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.

Funkiskungen

2019

Kroměříž

1949

Bílá Telč

1948

Krásna Hôrka

1990

Richard Meier

Richard Meier

1986

Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos

Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos

2016

The Architecture of Rudolf Steiner

1991

Valldaura: A Quarantine Cabin

Valldaura: A Quarantine Cabin

2022

A Life's Work

A Life's Work

2020

From the West

2016

Slums: Cities of Tomorrow

Slums: Cities of Tomorrow

2014

Brutality in Stone

Brutality in Stone

1961

Paris Train Stations: Shaping the City

Paris Train Stations: Shaping the City

2020

The Real Thing

The Real Thing

2018

Drafting: Occupations & Opportunities

Drafting: Occupations & Opportunities

1968

In Residence: Ricardo Bofill

In Residence: Ricardo Bofill

2014

Years of Construction

Years of Construction

2019

Arata Isozaki: Early work in Japan

Arata Isozaki: Early work in Japan

1985

Tapavica

Tapavica

2016

Tadao Ando: Samurai Architect

Tadao Ando: Samurai Architect

2019

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