A new program on PBS explores architectural styles
and their influence on buildings across America. From the Thomas Jefferson-designed Virginia
state capitol building that first declared our architectural independence from
Great Britain to an iconic Prairie-style home by Frank Lloyd Wright. Fom the
factory that housed Henry Ford’s first Model T moving assembly line to the
original indoor regional shopping mall. Fom H. H. Richardson’s iconic Trinity
Church in Boston to Frank Gehry’s game-changing Disney Concert Hall in Los
Angeles, we see the influence of America’s best architects all around us – in
the homes where we live, the offices where we work, our public buildings, and
houses of worship. Many have been shaped in one way or another by a handful of
imaginative, audacious, and sometimes even arrogant Americans throughout
history whose bold ideas have been copied far and wide. Sometimes in a flash of
inspiration these architects have dared to strike out on their own and design a
radical new building that has permanently altered our built environment. 10 Buildings that Changed America is a journey that will take you across
America and inside these groundbreaking works of art and engineering. It is
also a journey back in time to discover the shocking, funny, and even sad
stories of how these buildings were created. And it is a journey inside the
imaginations of ten daring architects who set out to change the way we live,
work, and play.
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