Some kinds of creativity are harder to capture on camera than others. Eureka moments are fairly easy to present in music or occasionally in art. Architecture can have its napkin sketch epiphanies, but the fundamental requirement of the profession is then to tweak these dreams to hold up floors and keep out rain, a process that is often resolutely boring. 

Perhaps for this reason, there are almost no films about the practice of architecture. Movies feature plenty of architect characters, but peering at models tends to be the nearest they get to doing any work. Charles Bronson does not put his knowledge of structural engineering to use in Death Wish. The Fountainhead has long been nearly the sole exception that seemed to at least ostensibly concern designing buildings. It’s been joined recently by Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis and Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist. The former has received a mixed reception, and the latter was nominated recently for 10 Academy Awards. Most are deserved.