According to the author of article, appearance first railway stations immediately became most striking image time. The history architecture Russian begins at same time when in Russia was built connecting St. Petersburg Pavlovsk. Previously existing post and so-called road imperial palaces served prototypes for stations. station is, first, a story which both interesting architectural social plot...

According to Paul Otlet, in order to face the worldwide interdependence which was evidenced in the First World War, we need an international center for the storage and dissemination of knowledge: The Mundaneum (1928). To study this utopian project is to study how positivism, centralism, and monumentalism have determined Otlet’s international perspective. His project of a colossal Bibliopolis co...