67 mins |
Rated
E Exempt
PRECEDED BY the short, Tūrama (25min).
Unexpected Modernism is the story of Samuel G. Wiener and William B. Wiener—brothers with different mothers—who were raised by their business-minded father in Shreveport, Louisiana. Fellows of the American Institute of Architects, the siblings’ early work was fairly traditional but a 1920s visit to Europe’s Bauhaus design school inspired them to approach architecture with a more innovative and artist-led vision. Between them, they produced one of the earliest and largest clusters of modernist buildings in America, slowly turning their deep south hometown of Shreveport into a beacon of modern architecture.
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PRECEDED BY the short, Tūrama (25min).
Unexpected Modernism is the story of Samuel G. Wiener and William B. Wiener—brothers with different mothers—who were raised by their business-minded father in Shreveport, Louisiana. Fellows of the American Institute of Architects, the siblings’ early work was fairly traditional but a 1920s visit to Europe’s Bauhaus design school inspired them to approach architecture with a more innovative and artist-led vision. Between them, they produced one of the earliest and largest clusters of modernist buildings in America, slowly turning their deep south hometown of Shreveport into a beacon of modern architecture.