SAT, MAY 4 / 2 pm
Directed by Rikke Diemer
2013, Denmark, 35 min
* Danish w/English subtitles
Followed by a panel discussion with Peter Sampson, PSA Associates.
When Block P was completed in Nuuk in 1966, it was the largest residential building and a symbol of modern development in Greenland. But the 5-storey and 200-meter property on Great Plain in the middle of Nuuk was also for many the symbol of a failed policy of centralization.
PLAYS WITH
Design Innovations for Canadian Settlements / Directed by Bruce Mackay, 1976, Canada, 17 min / A film about innovative housing and community design as a way to conserve energy that examines two planned mining towns in Quebec and Manitoba and solar-heated homes in Ontario and PEI.
Donation in memory of Ernie Walter, Architect
