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Published in 4/2020 - Empathy

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The Weakening Link between Architecture and Social Interaction

Tommi Aho

Chiaramonti Museum, Vatican. Outtake from virtual tour of Raffaele Stern’s New Wing, completed in 1822.

Architecture has always sought to find solutions to the challenges inherent in human social interaction, so it perhaps ought to have a role to play online, too, ponders Tommi Aho.

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