‘Architecton’ Review: Victor Kossakovsky’s Mesmerizing Documentary on What We Take From the Earth to Build Upon It
“We need a new idea of beauty,” says Michele De Lucchi, the Italian architect who talks us through certain stretches of “Architecton,” a singularly imposing and sonorous new documentary from Russian non-fiction auteur Victor Kossakovsky. His argument is that the earth can no longer sustain the kind of hefty architectural grandeur, built from the fabric […]