Link to Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture: Beauty documentary
Documentary Description
Historian and writer Dan Cruickshank celebrates architecture as a
creative force as he explores the world's greatest cities, buildings and
monuments. In the first episode, Cruickshank explores how humanity has
created beauty through architecture. He travels to Greenland to build an
igloo, creating an architectural form that is under threat due to
climate change. In China he scales the world's biggest Buddha and
deciphers a temple in India rich with erotic images. He visits the
Catherine Palace, a hot-blooded baroque masterpiece in the middle of
snowy Russia. Finally, he uncovers the dark tale of Albi Cathedral, a
building originally designed to suppress the local population but now an
object of beauty and wonder.