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While most books on architecture concentrate on spatial themes, this book explores architecture's temporal dimensions. Through a series of close readings of buildings, both contemporary and classic, it demonstrates the centrality of time in modern architecture, and shows why an understanding of time is critical to understanding good architecture. 'Building time' presents(...)
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While most books on architecture concentrate on spatial themes, this book explores architecture's temporal dimensions. Through a series of close readings of buildings, both contemporary and classic, it demonstrates the centrality of time in modern architecture, and shows why an understanding of time is critical to understanding good architecture. 'Building time' presents(...)
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Building time: architecture, event and experience
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While most books on architecture concentrate on spatial themes, this book explores architecture's temporal dimensions. Through a series of close readings of buildings, both contemporary and classic, it demonstrates the centrality of time in modern architecture, and shows why an understanding of time is critical to understanding good architecture. 'Building time' presents twelve close readings of buildings and artworks which explore this idea. Examining works by distinctive modern architects – from Eileen Gray to Álvaro Siza and Wang Shu – it takes the reader, in some cases literally step-by-step, through a built work, and provides insightful reflections on the importance of 'making space for time' in architectural design.
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While most books on architecture concentrate on spatial themes, this book explores architecture's temporal dimensions. Through a series of close readings of buildings, both contemporary and classic, it demonstrates the centrality of time in modern architecture, and shows why an understanding of time is critical to understanding good architecture. 'Building time' presents twelve close readings of buildings and artworks which explore this idea. Examining works by distinctive modern architects – from Eileen Gray to Álvaro Siza and Wang Shu – it takes the reader, in some cases literally step-by-step, through a built work, and provides insightful reflections on the importance of 'making space for time' in architectural design.
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November 2020
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"When a work reaches its maximum intensity," wrote Le Corbusier, "a phenomenon of ineffable space occurs." The ultimate quality of architecture would reside, therefore, in the resistance to its description. However, to tell us this, and much more, the Swiss master has published more than seventy books and his so compelling formula in supporting the ineffable also shows(...)
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"When a work reaches its maximum intensity," wrote Le Corbusier, "a phenomenon of ineffable space occurs." The ultimate quality of architecture would reside, therefore, in the resistance to its description. However, to tell us this, and much more, the Swiss master has published more than seventy books and his so compelling formula in supporting the ineffable also shows(...)
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Sayable space: narrative practices in architecture
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"When a work reaches its maximum intensity," wrote Le Corbusier, "a phenomenon of ineffable space occurs." The ultimate quality of architecture would reside, therefore, in the resistance to its description. However, to tell us this, and much more, the Swiss master has published more than seventy books and his so compelling formula in supporting the ineffable also shows how words are able to grasp it. This brief essay investigates the multiple intersections between discourse and design: the way buildings try to ‘talk’ with their own specific means; how architects are trying to remain relevant without building; the paradoxes of architecture description after its completion; the modes of communication during the project processes; the capacity of narrative to act before the project operations start and infiltrate the collective perception, making possible innovative approaches...
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"When a work reaches its maximum intensity," wrote Le Corbusier, "a phenomenon of ineffable space occurs." The ultimate quality of architecture would reside, therefore, in the resistance to its description. However, to tell us this, and much more, the Swiss master has published more than seventy books and his so compelling formula in supporting the ineffable also shows how words are able to grasp it. This brief essay investigates the multiple intersections between discourse and design: the way buildings try to ‘talk’ with their own specific means; how architects are trying to remain relevant without building; the paradoxes of architecture description after its completion; the modes of communication during the project processes; the capacity of narrative to act before the project operations start and infiltrate the collective perception, making possible innovative approaches...
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February 2021
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'Alter Architecture Research Collective' (AARC) is an interdisciplinary group of thinkers and practitioners that come together to observe, question and distort existing strategies of cultural and spatial production. Understanding architecture as appropriation, production and organization of space, mostly governed centrally by economic logics that work to entrap(...)
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'Alter Architecture Research Collective' (AARC) is an interdisciplinary group of thinkers and practitioners that come together to observe, question and distort existing strategies of cultural and spatial production. Understanding architecture as appropriation, production and organization of space, mostly governed centrally by economic logics that work to entrap(...)
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'Alter Architecture Research Collective' (AARC) is an interdisciplinary group of thinkers and practitioners that come together to observe, question and distort existing strategies of cultural and spatial production. Understanding architecture as appropriation, production and organization of space, mostly governed centrally by economic logics that work to entrap subjectivity, AARC seeks to inhabit and distort these mechanism. Where counter-strategies imply simply opposition, alteration opens space for multiplicities and difference.
