Edited by Simon Sellars and Dan O’Hara, the book collects 44 conversations including his first published interview, with George MacBeth in 1967, and one of his last, a 2008 interview with James Naughtie. Other contributors include Eduardo Paolozzi, Jon Savage, Will Self, David Cronenberg, Mark Dery, Richard Kadrey, Iain Sinclair, John Gray, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Toby Litt and Hari ...
Residential: Single Residence - Ar. Jayadev, Cochin Project: Rithu, Cochin Highlights of Project: Integrated indoor-outdoor transition; simple lines; play of colours; ample natural light and ventilation. Residential: Multi-storey -Ar. Kiran Venkatesh of InFORM Archietcts, Bangalore Project: Housing Tower One, Hyderabad Highlights of Project: Green features; responsible living and social interaction spaces; strong massing and colour scheme; aesthetic of building ...
Lance Edward Armstrong (born Lance Edward Gunderson, September 18, 1971) is an American former professional road racing cyclist. He was world champion in 1993. Later in his career, Armstrong competed in endurance competitions, including marathon running, marathon mountain bike racing, triathlon and Ironman competitions. He is best known for his performances in the Tour de France but in June ...
Mourinho has been given a two-match touchline ban and WOULD HAVE HAD to sit in the stands with a minder anyway. Here we are talking about the "future in the past". At the time the speaker is talking, Mourhino had already received the ban (past). He knew then that for the next match (future, when he got the ban) ...
Sony announced the CDP-101, the world's first Compact Disc player, on October 1st, 1982. When the CD came out, it was like something from another planet. In 1982, no one except computer nerds had computers. It wasn't until the late 1980s that hard drives were seen commonly, and then they were only 10 megabytes, an astounding number. By 1985, computers ...
Designers around the world are carving out opportunities for new kinds of engagement, new kinds of collaboration, new kinds of design outcomes, and new kinds of practice; overturning the inherited assumptions of the design professions. Seventeen conversations with practitioners from the fields of architecture, policy, activism, design, education, research, history, community engagement and more, each representing an emergent role ...
For the first time, SLIA (Sri Lanka Institute of Architects) has organized and successfully concluded a student jamboree for the architecture students of the island. Nearly 80 students from the 2 architecture schools (Mora and CSA) took part in this event. Event was hosted at the MAS Institute of Management and Technology (MIMT) at Thulhiriya from 17th to 19th August. ...
Sagara has published a new book on churches of the Kalpitiya peninsula in Sri Lanka. This is Sagara's second book, his first being "Dwellings of Faith"
A short turn off from the Kundasala Road just outside of Kandy and you will come upon a strange sight: the unfinished Vihara of Galmaduwa. The Galmaduwa viharaya is an impressive building of strange architecture. As its local name suggests, it is basically a pavilion built of stone and brick. But a high gopuram gives it a Hindu identity. ...
In his million-copy bestseller 'Guns, Germs, and Steel', Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Diamond is trying to explain inequality across regions of the world, the roots of power. He begins from the belief and his experience that people across the globe are fundamentally ...
