GLEB SOBOLEV:
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Gleb Sobolev is a practicing architect and member of the Moscow Union of Architects. He teaches at the Moscow Architectural Institute (MArchI) and taught at the Moscow Architectural School (MARCH). He graduated from MArchI and studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. Gleb has for more than four years curated his own international educational projects "Ruralities" and "Architecture and Context". He writes that,

In our present comfortable state, we have forgotten about the Earth, its rhythms, cycles, difficulties and dangers, its beauty and fragility have become marketing tools and computer screensavers. We are like children who have made a mess of the house and want to escape from it to Mars or the moon of Jupiter to avoid the consequences of their own irresponsibility. Looking at the Earth from space is looking in reverse perspective from the surface of the sphere to a point, onto each of us. In this perspective, the scale and proportions of objects change, the close-up is insignificant, and the distant appears with increasing detailing.