If You Build It

Two teachers. Ten students. One epic homework assignment.

7.0/10

2013

85 min

Documentary

Overview

A year in the life of one of America's most innovative classrooms where students design & build to transform their hometown community. The film follows Emily Pilloton and Matt Miller as they teach the fundamentals of design, architecture and construction to a class of high school juniors in rural North Carolina.

Watch Now

If You Build It

Overview

More Like This

Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos

Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City

Voices of Muslim Women from the US South

Dancing Before the Moon

The Whole Gritty City

Nebraska's Capitol Masterpiece

Cologne Cathedral: The French Cathedral on the Rhine

Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future

Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy

The UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You to See

And Then We Heard Shouts and Cries

Memories of Origin: Hiroshi Sugimoto

Architecture of Infinity

The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat

The Hermits

The Power of Utopia: Living with Le Corbusier in Chandigarh

Age of Learning

Krivoarbatsky 12

Writing Life – Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students

Sotsgorod: Cities for Utopia