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'Alter Architecture Research Collective' (AARC) is an interdisciplinary group of thinkers and practitioners that come together to observe, question and distort existing strategies of cultural and spatial production. Understanding architecture as appropriation, production and organization of space, mostly governed centrally by economic logics that work to entrap subjectivity, AARC seeks to inhabit and distort these mechanism. Where counter-strategies imply simply opposition, alteration opens space for multiplicities and difference.
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December 2020
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Ensamble Studio, led by architects Anto´n Garci´a-Abril and De´bora Mesa, is a cross-functional team based in Spain and the United States that works across research, design, and construction to create innovative architecture by conducting experiments with their own hands and developing construction methods. They propose ways to build architecture and cities that respond(...)
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Ensamble Studio, led by architects Anto´n Garci´a-Abril and De´bora Mesa, is a cross-functional team based in Spain and the United States that works across research, design, and construction to create innovative architecture by conducting experiments with their own hands and developing construction methods. They propose ways to build architecture and cities that respond(...)
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Ensamble Studio: Architecture of the earth
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Ensamble Studio, led by architects Anto´n Garci´a-Abril and De´bora Mesa, is a cross-functional team based in Spain and the United States that works across research, design, and construction to create innovative architecture by conducting experiments with their own hands and developing construction methods. They propose ways to build architecture and cities that respond to the needs of our times by integrating design and modern technology from global perspectives with the aim of improving the quality of human life. Their diverse undertakings range from landscape construction to prefabrication of houses. This book features eleven projects under the theme of "Architecture of the Earth," including their representative works "SGAE Headquarters" and "Structures of Landscape."
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Ensamble Studio, led by architects Anto´n Garci´a-Abril and De´bora Mesa, is a cross-functional team based in Spain and the United States that works across research, design, and construction to create innovative architecture by conducting experiments with their own hands and developing construction methods. They propose ways to build architecture and cities that respond to the needs of our times by integrating design and modern technology from global perspectives with the aim of improving the quality of human life. Their diverse undertakings range from landscape construction to prefabrication of houses. This book features eleven projects under the theme of "Architecture of the Earth," including their representative works "SGAE Headquarters" and "Structures of Landscape."
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July 2021
July 2021
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Architecture Monographs
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An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Architecture is both the setting for our everyday lives and a public art form - but it remains mysterious to most of us. In "How architecture works", Witold Rybczynski, (...)
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An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Architecture is both the setting for our everyday lives and a public art form - but it remains mysterious to most of us. In "How architecture works", Witold Rybczynski, (...)
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How architecture works: a humanist's toolkit
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An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Architecture is both the setting for our everyday lives and a public art form - but it remains mysterious to most of us. In "How architecture works", Witold Rybczynski, answers our most fundamental questions about how good - and not so good - buildings are designed and constructed. Introducing the reader to the rich and varied world of modern architecture, he reveals how architects as diverse as Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, and Robert A. M. Stern envision and create their designs. He teaches us how to read" plans, how buildingsrespond to their settings, and how the smallest detail - of a stair balustrade, for instance - can convey an architect's vision. How Architecture Works explains the central elements that make up good building design, ranging from a war memorial in London to an opera house in Saint Petersburg, from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., to a famous architect's private retreat in Princeton, New Jersey. It is an enlightening humanist's toolkit for thinking about the built environment and seeing it afresh.
How architecture works: a humanist's toolkit
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An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Architecture is both the setting for our everyday lives and a public art form - but it remains mysterious to most of us. In "How architecture works", Witold Rybczynski, answers our most fundamental questions about how good - and not so good - buildings are designed and constructed. Introducing the reader to the rich and varied world of modern architecture, he reveals how architects as diverse as Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, and Robert A. M. Stern envision and create their designs. He teaches us how to read" plans, how buildingsrespond to their settings, and how the smallest detail - of a stair balustrade, for instance - can convey an architect's vision. How Architecture Works explains the central elements that make up good building design, ranging from a war memorial in London to an opera house in Saint Petersburg, from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., to a famous architect's private retreat in Princeton, New Jersey. It is an enlightening humanist's toolkit for thinking about the built environment and seeing it afresh.
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October 2014
October 2014
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Architectural Theory
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In "The NAi effect", Sergio Figueiredo elegantly elucidates the social and cultural aims of architecture museums – arguably the most significant institutions in creating architecture culture as well as directing architectural discourse and practice. By providing a critical survey of the history and the legacy of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi), Figueiredo(...)
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In "The NAi effect", Sergio Figueiredo elegantly elucidates the social and cultural aims of architecture museums – arguably the most significant institutions in creating architecture culture as well as directing architectural discourse and practice. By providing a critical survey of the history and the legacy of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi), Figueiredo(...)
