Architecton
The tension between human nature and nature itself runs through this stunningly visual and poetic award-winning look at how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our own destruction — and offer hope for survival and a way forward. Centring on a landscape project by the Italian architect Michele De Lucchi, director Victor Kossakovsky uses the perfect circle of stones in De Lucchi’s garden to reflect on the rise and fall of civilisations, capturing breathtaking imagery, from the temple ruins of Baalbek in Lebanon, dating back to AD 60 to the recent destruction of cities in Turkey following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in early 2023. Rocks and stone connect the disparate societies, from ghostly monoliths stuck in the earth to tragic heaps of concrete rubble waiting to be hauled off and repurposed. Through Kossakovsky’s lens, the grandeur and folly of humanity and its precarious relationship with nature posits the urgent question: How do we build, and how can we build better, before it’s too late?DocumentaryPT1H38MU2025-01-24Victor Kossakovsky
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