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
            
             
                
        
                    
                /
The theme of the Lost Cosmonaut has been a continuing inspiration for the artist
Jeremy Geddes.
In a series of paintings, Geddes explores the romance and the desolation of the
cosmonaut, floating in
            
             
                
        
                    
                The Cosmonaut is crowd-sourced and crowd-funded film from the Riot Cinema
[http://riotcinema.com/] collective based in Spain.
They hope to create a feature length film with support from private funding. On
the
            
             
                
        
                    
                For anyone who might doubt that rocket launch towers represent the purest
continuation of the Constructivist aesthetic, I give you these pictures of the
recent launch of the Soyuz TMA-01M. This launch was
            
             
                
        
                    
                Earlier this year at the Gagosain gallery in London, there was a rather
dissonant exhibition, Crash, of artworks notionally inspired or reflective of
the work of JG Ballard. A highlight for me was