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Buildings for Society

Buildings for Society

2026•26m•Documentary
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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.

Cordula Echterhoff · Director

StatusReturning Series
Runtime26m
LanguageDE
First Air DateFeb 8, 2026

Episodes

Episode 1 - School ArchitectureE126m

School Architecture

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 establishments with innovative architecture are transforming how children learn and how teachers teach.

Feb 8, 2026

Episode 2 - Homeless SheltersE226m

Homeless Shelters

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 shelter, dignity, protection and community.

Feb 15, 2026

Episode 3 - Prison ArchitectureE326m

Prison Architecture

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 to aide the rehabilitation process.

Feb 22, 2026

Actors

Edda Fischer

Narrator (voice)

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