The film compares two museums: the Museum of Art in Ein Harod, Israel, which Samuel Bickels built there in 1948, and The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, built by Renzo Piano in 1986. At the request of Dominique de Menil, Bickel's method of guiding the light was adopted by Piano.
Born 1948 in Achim near Bremen;
since 1973 freelance filmmaker, visual artist, DOP, author, publisher and producer in Germany and the USA;
member of the German Academy of Arts
Filmography
2002/03 Goff in der Wüste
2006/07 Schindlers Häuser
2011 Parabeton – Pier Luigi Nervi und Römischer Beton
2012 Auguste Perret in Frankreich und Algerien
2013 The Airstrip, Aufbruch der Moderne, Teil III