CinemaOSMovie · 2007 · 0h 53m

Great Expectations: A Journey Through the History of Visionary Architecture

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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.

Directed byJesper Wachtmeister

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Released
Runtime
0h 53m
Language
SV
Released
March 30, 2007
Studios
Solaris FilmproduktionSVTAVRO

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Directed by
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Written by
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Produced by
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