Buildings for Society
Buildings for Society
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Buildings for Society

2026
1 season
3 episodes
Documentary

How can we build architectural environments that help children learn, provide dignity and protection to the most vulnerable, and help offenders rehabilitate? This series looks at new schools, prisons, and homeless shelters whose architects have used innovative techniques to create buildings that help society.

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  • School Architecture

    1.School Architecture

    08-02-202626m

    How can architects build spaces where people coexist peacefully and feel good? This episode focuses on schools. In Austria, in Denmark, and in France newly built educational establ...

  • Homeless Shelters

    2.Homeless Shelters

    15-02-202626m

    How can we build spaces for the most vulnerable in society? In Vienna, Frankfurt and Lyon, there are building projects that have been designed for homeless people to provide shelte...

  • Prison Architecture

    3.Prison Architecture

    22-02-202626m

    How can we build environments which enclose without being punitive? A look at new prisons in Switzerland and Germany where architects have created light, welcoming spaces in order...

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