Cochin,India: Notes from a Nerve of the World

May Joseph draws a poetic portrait of Cochin, in southern India, a contemporary city overlaid with history and successive migrations. Old and new collide with the local and regional pulls of cultures and peoples, the diaspora being further heightened by the possibilities of telecommunications matrixes and media transmission. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Shopping at MoMA

Anticipating last autumn's relaunch at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Manhattan, Gluckman Mayner Architects helped to reconceive a key moneymaker, notes Craig Kellogg.     

Space is an Ecology for Living In

Current space exploration can be viewed as an augmentation of the activities of the 20th century, albeit with a greater emphasis on new technologies and privatisation. With the continuation of this trend, could outer space be in danger of becoming a vast territory exposed to the voracity of would-be prospectors, manned by robots? Rachel Armstrong , Professor of Experimental Architecture at Newcastle University and guest-editor of the April 2000 AD Space Architecture issue, advocates a much more far-reaching biological definition of Space, driven by a concern for the natural environment, that emphasises its potential as an ecology for living in.