WORLDWIDE CONCRETE: FROM CHICAGO TO SEOUL
A new collection from Blue Crow Media gives a global perspective on monumental concrete structures.
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,…
THE YEAR UNDER THE MACHINE
The Year Under the Machine, by Swedish author Peter Danielsson, occupies a place somewhere between art book,…
BRUTALIST ITALY
New from the prolific FUEL Publishing, Brutalist Italy is a photographic tour of the monumental concrete churches,…
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…