Nader Khalili is recognized throughout the world as an innovative and visionary architect, author and teacher. In this long-awaited new work Khalili chronicles his own journey of transformation; a journey that would first take him from the poverty stricken ghettos of his childhood, dominated by the spirituality of Islam to wealth and power of a successful architecture practice dominated by rational engineering and mathematics. At thirty-eight, his turning point in life, he finds himself in the desert, where he spends five years and gets to know five personalities very closely: earth, water, air, fire, and Rumi who teaches him the unity of the universal elements. Working with mud, fire, the poor, and poetry he next finds himself deeply involved in a NASA initiated program for creating a future Lunar colony for the 21st century. Then suddenly he is awakened by the realization of his own mortality, and the empowering internal fire that can help pull him through.

Reviews:
Khalili's own personal transformation only began when he renounced his skyscraper architecture practice and teaching. He returned, alone to the desert to test himself and create new technologies. - Burning Gate Press

"Khalili's perspective on lunar architecture provides a thought-provoking contrast to "orthodox" scenarios" - NASA

"His architecture has a quasi mystical character" - Centre Georges Pompidou
Cover Image: · jpg file attached: · Sorry, no can do. Please scan the book's cover Book Specs · Title Sidewalks on the Moon · Author(s) Nader Khalili · Publisher: Cal-Earth Press · Edition: revised, 2nd edition, etc. 2nd edition, 2nd printing · Cloth/paper Paper · Size 5.5 x 8.5 inches · Page count 327 · List features. Examples include: photos, illustrations, index, charts & tables, bibliography, appendices, resource lists, publisher, etc. Features: · Category(s): building, gardening, architecture, ecology, etc. Category(s): Quest - Autobiography · Cal-Earth Publication Date: March 2002 · Month of Publication (for CGP): June 2002 · Price: 14.95 · ISBN: 1-889625-02-7 · Bullets: · The journey of a mystic architect through tradition, technology, and transformation. "No one can prove there is a meaning to life. I must make my own life meaningful, that is all"