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. Since the end of the 19th century due to industrialization and rapid technological progress mankind has been confronted with new problems and possibilities. Visionary architects and artists motivated by contemporary problems including housing shortages urban decay and pollution set about to create changes in our ways of living that challenged conventional concepts of the... good the true and the beautiful. Great Expectations introduces us to the most significant architectural movements and personalities of the 20th century including among many others 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 for Brasilia Paolo Soleri's archology of crystal-like desert cities Antti Lovag's curved surfaces of Palais Bulles in France Jacque Fresco's utopian Venus Project in Florida and Peter Cook and Colin Fournier's biomorphic Kunsthaus Graz in Austria. Using archival and contemporary footage animation and interviews Great Expectations 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. [show more]
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Swedish-made documentary looking at the grand architectural visions of our time and telling the story of their inception and creation.
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