Completed Projects Projects in Production
• DNA - Design and Architecture
on KCRW.com
Episode 2: Richard Neutra VDL House
• DNA - Design and Architecture
on KCRW.com
Episode 1: Ray Kappe House
• True To Form
• Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future
• Most Honorable Son
• Michigan Voices of the War - Excerpt 1
• Michigan Voices of the War - Excerpt 2
• The Return of the Guardian Building
• Design Intervention - The Work of
Father Curry, AIA
• Lustron: The House America’s
Been Waiting For
• Camana Bay Commercial
 
• The United States Embassy in Berlin
• David Schwartz Architects Online Exhibition
• Indomitable
• Lost in Hawaii
• Up from the Ashes
• Between Earth and Sky

Projects in Development
• New Music Detroit

DNA - Design and Architecture on KCRW
2008 - Webcast on KCRW.com
Episode 2: Richard Neutra VDL House

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Each web program for KCRW’s web site looks at a favorite building in Los Angeles. Produced for KCRW’s DnA program and hosted by Frances Anderton. [ link ]

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DNA - Design and Architecture on KCRW
2008 - Webcast on KCRW.com
Episode 1: Ray Kappe House

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Each web program for KCRW’s web site looks at a favorite building in Los Angeles. Produced for KCRW’s DnA program and hosted by Frances Anderton.
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True To Form
2007 – 30 minutes

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The life and work of Hawaii’s mid-century modern architect, Vladimir Ossipoff, is examined in this documentary produced for the Honolulu Academy of Arts.
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Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future
2006 – 16 minutes

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Screening within the Eero Saarinen Exhibition at the National Building Museum. This documentary chronicles the life and work of one of the most prolific, controversial and influential architects of postwar America, Eero Saarinen.
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Most Honorable Son
2007 - 60 minutes

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Most Honorable Son tells the exploits of America's first Japanese-American war hero, Ben Kuroki. A national PBS release.
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Michigan Voices of the War - Excerpt 1
2007 – 30 minutes
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Heroism, tragedy and even humor make up this companion piece to Ken Burns’ The War series. Commissioned by Detroit Public TV, six WWII veterans from Michigan tell their tales in their own words in this powerful documentary.

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Michigan Voices of the War - Excerpt 2
2007 – 30 minutes
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Heroism, tragedy and even humor make up this companion piece to Ken Burns’ The War series. Commissioned by Detroit Public TV, six WWII veterans from Michigan tell their tales in their own words in this powerful documentary.

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The Return of the Guardian Building
2004 - 15 minutes

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This documentary short tells the story of Detroit’s deco masterpiece. Viewed in the newly renovated Retail Promenade of the Guardian Building, this film has become an essential focal point attracting pedestrians looking to tour Detroit’s “architectural jewel.”

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Design Intervention - the Work of Father Curry, AIA
2003 – 7 minutes

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This moving documentary short tells the story of Father Terrence Curry, Jesuit priest and award-winning architect, who connects streetwise Bronx teenagers with suburban Fordham University students in an effort to design and build a community center on the precise spot where a crackhouse once stood.

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Lustron: The House America’s Been Waiting For
2003 - 60 minutes

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Lustron tells the story of inventor Carl Strandlund and his unique vision to solve the post-WWII housing crisis by mass-producing houses on an automotive assembly line and exposes the conspiracy to take over a venture that many claimed would be the General Motors of housing. A national PBS release.
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Camana Bay Commercial
2007 - 60/30 second spots

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The United States Embassy in Berlin
2008 - 7 minutes
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Screening within an exhibition in Berlin for the July 4, 2008 opening of the new American Embassy in Berlin. Located on one of the most historic sites in Germany, between the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate, the American Embassy in Berlin took 14 years to complete.
 

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David Schwartz Architects Online Exhibition
2008
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Multiple short video pieces about the office and work of David M. Schwartz Architects will be shown in an online exhibition for the National Building Museum.

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Indomitable
2009 - 60 minutes
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Did Dr. Raymond Damadian invent Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) or not? Well-known scientists claim he did little, if anything, of importance. Dr. Damadian counters that there would be no MRI without him and he has the patents to prove it. Indomitable follows Damadian, an avowed Young Earth Creationist, as he confronts the culture of conventional science, sues medical behemoth General Electric, and pursues the Nobel Prize.

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Lost in Hawaii
2009 - 60 minutes
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We follow Honolulu native Lorraine Minatoishi on a tour through Hawaii as she seeks to understand her own past and if the old ways of Japanese Buddhism in Hawaii can be saved.

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Up from the Ashes
2009 - 60 minutes
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A public library is built from decimated Ash trees, killed by the Emerald Ash Borer, making a statement about sustainability and localism.

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Between Earth and Sky
2009 - 60 minutes
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Feature documentary about the life and work of mid-century modern architect Eero Saarinen.

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New Music Detroit
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On Labor Day weekend 2008, Ian and his fellow Detroit Symphony Orchestra members moonlighting as New Music Detroit will be at the center of a 12-hour music marathon. We follow New Music Detroit as they struggle to not only rehearse but develop a music lineup that pulls together artists spanning electronic, noise, minimalist, and new classical music genres.

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