...are very imperative, as it is impossible to have them, to have exposure to the architectural style of the whole world at once, they can rely on movies and documentaries for that.

Movies for architects

...documentaries and movies for architects:

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Though this movie is about a visionary architect who leaves his wife to accept an architecture project in New York, things don’t go as he planned them. In this movie, the architect struggles to fit into professional norms without losing integrity and individualism.

The Fountainhead (1943) – Movie

This movie’s set in the 1970s, which is about final year architecture students of School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, a leading architecture institute in India. This movie shows struggles of Annie, who is repeating his fifth year for the fourth time in the institutes. He spends hours of his time daydreaming about social upliftment. The movie was part of the autobiography of Arundhati Roy (Indian Author) recounting her own experiences as an architecture student.

In which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989) – Movie

If you want to see smouldering 1960s architecture, style, and attitude, watches this series. You will get a glimpse of how the architecture used to be and how it has transformed since then.

Mad Men (2007-2015) – Series

This movie is about a doctor basically who moves into a skyscraper, but that is not the point. In this movie, you will see Brutalist buildings, and approach of brutalism to the architecture.

High rise (2015) – Movie

This movie is about an architect, who wants to create something for himself without considering the client. The main character is hired by a couple to design a house but he ends up deviating from it. This is a portrayal of architects from the perspective of the people who hire them.

The architect (2016) – Movie

...Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio If you ever wonder, how architecture and architects affect society, no other thing can give you a better perspective than Citizen Architect. It includes interviews Samuel Mockbee, founder of Rural Studio. This movie reveals how architecture students cross the threshold of poverty, race, education and good citizenship to make the world a better place for everyone.

Citizen Architect: 

Norman Foster is considered as the world’s most sought architect and has produced the finest post-modern buildings to date. This documentary will give you his an insight towards the improvement of space and then that leading to improvement in the quality of life through just design.

How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster?

How the interaction of a building with the surrounding environment is important and it’s importance towards the architectural act. If you want some understanding about this relationship, you must watch this documentary.

Philip Johnson: Diary of an Eccentric Architect

If you want to see ultimate fantasy houses of one of the smallest continent of the world, this is your thing. The host of the show visits the most luxurious homes, which are extraordinary. Greek-inspired beach homes, extravagant loft designs, 6m wide screen windows for maximum visibility, you name it. You will not be disappointed with the views while watching the show. You will step into a dream, every time you watch this show.

Unreal Estate

Millau Viaduct is a cable-stayed, tallest bridge in the world, with a structural height of 343 meters. It is a part of Franco-British partnership, built in southern France. This documentary covers all the aspects of this bridge from materials used to its a structural concept. As this has been ranked as one of the great engineering achievements of all time, designed by the English Norman Foster architect and French structural engineer Michel Virlogeux.

The Bridge in the Sky: Millau Viaduct

This show actually covers the thought process of engineers, masons and labours; while building medieval castles. According to the need of the hour, what was required, and how it was done, it’s all here from Defence construction to structural engineering. So, dive into history with this visual treat.

Castle Builders

This documentary is about one of the most legendary architects Louis Kahn. His son and director Nathaniel Kahn try to understand his father’s work and his relations with art after his father, noted architect Louis Kahn, and was bankrupt, found dead in the bathroom of a New York station. The film shows both architect’s works as well as his personal life.

My Architect (2003) – Documentary

If you want to know about the life and career of one of the greatest architectural photographer Julius Shulman, you must watch this documentary. Experts believe he was responsible for bringing architectural modernist movement to light. Frank Lloyd Wright, John Lautner, Frank Gehry work of such legendary architects was promoted by Shulman’s work and that helped in shaping their promising careers.

Visual Acoustics (2008) – Documentary

This documentary explores the different prospects of architectural education through the eyes of the students. You will see a few young architecture students being followed to examine the different aspects of teaching in architecture. Interactions with these students and their reactions help in illustrating all the challenges, faced by aspiring architect in today’s world.

Archiculture (2011) – Documentary

Do you wonder sometimes “If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?”. If yes, you must watch this documentary as it captures six iconic and very different building talking for themselves plus it is entirely in 3D.

Cathedrals of Culture (2014) – Documentary

This was actually tribute to one of the world’s prominent architect Charles Correa, using live footage, extended interview with the architect itself, his diagrams and animation. Moreover, it deals with his work, ideas and views of this pronounced architect.

Volume Zero: Documentary on Charles Correa (2015) – Documentary

...or where of architecture heading towards in, here are few Architecture movies you can watch.1. Minority report (2002): This movie shows Washington DC on a whole new level with the amalgamation of all the technology.2. Cloud Atlas (2012): Even this is about the future city of Neo Seoul, though the storyline revolves around six individuals of various generations, who are trying to explore the impacts human actions.3. Hunger games: catching fire (2013): now this movie is about a fictional nation of Panem, it’s Capitol. We have to focus on its Capitol and its modernist approach.

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The shift from product-market-fit to growth disrupts far too many promising startups.
Companies at every stage can learn how to create effective, replicable, and durable product development systems using a few tactics.

