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Thofern, Heiner

Born in Bielefeld in 1959, Heiner Thofern was Deputy German Ambassador to the United Nations in Rome between 2015 and 2021. Already as a doctoral law student, Thofern cultivated a passion for architecture and town planning. His interests lie in the architecture following the Second World War, particularly that of Italy.
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Beautiful Games

This book explores a uniquely Roman type of building, the palazzina—a four- or five-story residential structure of the most meticulous design, built during the Italian economic miracle between the 1950s and ’70s. A Beautiful Game focuses on the extraordinarily imaginative entrances of these buildings.