Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A civilization’s architecture tells you a lot about its values. Theocracies pour their resources into lavish cathedrals, dictators ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Concrete, like most material, is taken for granted. Just look at the quiet beauty of the gray stone slabs as captured in Victor ...

Filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky’s new documentary began with a simple question: “What if I film something that is not alive and not moving?” The answer led him to rocks. Architecton, then, features an ...

It’s very easy to misread the title of Victor Kossakovsky’s latest documentary as “Architection,” since it is, in some ways, a detective story about the world we live in, albeit one in which it is ...

The trailer for Victor Kossakovsky’s stunning new documentary Architecton has racked up 160,000 views in a day – very impressive for a nonfiction film. The feature, built of stone and concrete, ...

Some documentaries are filled with talking heads who explain things. Others show evidence and lay out an argument. But the new movie "Architecton" takes a different approach. It is a nearly wordless ...

“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 ...

If Victor Kossakovsky’s 2018 documentary Aquarela was an essay about climate change told through the medium of water, Architecton turns its attention to our planet’s shell of rock and stone, and its ...

Some documentaries are filled experts on this and that explaining things. Others show evidence and lay out an argument. But the new movie "Architecton" is an almost-wordless meditation on stone and ...