Palavra-chave Architecture History

A Revelação das Pirâmides é um documentário sobre o passado do nosso planeta. Este filme vai mudar para sempre a maneira como você olha para o nosso planeta, porque é realmente um trabalho sério.

Veneza, uma das cidades mais emblemáticas do mundo. Distribuída por 118 pequenas ilhas, ela parece repousar no meio da sua lagoa como uma bela adormecida numa eternidade magnífica e imóvel. Mas de vez em quando seu sono é perturbado pelas incursões do mar, que estão se tornando cada vez mais frequentes e violentas devido ao aquecimento global e às mudanças climáticas. Serão estes os primeiros sinais de uma crise ambiental que vai afetar todo o planeta?

These are some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has ever known. The series explores how and why they were built, consider the financial and social costs of their failure and examine the environmental and ecological impacts. The series also explores how experts came up with plans to make something beautiful or useful from the ruins.

Documentary series investigating why some of the world's most advanced architectural achievements were abandoned.

Jonathan Meades takes a quixotic tour of Scotland, a country which has intrigued him since he first encountered lists of towns only known from football coupons

Scattered across the United States are abandoned structures, forgotten ruins of the past and monuments to a bygone era. Each one shines a light on the story of this land and its people, revealing the secrets of a hidden America.

Hindu or Buddhist temples, synagogues, churches or mosques: religions have inspired architectural marvels. Four episodes to discover jewels of Muslim sacred art, masterpieces of Christian architecture, captivating Hindu and Buddhist buildings or even the most beautiful synagogues, witnesses of the history of the Jewish people.

First broadcast on October 2, 1989, these 18 original 30-minute episodes provide a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture, and studies the art masterpieces as reflections of the Western culture that produced them.

This four-part history series looks at how Australia has been shaped by its many definitions of home. Historic moments impacted homes, their designs, and the way we live as a society. From economic booms and busts to the fight for Land Rights and recognition, from various cultural migrations to the unrelenting force of nature, emerges a country building its way into the future.

Robert Hughes tackles the work and lives of three remarkable 20th-century architects: Albert Speer, Mies van der Rohe, and Antonio Gaudi - whose work did so much to shape the modern world. Hughes looks at how each one used space in different ways to express our response, respectively, to the power of religion (Gaudi), the power of the State (Speer), and the power of the corporation (Mies van der Rohe).