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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Lost Pyramids of the Aztecs

Lost Pyramids of the Aztecs

2020

A ház

A ház

1975

A Plea for Modernism

A Plea for Modernism

2011

Berlin Babylon

Berlin Babylon

2001

First Person Singular: I.M. Pei

First Person Singular: I.M. Pei

1997

Notre-Dame Résurrection

Notre-Dame Résurrection

2024

Neutra: Survival Through Design

Neutra: Survival Through Design

2019

Koolhaas Houselife

Koolhaas Houselife

2008

The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat

The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat

2012

The Orchards

The Orchards

2025

Brasília

Brasília

2011

Regular or Super: Views on Mies van der Rohe

Regular or Super: Views on Mies van der Rohe

2004

Kwai Shing West Estate

Kwai Shing West Estate

2021

Jugaad

Jugaad

2020

Edwin Lutyens Master Architect

1981

Gaudí, le génie visionnaire de Barcelone

Gaudí, le génie visionnaire de Barcelone

2022

Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches

Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches

2006

This is How the Obelisk Was Born

This is How the Obelisk Was Born

1936

Seedbed

1972

DUE SEGNI

DUE SEGNI

2022