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The NAi effect: creating architecture culture
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In "The NAi effect", Sergio Figueiredo elegantly elucidates the social and cultural aims of architecture museums – arguably the most significant institutions in creating architecture culture as well as directing architectural discourse and practice. By providing a critical survey of the history and the legacy of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi), Figueiredo provides insights to how cultural policy works in practice and how specific national cultural institutions relate to a fast changing global context. This book is a probing study of one of the most important architectural institutions in the world as well as a critical analysis of a fundamental instrument for architecture’s advancement and dissemination since their inception in the early nineteenth century.
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In "The NAi effect", Sergio Figueiredo elegantly elucidates the social and cultural aims of architecture museums – arguably the most significant institutions in creating architecture culture as well as directing architectural discourse and practice. By providing a critical survey of the history and the legacy of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi), Figueiredo provides insights to how cultural policy works in practice and how specific national cultural institutions relate to a fast changing global context. This book is a probing study of one of the most important architectural institutions in the world as well as a critical analysis of a fundamental instrument for architecture’s advancement and dissemination since their inception in the early nineteenth century.
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November 2016
November 2016
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Contemporary Architecture
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This book considers the effects of colonialism, travel, and globalization on the development of modern architecture in Germany from the 1850s until the 1930s. It argues that the rise of a new modern language of architecture within Germany during this period was shaped by the country's colonial and neo-colonial entanglements. Since architectural developments in(...)
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This book considers the effects of colonialism, travel, and globalization on the development of modern architecture in Germany from the 1850s until the 1930s. It argues that the rise of a new modern language of architecture within Germany during this period was shaped by the country's colonial and neo-colonial entanglements. Since architectural developments in(...)
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Colonialism and modern architecture in Germany
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This book considers the effects of colonialism, travel, and globalization on the development of modern architecture in Germany from the 1850s until the 1930s. It argues that the rise of a new modern language of architecture within Germany during this period was shaped by the country's colonial and neo-colonial entanglements. Since architectural developments in nineteenth-century Germany are typically understood as crucial to the evolution of architecture worldwide in the twentieth century, this book globalizes the history of modern architecture at its founding moment.
Colonialism and modern architecture in Germany
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This book considers the effects of colonialism, travel, and globalization on the development of modern architecture in Germany from the 1850s until the 1930s. It argues that the rise of a new modern language of architecture within Germany during this period was shaped by the country's colonial and neo-colonial entanglements. Since architectural developments in nineteenth-century Germany are typically understood as crucial to the evolution of architecture worldwide in the twentieth century, this book globalizes the history of modern architecture at its founding moment.
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June 2017
June 2017
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Cet ouvrage présente les principaux matériaux de l'architecture: le bois et les matériaux de la biomasse, l'acier, les bétons et les liants hydrauliques, les roches naturelles, le verre et les polymères, les matériaux biosourcés. Chacun d'eux fait l'objet d'une description détaillée (contexte historique de leur utilisation, composition et procédés de transformation,(...)
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Cet ouvrage présente les principaux matériaux de l'architecture: le bois et les matériaux de la biomasse, l'acier, les bétons et les liants hydrauliques, les roches naturelles, le verre et les polymères, les matériaux biosourcés. Chacun d'eux fait l'objet d'une description détaillée (contexte historique de leur utilisation, composition et procédés de transformation,(...)
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Matériaux et architecture durable : fabrication 2e éd.
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Cet ouvrage présente les principaux matériaux de l'architecture: le bois et les matériaux de la biomasse, l'acier, les bétons et les liants hydrauliques, les roches naturelles, le verre et les polymères, les matériaux biosourcés. Chacun d'eux fait l'objet d'une description détaillée (contexte historique de leur utilisation, composition et procédés de transformation, propriétés architecturales, constructives et physiques) et d'un bilan environnemental (impact énergétique de leur fabrication, territoires de production et transport, mise en oeuvre sur le chantier, entretien et fin de vie).
Matériaux et architecture durable : fabrication 2e éd.
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Cet ouvrage présente les principaux matériaux de l'architecture: le bois et les matériaux de la biomasse, l'acier, les bétons et les liants hydrauliques, les roches naturelles, le verre et les polymères, les matériaux biosourcés. Chacun d'eux fait l'objet d'une description détaillée (contexte historique de leur utilisation, composition et procédés de transformation, propriétés architecturales, constructives et physiques) et d'un bilan environnemental (impact énergétique de leur fabrication, territoires de production et transport, mise en oeuvre sur le chantier, entretien et fin de vie).
