1. (2 films, 2 discs) Marc-Henri Wajnberg, director. Oscar Niemeyer: Un arquitecto Comprometido/Oscar Niemeyer, un architecte engagé dans le siècle. Belgium, 2000, text by Josep M. Botey, Portuguese with Spanish subtitles, 60 min.Geraldo Motta, director. Lucio Costa: Brasilia y la Utopía Moderna/The Line: Lucio Costa and the Modern Utopia/O risco: Lucio Costa e a utopia moderna. Brazil, 2003, text by Josep M. Botey, Portuguese with Spanish subtitles, 76 min.2. Daryl Dellora, director. Jørn Utzon: El Límite de lo Posible/The Edge of the Possible: Jørn Utzon and the Sydney Opera House. Australia, 1998, text by Rafael Moneo, English with Spanish subtitles, 56 min.3. Nathaniel Kahn, director. Louis I. Kahn: Mi Arquitecto/Louis I. Kahn, My Architect: A Son's Journey. USA, 2004, text by Antonio Juarez, English with Spanish subtitles, 116 min.4. (2 parts, 2 discs) Manu Rewal, director. Le Corbusier en la India, 1a Parte: Ahmedabad y El Capitolio de Chandigarh/Le Corbusier en Inde, 1re partie: Ahmedabad et Chandigarh. Le Corbusier en la India, 2a parte: El Capitolio de Chandigarh/Le Corbusier in India, 2nd part: The Capitol of Chandigarh. India/France, 2000, text by Josep Quetglas and M. Cecilia O'Byrne, English and French with Spanish subtitles, 52 and 48 min.5. Mirjam von Arx, director. Norman Foster: Construir el Gherkin/Building the Gherkin. Switzerland, 2000–2005, text by Luis Fernández Galiano, English with Spanish subtitles, 90 min.6. Fredrik Gertten, director. Santiago Calatrava: El Socialista, el Arquitecto y la Turning Torso/Sossen, Arkitekten och det Skruvade Huset. Sweden, 2005, text by Josep Maria Montaner, Swedish and English with Spanish subtitles, 60 min.7. Arun Khopkar, director. Charles Correa: Volumen Cero/Charles Correa: Volume Zero. India, 2009, text by Joseph Rykwert and Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, English with Spanish subtitles, 58 min.8. Markus Heidingsfelder and Min Tesch, directors. Rem Koolhaas: Más que un Arquitecto/Rem Koolhaas: A Kind of Architect. Germany, 2005, text by Eduardo Arroyo, German, English, and Dutch with Spanish subtitles, 97 min.9. Hartmut Bitomsky, director. Hans Scharoun: Arquitectura Imaginaria/Imaginäre Architektur: Der Baumeister Hans Scharoun. Germany, 1993, text by José Morales, German with Spanish subtitles. 65 min.10. Christoph Schaub and Michael Shindhelm, directors. Herzog & De Meuron: En China: Nido de Pájaros/Bird's Nest: Herzog and De Meuron in China. Switzerland, 2008, text by Alejandro Zaera-Polo, German, English, Chinese with Spanish subtitles, 88 min.11. Murray Grigor, director. Sir John Soane: Arquitecto Ingles, Legado Americano/Sir John Soane: An English Architect, An American Legacy. USA, 2005, text by Juan Navarro Baldeweg, English with Spanish subtitles, 62 min.12. Rax Rinnekangas, director. Konstantín Mélnikov: La Casa de Mélnikov, La Utopía de Moscú/The Melnikov House, A Moscow Utopia. Finland, 2007, text by Ginés Garrido. Finnish with Spanish subtitles, 58 min.13. Rax Rinnekangas, director. Alvar Aalto: Villa Mairea: La Esencia de una Casa/Villa Mairea, The Essence of a House. Finland, 2009, text by Antón Capitel, Finnish with Spanish subtitles, 50 min.14. Rax Rinnekangas, director. Tadao Ando: La Casa Koshino/Tadao Ando: The Koshino House. Finland, 2009, text by Alberto Campos Baeza, Finnish with Spanish subtitles, 59 min.15. (2 films, 2 discs) Gustavo Cortés Bueno, director. Enric Miralles: Aprendizajes del arquitecto. France/Spain, 2000, 60 min.Bigas Luna Studio, director. Enric Miralles: Estado de las Obras. Spain, 2002, text by Benedetta Tagliabue and Josep M. Rovira, 35 min.16. Gabriel Petit and Claude Haim, directors. Antonio Gaudí: Un Arquitecto Mesiánico/Une architecte mésianique Antoni Gaudí: The Messianic Architect. France/Spain 2007/2010, text by Daniel Giralt-Miracle, 52 min.Forthcoming17. Marc Petitjean. Renzo Piano: Visita de obra/Renzo piano, architect au long course. France, 1999, text by Peter Buchanan, 52 min.18. Timothy Sakamoto. Richard Neutra: VDL Casa Experimental/VDL Research House. USA, 2007/10, text by Juan Coll-Barreu, 40 min.The documentary collection presented by the Fundación Caja de Arquitectos of Madrid in 2008 comprises films devoted to architecture and architects. The main aim of this new program is the dissemination of films in the field of architecture that have not come out on DVD in Spain. The high documentary quality and architectural interest of these films has been confirmed by previous recognition and in some cases by prizes awarded in international film festivals. Each release contains additional material, such as images, lectures, interviews, and audio material that contextualize the film within the current architectural scene. Each also comes with a booklet containing a biography, list of prizes, synopses, plans, and graphics, as well as a printed and filmed commentary by a Spanish architect whose work relates to the subject of the documentary. Films are continually being added to this series.The great strength of such a collection is to offer insight into the lives and works of architects. The parallel risk is to reinforce stereotypes. It is surely significant that in all the documentaries in the collection reference is made to only two women architects, Denise Scott Brown and Aino Aalto, and that both appear as background figures-half hidden behind their respective companions and professional colleagues. In the film on Villa Mairea it is somewhat tendentiously asserted, in passing, that Aino Aalto laid out the kitchen and the garden, reducing her contribution to these two areas.1Despite its scant treatment of women architects, the Arquia collection contains extraordinary films that allow us to live the human experience of being an architect in different geographical and cultural environments. The documentary Jørn Utzon. El Límite de lo Posible is particularly moving. In it we are privy to the Danish architect's difficulties in creating the magnificent architecture of the Sydney Opera House in his studio on the other side of the globe (Figure 1). At the time of the competition, Utzon was presented as a visionary architect capable of reinforcing the identity of a young country like Australia with powerful architecture. And yet during the subsequent development and execution of the building, the architect would come under relentless attack due to the jealousy of the engineering profession and the xenophobia of local architects, and these forces would get him removed from the project in 1966. The film stresses how Utzon found the answer to the roof structure, something the engineers had been incapable of resolving in five years of work. This sparked off the problems that were to come, since in order to safeguard their position not only did the engineers betray him, but, according to the architect's collaborators, they raised doubts about him to the client and even