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SOCIALIST HOTELS

With Socialist Hotels, FUEL continues their ongoing project of cataloguing the architectural relics of the former Eastern Bloc in photographs. Like past volumes in the series such as Spomenik Monument Database and Holidays in Soviet Sanatoriums, it features contemporary photographs of still-existing structures, making it less a historical chronicle than a document of surviving architecture from a bygone era, with a focus on capturing the textures, geometries, and architectural curiosities of the buildings in question.

John Peck
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PORTO: SIGNS AND FACADES

The storefronts, façades, and marquees of Portugal’s second city offer a startling blend of styles. Traditional tilework, geometric modernism, and startlingly honed typography often cover multiple stories, with signage making full use of the city’s often tall, narrow buildings.

John Peck
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INVENTING GREENLAND

WITH A TOTAL population of 56,000 spread across a landmass twice the size of all other Nordic countries combined, Greenland’s overall density hovers at just over zero. The precursors to Greenland’s modern-day inhabitants were settlers both indigenous and European, dating back millennia and including the Saqqaq, Independence I-II, and Dorset cultures, as well as the Greenlandic Vikings who settled in the far south in 982 (led by Erik the Red). All these prior cultures and settlements, however, disappeared, leaving only archaeological records.

John Peck
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