The festival's offerings this year cover famous buildings — the CN Tower here in Toronto, COPAN in Sao Paulo, and five buildings by celebrated architect Renzo Piano — the work of overlooked female architects generally and Barbara Buser specifically, standout architectural styles Bauhaus and the lesser-known Space Age delights of Googie, revitalized urban spaces — Tingbjerg and Nørrebro in Copenhagen, Máximapark outside of Utrecht, and reclaimed natural spaces like a patch of desert that now grows vegetables for refugees in Algeria, and a once-polluted lake brought back to life in Bolivia: everything that makes the places where we live, play, and work better to be in for each of us individually, and collectively to secure a less precarious future for our put-upon planet.