Great Expectations - A Journey Through the History of Visionary Architecture
Tells the fascinating story of these grand architectural visions, both realized and unrealized, as explained by great thinkers with revolutionary, if not always successful, ideas. Includes Le Corbusier's functionalist cities, Buckminster Fuller's lightweight geodesic domes, Moshe Safdie's Habitat '67 prefab apartments, Rudolf Steiner's Goetheanum and other anthroposophy buildings in Switzerland, Oscar Niemeyer's sleek urban designs foe Brasilia, Paolo Soleri's "archology" of crystal-like desert cities, Anitti Lovag's curved surfaces of Palais Bulles in France and Jacque Fresco's utopian Venus Project in Florida.
Year: 2007
Genre: Architectures
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 52 Minutes
Location in store: Documentary (Architectures)
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