Architecture

At the end of the 19th century, in different parts of Europe, a young and energetic generation of designers and artists set out to get rid of the historicism...

The proposed book is devoted to a valuable, although least known, area of the architectural heritage of St. Petersburg. In it, the author, continuing his man...

Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space S...

This issue is the first in a series of illustrated catalogs of architectural monuments in the Moscow region. Descriptions are given of all state-protected ar...

Contains a description of the biographies and works of leading artists of the 17th century. The most outstanding achievements in the field of architecture, s...

In modern urbanism, the wide open space of a large area is perceived as something irretrievably outdated. No designer, be it a New Urbanist (an 18th-century ...

Exploring the outskirts of South America's largest city, Sao Paulo, Justin McGuirk analyzes the different forms of housing there and talks to its residents, ...

How easily a person reads the coherence of its individual elements in the urban landscape and imagines a kind of holistic and meaningful picture of the place...

The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America's most beloved authors...

In the vicinity of St. Petersburg, over the 200 years of its imperial history, a real constellation of imperial residences was formed. Some of them, for exam...

A science fiction superfan finds himself on his very own space adventure when he’s randomly selected to join an alien confederacy in this hilarious middle...

Auguste Choisy is a French engineer, historian of architecture and construction technology. He devoted most of his life to the study and teaching of architec...