Originally introduced by French biologist Pierre-Paul Grassé in 1959 to describe a coordination mechanism used by insects, the term “stigmergy” describes the principle that the work of a single agent-whether natural, animal or human-always leaves a tra …

Architecture and urbanism were traditionally based on climate and health, as we can read in the treatises of Vitruvius, Palladio or Alberti, where exposure to wind and sun, variations in temperature and humidity influenced the forms of cities and build …

This idea that the buying, or even the reading, of books is an expensive hobby and beyond the reach of the average person is so widespread that it deserves some detailed examination. In this piece of timeless propaganda from the Bookseller Association’ …

Mit über 800 Werken beherbergt das Museum Ludwig eine der weltweit umfangreichsten Sammlungen zur Russischen Avantgarde. Über 70 Künstler aus dieser Zeit, darunter Persönlichkeiten wie Alexandra Exter, Natalja Gontscharowa, Alexei von Jawlensky, Wassil …