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ABOUT VAN ALEN BOOKS
Van Alen Books is an architecture and design bookstore, event space and public reading room located at Van Alen Institute’s headquarters in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. Opened in April 2011, this highly visible storefront space is New York City’s only book emporium and gathering place devoted singularly to architecture and design publications.
Van Alen Books gratefully acknowledges the support of Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, and Van Alen Circle members. Van Alen Books is also supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. vanalenbooks@vanalen.org Media: Press@vanalen.org 212-924-7000
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Helen & Hard Relational Design Based in the coastal Norwegian city of Stavanger, the design partnership Helen & Hard has developed their principles of ‘relational design’ over fifteen years of practice. Each project responds to social and ecological site conditions—witness Geopark, an urban playground bricolage assembled from the detritus of the region’s oil industry.

Helen & Hard
Relational Design
Based in the coastal Norwegian city of Stavanger, the design partnership Helen & Hard has developed their principles of ‘relational design’ over fifteen years of practice. Each project responds to social and ecological site conditions—witness Geopark, an urban playground bricolage assembled from the detritus of the region’s oil industry.