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  • Aalto and Nature Examines Architecture Through Landscape

    Few subjects offer a clearer route into Alvar Aalto’s architecture than nature. Published by Birkhäuser and edited by Tom Simons and Rainer Knapas, Aalto and Nature examines this relationship through landscape, gardens and the continuous exchange between interior and exterior space. The book approaches nature as an active component of Aalto’s work, extending the discussion […] More

  • The Gift Examines the Architecture of Global Socialism

    Architecture often carried political meaning during the Cold War, and The Gift: Spaces of Global Socialism and Their Afterlives examines one of its clearest forms: buildings donated by socialist states to newly independent countries in Africa and Asia. Edited by Łukasz Stanek, the 288-page volume studies factories, schools, hospitals, housing and other projects that Soviet, […] More