Creating scalable systems

There is such a thing as startup puberty and it occurs when your product starts to gather momentum. A startup may be so busy working on getting to this stage that they are caught off guard and may not be ready for the change. The most important changes for a product:
<ul>
<li>You are no longer your customer. Once you hit product market-fit, you need more data as you can no longer reasonably represent all your customers.</li>
<li>You have the ability to test much more. At this point, you can start optimizing because you're pulling enough users or customers to correlate product tweaks with behavior.</li>
</ul>

Crossing the chasm

New needs mean you need more people. To set people up for success, you need to make your product and engineering teams modular. Then you can split up problems that people can work with independently.
As you grow, your leverage will be in having many autonomously led teams, working side by side. This will enable you to scale easily later.

Modular teams

The idea is that product management can no longer say what they think users want. They need to predict what outcome a feature will have.
In the beginning, you don't have the data you need to do this. Your company, in itself, is your hypothesis. As you start to grow, your ability to make educated guesses becomes the core and fuel for making your product better.

Hypothesis-Driven Product Management

As a company matures, three major areas of product development change:
<ul>
<li>How you generate ideas</li>
<li>How you execute those ideas</li>
<li>How you continually build on those ideas.</li>
</ul>

Areas of change

Don't think you can continue to relate to your customer. Instead, make a list of the outcomes you want, then make a guess what will get you there based on data and research.
<ul>
<li><ul>
<li>If you don't have the volume of data, start with qualitative feedback from user surveys or testing.*</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Use competitive analysis. Have your competitors achieved a similar outcome to the one you like? How can you build on their ideas?</li>
<li>Interview people who you want to have as your target audience. What do they use that's similar? Why might they not choose a product like yours?</li>
</ul>
Once you have some working hypotheses, you can start quantitatively measuring results to drive future brainstorming.

Generating ideas

It is helpful when you brainstorm to separate idea generation from idea evaluation. Write down every idea. Then trim your list by applying the feedback you've received through user tests, surveys, and other inputs. Prioritize this filtered list:
<ul>
<li>How important is the outcome this idea will serve?</li>
<li>What is the likelihood of success?</li>
</ul>

Prioritize the distilled list

After you brainstorm, you may have many initiatives. After you hit product-market fit, you need to allocate responsibility across teams and empower them to work without the leadership knowing everything. Thematic org areas include:
<ul>
<li>Core product: How to make typical use of the product better.</li>
<li>Signup experience: How to bring more people into the product.</li>
<li>Internal tools: How to optimize the way you're working with infrastructure.</li>
<li>Content: What content do you present to users? How?</li>
<li>Community: How to set up communities for success.</li>
<li>Channels: Where and how to engage with users outside the core product.</li>
<li>Monetization: How to sustain what you're doing.</li>
</ul>

Modular execution

The CEO should cede a large amount of control. The CEO should shift from caring about the design of the product to focusing of the design of the organization.
<ul>
<li>Once a founder or CEO gives up the need to know everything, its easier to reorganize along thematic lines.</li>
<li>Each team needs to be able to drive themselves forward with their own point people.</li>
<li>Focus on handing out prioritites, not tasks. Then let your people be creative about their own execution.</li>
<li>A holistic focus is recommended over a pure tech focus.</li>
</ul>

Give up control

The transition needs to happen when:
<ul>
<li>The CEO or co-founders can't contain everything in their heads and don't know what's happening in various parts of the product.</li>
<li>You're trying to expand the product, which requires more work to understand users.</li>
<li>Existing staff members are responsible for too many different areas.</li>
</ul>

When the transition is necessary

<ul>
<li>Appoint a business owner for each thematic area who is responsible for driving KPIs, managing stakeholders, and communicating changes.</li>
<li>Minimize existing cross-team dependencies.</li>
<li>Set quarterly operational targets. Tie individuals' OKRs to objectives.</li>
<li>Have the founders or executives direct the smaller thematic teams by setting minimal but big company-wide objectives, and allocating resources.</li>
<li>Continually reevaluate where there are bottlenecks in the system and address them.</li>
</ul>

Initiating the transition

As your company matures, ensure to appoint someone to care about the holistic experience.
<ul>
<li>This person should be focused on collecting and communicating data coming out of experiments, and</li>
<li>Guiding everyone to build features and run tests that connect to company goals.</li>
</ul>
If you don't have proper communication on your product team, many individuals may pursue their own goals for their own feature, causing a sprawl of your product.

The impact of product ops

With the growth of your organization, consistently message the same things again and again. Templates ingrain this practice.
For instance, at Reddit, whenever you're about to run a test, you already have the format of an email to explain what you're testing. The template consists of fields where you'll insert the results.

Using templates

<ul>
<li>Pick only a few hard-and-fast rules.</li>
<li>Provide autonomy between firm commitments.</li>
<li>Be clear about the role of product ops.</li>
<li>Just start. Rather start something in ops than to have a master plan and the process figured out. Start light.</li>
</ul>

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