Frank Gehry: Building Justice
83 mins.
Date: 10 Jan, 2026 | Time: 16:00 | Little Theatre
Date: 11 Jan, 2026 | Time: 12:30 | Tata Theatre
This inspiring documentary, connecting architecture with social policy, follows the legendary architect Frank Gehry as he sets out to answer whether there is a better way to design prisons. Collaborating with architecture students from the Southern California Institute of Architecture and the Yale School of Architecture, former inmates, and prison experts, Gehry and his colleagues grapple with complex social, political, emotional, structural, and aesthetic challenges to re-envision the future of incarceration. Together, they explore all aspects of prison design, learning first-hand the design flaws of prison life from women who have been incarcerated in the worst prisons in all of the United States. Frank Gehry: Building Justice examines both the American criminal justice system and the issue of prison design through architecture students' point of view, as they look into the future of American incarceration policy.
This inspiring documentary, connecting architecture with social policy, follows the legendary architect Frank Gehry as he sets out to answer whether there is a better way to design prisons. Collaborating with architecture students from the Southern California Institute of Architecture and the Yale School of Architecture, former inmates, and prison experts, Gehry and his colleagues grapple with complex social, political, emotional, structural, and aesthetic challenges to re-envision the future of incarceration. Together, they explore all aspects of prison design, learning first-hand the design flaws of prison life from women who have been incarcerated in the worst prisons in all of the United States. Frank Gehry: Building Justice examines both the American criminal justice system and the issue of prison design through architecture students' point of view, as they look into the future of American incarceration policy.
