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The last page: roadside spirits

On the last page of the June issue, a roadside shrine

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The last page: architecture pills

On the last page of the Health issue, Hans Hollein proffers a drug

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The last page: out of space
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The last page: Aldo van Eyck’s leaf
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The last page: Albania’s impervious nuclear bunkers
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The last page: the marooned church of Megalopoli
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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

Architects on the subject of the sketch

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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
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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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