
Examine prehistoric Russian architecture and burial practices from paleolithic sites and corbel vaults in the southern Urals and Crimea, including grave vessels and Iranian Eurasian nomads.
Discover mentality village in Russia, a restored mill town revived after World War II by investors and woodworkers, preserving traditional crafts, buildings, lifestyle, and heritage for tourism.
Explore the fortified 14th-century dawn mission monastery of Saint Sarah on a lake, a northern Russia complex with watchtowers and courtyards, housing Byzantine Orthodox imagery as a museum.
Explore Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, a Byzantine masterpiece ordered by Justinian. Learn how its 56-meter dome on pendant transfers weight through arches from a square plan to the ground.
Explore Moscow's architecture and design through the Red Square highlights—the Kremlin, St. Basil's Cathedral, the GUM department store, and Lenin's Tomb—revealing history, color, and iconic city views.
Explore the course catalog by highlighting the repeated phrases 'birdie' and 'it's over' within the Russian architecture and design course.
This course is a journey to visit and study the form, function and beauty of some of the most iconic and beautiful sites and buildings of Russia. The course is designed entirely with first-hand on site research and photography. Russia is a very large and diverse country. The architecture of Russia reflects the diverse cultures that have influenced this beautiful country. We will be sailing on rivers and lakes to our destinations in remote areas of Russia to seek the roots of this unique architecture. Welcome! I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius
This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.
The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.
Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.