Film - Great Expectations: A Journey through the History of Visionary Architecture

(Jesper Wachtmeister, 2007) A journey through the history of innovative, futuristic, Utopian and sometimes just bizarre architecture - from the beginning of the 20th century to today. Since the end of the 19th century, architects and artists, motivated by problems such as 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 you to the most significant architectural movements and personalities of the 20th century. With special attention to among others Rudolf Steiner, Le Corbusier, Buckminster Fuller, Paolo Soleri and Antti Lovag. 52 min, English.