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.

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Kwai Shing West Estate

Kwai Shing West Estate

2021

John Hejduk: Builder of Worlds

John Hejduk: Builder of Worlds

1992

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

The McIntyre Block

The McIntyre Block

1977

John Portman: A Life of Building

2011

Teatro Amazonas: The Art of Sound and Nature

Teatro Amazonas: The Art of Sound and Nature

2022

Louis Sullivan: the Struggle for American Architecture

2010

Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move

Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move

1995

Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering

Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering

2011

Fernand Pouillon, Le roman d'un architecte

Fernand Pouillon, Le roman d'un architecte

2003

Die Bauten Adolf Hitlers

1938

10 Buildings That Changed America

10 Buildings That Changed America

2013

Beyrouth, Le Dialogue Des Ruines

Beyrouth, Le Dialogue Des Ruines

1993

Concrete Forms of Resistance

2020

Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering

Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering

2009

Leaning Out - An Intimate Look at Twin Towers Engineer Leslie E Robertson

Leaning Out - An Intimate Look at Twin Towers Engineer Leslie E Robertson

2018

Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering

Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering

2008

Years of Construction

Years of Construction

2019

Tudo é Projeto

Tudo é Projeto

2017

Notre-Dame de la Garde: Basilique hors norme

Notre-Dame de la Garde: Basilique hors norme

2021