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Great expectations : a journey through the history of visionary architecture /

Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmLanguage: English, Japanese, Norwegian, Finnish Subtitle language: English Publication details: Brooklyn, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, [©2007]Description: 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videocassette

Other title:

Journey through the history of visionary architecture

Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:

720.92 22

LOC classification:

NA680 .G69 2007

Contents:

Great expectations (2007, 52 min.) -- Kochuu (2003, 53 min.).

Production credits:

Great expectations: cinematographer, Simon Pramsten ; animations, Måns Swanberg, Pistachios ; music, Silverbullit.
Kochuu: camera, Askild Vik Edvadsen ; music, Benny Nilsen.

Great expectations: [Narrator: Simon Chilvers].Kochuu: Commentary: Tadao Ando, Sverre Fehn, Toyo Ito, Kristian Gullichsen, Juhani, Pallasmaa, Kazuo Shinohara, Kisho Kurokawa.Summary: Great expectations: Looks at innovative, futuristic, utopian and sometimes bizarre architectural projects of the 20th century. Shows how contemporary problems like housing shortages, urban decay and pollution motivate architects to create changes in the way people live. Considers plans that have actually been constructed and animates some unrealized visions to see how they might have looked. Features works by Rudolf Steiner, Le Corbusier, Moshe Safdie, Oscar Niemeyer, Jacque Fresco, Peter Cook, Colin Fournier, Levitt & Sons, Antti Lovag, Peter Vetsch, and Paolo Soler.Summary: Kochuu: Documentary about modern Japanese architecture, and its impact on the Nordic building tradition. "Kochuu" which translates as "in the jar," refers to the Japanese tradition of constructing small, enclosed physical spaces, which create the impression of a separate universe. Features interviews with some of Japan's leading architects as well as Scandinavian contemporaries.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD-02592 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050192464

Two films by Jesper Wachtmeister in one disc.

Great expectations originally broadcast as a television program on April 13, 2007. Kochuu originally broadcast on television in 2003.

Special features include (Great expectations): 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; Peter Cook and Colin Fournier's biomorphic Kunsthaus Graz in Austria.

Special feature include (Kochuu): Pritzker prize winning architects Tadao Ando and Sverre Fehn.

Great expectations (2007, 52 min.) -- Kochuu (2003, 53 min.).

DVD; region 1, NTSC.

Great expectations: Narration in English. Some interviews in French, German or Portuguese with English subtitles.

Kochuu: Soundtrack in Japanese, Norwegian, and Finnish with subtitles in English.

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