club. Awful boys regular. The lucia has put her mark and berlins architecture like no other. After working as an architect and zurich in vienna, she was called to berlin in 2007. As the director of urban urban planning, she was responsible until july 2021 for competitions in the city and was a member of many selective committees. Anyone who wanted to work on important projects had to cross her path at some point is just so busy me and behind. Oh, its true that i dont just write a book or express a thought sun and afterwards its there in stone. You were to glass or which has a little glass chiseled in one thing. So i really cant allow myself to make any mistakes. And i just have to select the best project to play out. So who competitions are big opportunities for smaller Architectural Firms, but their controversial normans act ever fell at if could to put it relatively sensually. Its almost impossible for new officers to take heart because the standards of the way they are in every team that you have to do for the competition. You have to have a built already. Bottom was of wittman. Im glad to play actin. If you get an invitation, lets say for a town hall, lots in, youre supposed to have already designed 10 town homes. Hows that supposed to work on now . And then youve got to show how much money you have that a model of a few or any number of other things. Thats a disadvantage for. Well, the laughter, diversity and creativity just ends up going by the wayside. And the fantasy have heard from mr. Bay, him monta is, is saw, its likely true that most ingenious project architecturally thick isnt the one that wins kenny eyes to quake giving up a few. But for those that have to implement it, and its the best choice, the face. They why the skipped the, theres a wonderful series of discussions called aint position with architecture. I in them theres an interview with catherine who just that, but it was the director of urban planning and basil of dec fires. And in order to get out of the exclusivity of the golf club situation, said the image of this city is of that act great. When elegance versa that we should really open all commissions for public reading, roughly every one on or, and without any kind of eligibility restrictions along with us. As you can imagine, id very much like to propose that to for our lucia, just that she reads it and understand what it can mean for a city that my name, my name is on rica icon. Im an architect and architectural intermediary, or rica shorn was working for berlin City Government in 1990. 1 construction was booming. Buyers were hotly bidding for the many empty spaces and the unified city. It was a matter of millions or rica icons boss was responsible for awarding contracts. And because of this was the target of a deadly attack that still remains unsolved to this day. After his death, she left the sector shore and has maintained her links to architecture and is demanding a radical reconsideration of how contracts are given to promote the art of Building Design and diversity. Even to me that id like to see competition. Competition show how diverse the world can be when different people plan things and take different approaches. Young people, the elderly women, men, students, then you can get so many different ideas. Everyone has a different perspective in the hands of fatal neighborhood. You can see whats being created back then people really got involved and tagging them rica, Insurance Office is located in berlin. Tons of futile after world war 2, hundreds of thousands of departments needed to be built in in berlin. Shattered by war in 1957, the government in the western part of the city held the International Building exhibition known as inter bout for short. International architects were invited to design modern residential complexes. They are Still Standing today. Ah, the process from concept to contract is long in rocky. When regina liveing her and her team are invited to a competition, the firms are very own competition. Department goes to work dylan, i glad answer, and we were invited to take us in a competition for a sighted alexander plaques at the 1st Tall Building and we had, and i still think this to day a brilliant design is spent hearse place, went to frank gary with a miserable hum central, i think its catastrophic, truly. The 2nd place went to our friend and acquaintance. Young. Klaus and design was very good. We came in a 3rd and we was was it oh disappointed because 1st place was just given to an architect, frank gary who just has this big important name. And that was really a disappointment on really is disappointing. Is that you really cant lay yourself underestimate these competition, having so much of your life blood gets bent on them so much energy, then you really have to pull yourself together and somehow keep going. So that its not all for nothing. And so much thought goes into it that madness god, weve done so many competitions and weve won lots of them. But those designs dont get built either. Its just tedious. Sometimes it is natural the way it is. Its part of the deal, and we just got to do it, emma. After that set back, she went on to another major project. She was invited to join in the competition for the new a stroll tower and want it done that and that wasnt just a consolation prize fight. It was just so crazy that we want it after we had this disappointment with alexander plus. We uncorked 3 bottles of champagne. Its true. It was such a buzz like walking on the cloud muscles. V of no, i can. Where berlins 1st skyscrapers, the astral tower is said to be 176 meters tall. The citys tallest building, it will have 45. 00 floors, and they total surface area of 75000 square meters. There will be 800. 00 hotel rooms and offices in it, plus an event center of parking garage, a restaurant, and a spot. The towers facade will be made of striking bleeds, of aluminum. And it doing a competition where you pull all nighters and have a wonderful idea where its apparently been understood what youre achieving with these concepts and giving Something Back to the world. Helga blocks dorff accepted the dare and submitted her beer can house to the compet