Great Expectations: A Journey Through the History of Visionary Architecture
2007 | 53 minutes | 0.0 ★ (0)
- 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.
- Release Date
30 March 2007
- DirectingJesper Wachtmeister
- Budget
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$0.00
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