Oscar Niemeyer was the reason I chose to visit Algeria in the first place. After spending time among the seminal modernist architect’s works in Brasília the year prior, I was ...
Brasília is heaven for the modernism-obsessed. Beton brut as far as the eye can see, without any sort of colonial influence obstructing the view. I traveled to Brasília on a ...
San Bernadino didn’t figure into my original plans for Paraguay. Neither had a road trip, quite honestly. But after I changed my plans from traveling overland from Brasilia to ...
For David and me, the allure of travel is the way it allows us to understand places different from where we're from - and the more different a place, the ...
A note to the reader: I've recently completed a guide to travel on the ground once you arrive in Eritrea - it's the most up to date and comprehensive guide ...
Georgia (the country, not the state) is officially having a moment. Major publications around the world (from Vogue to the New York Times) are screaming Georgia's praises as an up ...
Among the buildings that represent the Soviet style of architecture, the most famous are of the Stalinist style. Moscows Seven Sisters, built in the 1940s and 1950s, are perhaps the ...
Tbilisi, Georgia is hallowed ground for those initiated into the cult of Soviet Modernist architecture. One building in particular, the former Ministry of Highways, has a solid spot within the ...
Architecture is always top of mind when planning our travels. We will often make detours to out of the way locations if we find out a building or monument of ...
95% of the time, David and I travel fast. Because we’re constrained in time off from our jobs, we try to see as much as possible in a very condensed ...