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TEMPLES OF THE ROAD: TRUCKS AND TUKS

The newest book from Christopher Herwig, author of the celebrated Soviet Bus Stops series, shifts to a new part of the world but a related subject: the vivid and varied decorated vehicles of India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Trucks and Tuks celebrates an art form that, while present worldwide, arguably reaches its pinnacle of devotion and self-expression in South Asia, with vehicles ranging from tiny two-seaters to massive road-spanning lorries displaying a wide array of styles.

John Peck
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ArchitectureBaltic
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MAPPING MODERN HELSINKI

With the new Modern Helsinki Map, Blue Crow Media extends their ever-expanding series to one of the world’s northernmost capitals. Too long seen as an outlier to the predominant cultural spheres of Europe, Helsinki is finally reclaiming its unique place in the continent: a thoroughly Nordic country that is at the crossroads of Scandinavian and Baltic, west and east, traditional and modern. Hundred-year-old wooden houses sit side-by-side with hypermodern concrete-and-glass structures, and modern buildings often have traits of traditional Finnish and Nordic architecture, built outward from a core of minimalism and functionality.

John Peck
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SOCIALIST MODERNISM IN RIGA

Riga’s architectural history spans centuries: many of its traditional Baltic wood buildings are battered but still standing, and its Art Nouveau structures are a standout, competing even with powerhouse cities like Paris in preservation and density. But it is Riga’s socialist modernist buildings that offer a unique lens into the city’s mid-to-late 20th century, with several major projects initiated before the fall of the Soviet Union but finished after, a physical record of Latvia’s postwar urban development under the shadow of occupation.

John Peck
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ArchitectureModernism
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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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UKRAINIAN MODERNISM

Ukraine’s 20th-century architectural legacy is complex, layered, and endlessly fraught. Featuring structures weathered by war, politics, and time in turn, Ukrainian Modernism, new from Fuel Publishing, captures the country’s architectural infrastructure at a particularly fraught and fragile moment. The result is a striking document of buildings that are conceptually complex, surprisingly varied, and, despite everything, resilient in the face of insurmountable forces.

John Peck
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