I absolutely love this painting by Mikhail Nemtsov of The Communal House of the
Textile Institute
[http://architectuul.com/architecture/communal-house-of-the-textile-institute]
in Moscow.
Designed by Ivan Sergeevich Nikolaev and completed in 1931, it
As the US Space Shuttle Discovery lands for what is almost certain to be the
last time
[http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/08/6220270-how-discovery-will-meet-its-destiny]
, and as the NASA shuttle program
Since June 2010, six would be astronauts have been locked in a sealed capsule in
research facility outside Moscow, pretending to fly to Mars
[http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-01/24/
Back in the day, I probably knew more about the modern movement in Dutch
architecture, Het Nieuwe Bouwen, than just about anything else. Had I been asked
to select a specialist subject to
Liam Young and Kate Davies, lecturers at the Architectural Association, are
leading a study visit [http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/chernobyl.php]
to Chernobyl and Baikonour next July, as part of
