The International Space Station is the most complicated and expensive piece of architecture yet constructed by mankind. Like architecture on the ground it was assembled from bits and pieces into an enclosure for people to live and work in, except it is foundation-free and weightless. It is a flying building. The history of the Station is a complex weave of powerful threads – political, diplomatic, financial and technological among them – but none is more fascinating than the story of its development. David Nixon has written a book about the International Space Station and will discuss its design and construction in this lecture.
David Nixon is a British architect with a particular interest in space exploration. He co-founded Future Systems with Jan Kaplicky in 1978. He moved to California and was among a handful of architects to work on the early Space Station in the 1980s. He later established an office in Los Angeles to focus on a broad range of space work ranging from ground infrastructure to flight experiments.
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