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House of Orphans by Helen Dunmore

House of Orphans by Helen Dunmore  Amazon (.com) (.uk). This is an interesting book because it is by a British author but the novel is set in pre-revolution Finland. As such the author faces the challenge of making the characters and settings both believable and accurate without bogging down the story with too much detail. [...]
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Provisional Book Review

Provisional – Emerging modes of Architectural Practice US by Elite Kedan, Jon Dreyfous, Craig Mutter                (Princeton Architectural Press 2009) This book takes nine practices from the U.S.A which are by their nature different from a standard architectural practice and look at how they work. Some things are about the practical building relationships during a project for [...]
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Nightlands

Nightlands Nordic building by Christian Norberg-Schulz. Amazon (uk|us) A tip off from a reader of this blog sent me to this book for which I will be eternally grateful. First I should start with a warning you that this is not a coffee table publication, the pictures are sparse and in black and white. However [...]
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Arctic Cities

I wrote a review of the Arctic Cities exhibition currently on at the Finnish Museum of Architecture in Helsinki over at the Ovi. The exhibition is about three cities in the North, Tromsø in Norway, Kiruna in Sweden which I’ve written about before, and Oulu in Finland. Also I took some photos.
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The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, is a beautiful novel about a grandaughter and grandmother living on an island in the Finnish Arpelago. This is one of Tove Janssons’ adult novels although she is much more famous as the creator of the moomins. This book however really deserves to be held up as a great [...]
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