Nesting

Architectural Review, The, Dec, 2004 by Sutherland Lyall

I was about to send out a plea for further and better information about Cloud-Cuckoo-Land, the international journal of architectural theory when I found it at www.tu-cottbus.de/BTU/Fak2/TheoArch/wolke/cloud_1.html#.

This is an online publication written in German, English and Russian and edited by Eduard Fuhr with an advisory board of people from all over--Yekaterinburg, Graz, Yale and several places in Germany. That might, but probably doesn't, mean that this is an accredited refereed journal. I'm not sure if Cloud Cuckoo Land has quite the same meaning in German as it does in English. The German explanation is that the name is taken from Aristophanes's play, The Birds, in which birds, fed up with humanity, create a city in the sky. So that the magazine is devoted to creating a virtual space where people can carry out architectural discourse 'in between the clouds'. That sounds a tad wimpish but it's not, because this is a robust publication with some interesting material.