architecture

  • 9m 26s

    iglu Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit

    uploaded by: Nancy Mackin

    channel: Nancy Mackin

     Filmed in April 2016 with support of Health Canada's Climate Change and Health Program for Northern First Nations and Inuit Communities, this short film shows reconstruction of an iglu and qarmaq, for the purpose of understanding the ongoing importance of traditional dwellings for the health and safety of northern peoples. Dr.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 26-07-2016

  • 1m 31s

    Summer shelter workshop

    uploaded by: Nancy Mackin

    channel: Nancy Mackin

     This short video was the first stage of a year-long project investigating traditional shelters of the high Arctic. Although modern materials were employed, traditional methods were used such as tying the structure together and using rocks for foundation and to weight down the waterproof covering. Health Canada's Climate Change and Health Adaptation Program funded the project, led by Dr.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 26-07-2016

  • 9m 26s

    Inuit Architecture: Ancient wisdom, future survival

    uploaded by: Nancy Mackin

    channel: Kugluktuk | ᖁᕐᓗᖅᑐᖅ

     Inuit Architecture, including the iglu and qarmaq, continue to be useful in the north as survival shelters. Buildings from Inuit tradition are also important ways of knowing about snow and the land. This video was made with the support of Climate Change and Health Adaptation Program for Northern First Nations and Inuit Communities, Dr.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 04-07-2016

  • 1m 58s

    SELFLESS - Trailer -

    uploaded by: Stephen Rubin

    channel: SantaFe08

    SELFLESS, a film by the Pander Brothers, is an existential thriller about a self-absorbed architect who’s world collapses when his identity is stolen. Dylan Gray, a rising young star in the trendy ‘green’ architecture movement, is flying high from winning a prized high-rise commission when he unwittingly plants the seeds of his own destruction during a chance encounter with a deadly stranger.… Uqalimakkanirit

    uploaded date: 24-10-2008