URBEX IN DUBLIN
When it comes to urban exploration, Dublin’s abandoned places offer an experience both unique and universal.
EINDHOVEN MODERN
Like many urban centers in the Netherlands, Eindhoven experienced massive devastation of its architecture and infrastructure during WWII.
LONDON ESTATES: BRUTAL BEAUTIES
London-based publisher FUEL‘s books on Modernist and Brutalist architecture have generally focused on Russia and Central Asia, in a…
THE YEAR UNDER THE MACHINE
The Year Under the Machine, by Swedish author Peter Danielsson, occupies a place somewhere between art book, artist’s book,…
BRUTALIST ITALY
New from the prolific FUEL Publishing, Brutalist Italy is a photographic tour of the monumental concrete churches, apartment towers,…
PHOTO GALLERY: PAIMIO SANATORIUM
Paimio Sanatorium, located among the pine forests of southwestern Finland, is both a modernist marvel and a leading example of human-centered architecture. Completed in 1933, and based on a contest-winning design by the young husband-and-wife team of Alvar and Aino Aalto, the building was designed from the ground up as a place of healing, rest, and tranquility.
Set among the pine forests east of Paimio, a small town about thirty kilometers east of Turku, the building is surrounded by green space on all sides…
INTERVIEW: AARON A. REED DISCUSSES “50 YEARS OF TEXT GAMES”
Like the earliest examples of books and film, the earliest computer games were defined by the limits of their technology. Games such as Tennis for Two (eventually re-envisioned as Pong) and Spacewar! used monochrome sprites that could be modulated via console-style controls; when graphics had to make the jump to home-based consoles, they became blocky and pixelated, recognizable only by the game’s title and box art.
PHOTO GALLERY: LES CHOUX DE CRÉTEIL
Les Choux de Créteil (“The Cabbages of Créteil”) is a grouping of fifteen of housing towers in the Paris suburb of Créteil. The buildings, designed by architect Gérard Grandval, were completed in 1974, and remain fully occupied. In recent years, approximately 25% of the project’s overall rooms have been reallocated as student housing.