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The last page: Albania’s impervious nuclear bunkers

On the last page of the Concrete issue, new concrete construction bends to a nuclear bunker from the communist era

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The last page: the marooned church of Megalopoli

On the last page of the Ground issue, a village church makes the last stand against a coal mine

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The last page: springtime in the Outernet
Louise Bourgeois' print "Who, Where, When, Why, What" from 1999, depicting the pictorial blue outline of a typical detached house with chimney. The words Who, Where, When, Why, What are written in red capital letters in the four quadrants of the house and in the apse of the roof. The chimney emits a delightful spiral of smoke, also in red ink

Folio: Who, Where, When, Why, What
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Folio: Ryue Nishizawa’s desk
James Gowan's drawing of his Trafalgar Road Housing project in a nondescript desert

Folio: Trafalgar Road Housing by James Gowan
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Folio: Stop Hoarding Housing by Darren Cullen
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Folio: Tableau Vivant by Thierry Mandon
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Folio: the re-thatching of Nagase house in Shirakawago
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Folio: Timekeeper by Pierre Huyghe

Architects on the subject of the sketch

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Cover story: Deane Hodgson’s collaged cityscape
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Folio: judgement day
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Folio: Am I Here by Fugitive Images
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Folio: Twelve Houses of Our Time by Gerd Arntz
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Folio: Frederick Kiesler’s Endless House
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Cover story: Ana Salom Farré’s map of architectural practice
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Folio: The Petroleum Tree by Socony-Vacuum Oil Company
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Folio: I Don’t Want an Empty Degree by Oscar Parkinson
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