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Marta Becket has been a creative force in this outpost in the desert for over 35 years. Not only does she perform in the opera house, she has created a wonderful permanent audience on the walls and ceiling of the theater.

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John Hejduk designed this house in the 70s, but it was built much later, in 2001 on the outskirts of the City of Groningen in the northernmost province of the Netherlands. The house was a radical conceptualization of the idea that work and living space should be separated, in this case by an over sized concrete wall. Recent research about the detrimental effects of the growing intermingling of working and living, suggest that Hejduk had the right idea.