Great Expectations: A Journey Through the History of Visionary Architecture

Name: Great Expectations: A Journey Through the History of Visionary Architecture
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2007-03-30T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 53 min
Rating: 4

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.

Great Expectations: A Journey Through the History of Visionary Architecture

Chairs for Lovers

Nishinoyama House by Kazuyo Sejima

Gaudí, le génie visionnaire de Barcelone

Koolhaas Houselife

Concrete Forms of Resistance

Fernand Pouillon, Une architecture habitée

The Orchards

This is How the Obelisk Was Born

Secrets of the Parthenon

Places for the Soul

Ben Building: Mussolini, Monuments and Modernism

Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm

Sauver Notre-Dame

Der Stoff, aus dem Träume sind

Life, Assembled

Strange and Familiar: Architecture on Fogo Island

Arquitetura, A Transformação do Espaço

Bardejov

Roger D'Astous

The Spirit in Architecture: John Lautner