Great Expectations: A Journey Through the History of Visionary Architecture (2007)
• March 30th, 2007 • 0h 53min
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Overview
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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