What It Takes to Make a Home
2019, English. Directed by Daniel Schwartz.
What does it mean to live in the city without a place you can call your own? What role can architects have in addressing homelessness? And how can cities become better homes for all? The documentary film What It Takes to Make a Home follows a conversation between architects Michael Maltzan (Los Angeles) and Alexander Hagner (Vienna), who have been grappling with these questions over many years and through various projects. While the cities and the political and economic contexts in which Maltzan and Hagner work differ, both search for long-term strategies for housing instead of reacting with ad hoc solutions. Focussing on some causes and conditions of homelessness, the film questions the role architects can play toward overcoming the stigmatization of people experiencing it, in order to build more inclusive cities.
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- 0h 29m
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- English
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- 18 October 2019
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- Austria, United States of America
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What It Takes to Make a Home runs 29 minutes (0h 29m).
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What It Takes to Make a Home isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 18 October 2019. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
What movies are like What It Takes to Make a Home?
If you liked What It Takes to Make a Home, try A Home of Our Own, Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things, The Fountainhead.
Who directed What It Takes to Make a Home?
What It Takes to Make a Home (2019) was directed by Daniel Schwartz.