those of you who follow my flickr feed will be well aware of my fascination with 1960s and 70s modernist design. partly this is a recovery of influences which i now realise were formative, such as apollo-era space books, or these two books which formed the bedrock of my architectural consciousne...

so i flew to geneva wed night for a day of meetings and was supposed to fly back thurs night... not having seen the news, when they said that i wouldn't be able to fly back because of a volcano i thought it was a joke! so i ended up in a hotel in aix-les-bains, because geneva is full and very ex...