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April 2017
April 2017
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Green Architecture
Green Architecture
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Ce commentaire original et audacieux de l’œuvre d’Adolf Loos éclaire sous d’un jour nouveau des aspects peu connus de cette personnalité éminente de l’histoire de l’architecture. Il entend notamment donner sens aux contradictions et paradoxes – progrès et fixité, érotisme et rationalité, sacré et profane – qui ont longtemps rendu son travail difficile à saisir. Replaçant(...)
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Ce commentaire original et audacieux de l’œuvre d’Adolf Loos éclaire sous d’un jour nouveau des aspects peu connus de cette personnalité éminente de l’histoire de l’architecture. Il entend notamment donner sens aux contradictions et paradoxes – progrès et fixité, érotisme et rationalité, sacré et profane – qui ont longtemps rendu son travail difficile à saisir. Replaçant(...)
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Adolf Loos et l'humour masochiste : l'architecture du phantasme
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Ce commentaire original et audacieux de l’œuvre d’Adolf Loos éclaire sous d’un jour nouveau des aspects peu connus de cette personnalité éminente de l’histoire de l’architecture. Il entend notamment donner sens aux contradictions et paradoxes – progrès et fixité, érotisme et rationalité, sacré et profane – qui ont longtemps rendu son travail difficile à saisir. Replaçant l’analyse dans le contexte viennois de la guerre des idées et de la lutte des sexes, Can Onaner fait appel à des disciplines trop peu souvent mobilisées par les théoriciens de l’architecture, puisant notamment dans la psychanalyse, la philosophie, l’esthétique ou encore la théorie des genres. En énonçant le concept de masochisme en architecture comme nouveau modèle théorique et critique, il propose une réflexion qui pourrait devenir un jalon important dans une nouvelle approche théorique de l’architecture, dans laquelle des concepts comme l’humour et le fantasme apparaissent de plus en plus distinctement comme l’emblème de tout projet architectural inquiet de sa pérennité. Comme un mythe nécessaire, pour ne pas dire fondateur, de toute urbanité.
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Ce commentaire original et audacieux de l’œuvre d’Adolf Loos éclaire sous d’un jour nouveau des aspects peu connus de cette personnalité éminente de l’histoire de l’architecture. Il entend notamment donner sens aux contradictions et paradoxes – progrès et fixité, érotisme et rationalité, sacré et profane – qui ont longtemps rendu son travail difficile à saisir. Replaçant l’analyse dans le contexte viennois de la guerre des idées et de la lutte des sexes, Can Onaner fait appel à des disciplines trop peu souvent mobilisées par les théoriciens de l’architecture, puisant notamment dans la psychanalyse, la philosophie, l’esthétique ou encore la théorie des genres. En énonçant le concept de masochisme en architecture comme nouveau modèle théorique et critique, il propose une réflexion qui pourrait devenir un jalon important dans une nouvelle approche théorique de l’architecture, dans laquelle des concepts comme l’humour et le fantasme apparaissent de plus en plus distinctement comme l’emblème de tout projet architectural inquiet de sa pérennité. Comme un mythe nécessaire, pour ne pas dire fondateur, de toute urbanité.
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November 2019
November 2019
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Architectural Theory
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In this easy-to-use new size, 'Black: Architecture in Monochrome' highlights the elegance of black in the built world through more than 150 structures. From ancient churches to contemporary skyscrapers, Black demonstrates how hues from ebony to onyx have been beloved by architects for centuries. Insightful texts paired with striking photography bring to life these(...)
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In this easy-to-use new size, 'Black: Architecture in Monochrome' highlights the elegance of black in the built world through more than 150 structures. From ancient churches to contemporary skyscrapers, Black demonstrates how hues from ebony to onyx have been beloved by architects for centuries. Insightful texts paired with striking photography bring to life these(...)
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Black: architecture in monochrome, mini edition
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In this easy-to-use new size, 'Black: Architecture in Monochrome' highlights the elegance of black in the built world through more than 150 structures. From ancient churches to contemporary skyscrapers, Black demonstrates how hues from ebony to onyx have been beloved by architects for centuries. Insightful texts paired with striking photography bring to life these captivating buildings including works by Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, David Adjaye, Jean Nouvel, Peter Marino, and Steven Holl.
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In this easy-to-use new size, 'Black: Architecture in Monochrome' highlights the elegance of black in the built world through more than 150 structures. From ancient churches to contemporary skyscrapers, Black demonstrates how hues from ebony to onyx have been beloved by architects for centuries. Insightful texts paired with striking photography bring to life these captivating buildings including works by Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, David Adjaye, Jean Nouvel, Peter Marino, and Steven Holl.
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January 2020
January 2020
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Contemporary Architecture
Contemporary Architecture
