S1E1:Beauty

Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture

12 Apr 200850 minTV-MA

Contains Language.

What makes a building beautiful? In this fascinating documentary, historian Dan Cruickshank explores how humanity has created incredible 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.