Great Expectations: A Journey Through the History of Visionary Architecture
Great Expectations: A Journey Through the History of Visionary Architecture

Great Expectations: A Journey Through the History of Visionary Architecture

This documentary provides an astonishing journey through innovative, futuristic, utopian and sometimes bizarre architecture projects—including concrete illusions of grandeur and Lego-like modular apartments to an Instant City Airship and round, grass-covered subterranean dwellings—from the beginning of the 20th century to today.

Structures of Marvel: Medieval Paris

Structures of Marvel: Medieval Paris

2021

2021-1985

2021-1985

2021

First Person Singular: I.M. Pei

First Person Singular: I.M. Pei

1997

Ad Astra

Ad Astra

2015

L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui

L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui

1930

Brasília

Brasília

2011

Making Space: 5 Women Changing the Face of Architecture

Making Space: 5 Women Changing the Face of Architecture

2014

City Dreamers

City Dreamers

2018

From the West

2016

Steven Holl: The Body in Space

Steven Holl: The Body in Space

1999

Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story

Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story

2020

Palace for the People

Palace for the People

2018

Twilight City

Twilight City

1989

Fading City

Fading City

2020

De Gaulle bâtisseur

De Gaulle bâtisseur

2020

Vilanova Artigas: The Architect and the Light

Vilanova Artigas: The Architect and the Light

2015

Naissance d'un hôpital

1991

in retrospect

in retrospect

2025

Lost Pyramids of the Aztecs

Lost Pyramids of the Aztecs

2020

Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City

Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City

2010

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