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L'invention du béton armé
L'invention du béton armé
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L'histoire de l'architecture a du mal à relater l'énorme dependance matérielle de son objet. Aujourd'hui, en France tout au moins, les statistiques affirment que 80% du poids de la construction produite annuellement est en béton. Or que sait-on de ce qui fonde cette moderne sujétion? Une figure capitalise toutes les valeurs originelle, et en partie originale, du béton(...)
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L'histoire de l'architecture a du mal à relater l'énorme dependance matérielle de son objet. Aujourd'hui, en France tout au moins, les statistiques affirment que 80% du poids de la construction produite annuellement est en béton. Or que sait-on de ce qui fonde cette moderne sujétion? Une figure capitalise toutes les valeurs originelle, et en partie originale, du béton(...)
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L'histoire de l'architecture a du mal à relater l'énorme dependance matérielle de son objet. Aujourd'hui, en France tout au moins, les statistiques affirment que 80% du poids de la construction produite annuellement est en béton. Or que sait-on de ce qui fonde cette moderne sujétion? Une figure capitalise toutes les valeurs originelle, et en partie originale, du béton armé: elle a pour nom Hennebique. Il fallait en faire le portrait, il fallait en caractériser l'entreprises, il fallait décrire la sorte de magnétisme qui le positionne comme l'incontournable expérimentateur du matériau de la modernité architecturale. Le récit qu'à élaboré Gwenaël Delhumeau autout de la personnalité de François Hennebique répond à ces attentes: il démonte, pièce par pièce, la gigantesque machine que l'entrepreneur a contruite pour faire du béton armé les parois de nos espaces ou la matière de nos horizons. Le béton armé, «marbre du XXe siècle» selon Tadao Ando, méritait qu'on en restitue la paternité. Avec ce livre, c'est chose faite.
L'invention du béton armé
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L'histoire de l'architecture a du mal à relater l'énorme dependance matérielle de son objet. Aujourd'hui, en France tout au moins, les statistiques affirment que 80% du poids de la construction produite annuellement est en béton. Or que sait-on de ce qui fonde cette moderne sujétion? Une figure capitalise toutes les valeurs originelle, et en partie originale, du béton armé: elle a pour nom Hennebique. Il fallait en faire le portrait, il fallait en caractériser l'entreprises, il fallait décrire la sorte de magnétisme qui le positionne comme l'incontournable expérimentateur du matériau de la modernité architecturale. Le récit qu'à élaboré Gwenaël Delhumeau autout de la personnalité de François Hennebique répond à ces attentes: il démonte, pièce par pièce, la gigantesque machine que l'entrepreneur a contruite pour faire du béton armé les parois de nos espaces ou la matière de nos horizons. Le béton armé, «marbre du XXe siècle» selon Tadao Ando, méritait qu'on en restitue la paternité. Avec ce livre, c'est chose faite.
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June 1999, Paris
June 1999, Paris
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Engineering Structures
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Bringing together experts from research and practice, 'Shell Structures for Architecture: Form Finding and Optimization' presents contemporary design methods for shell and gridshell structures, covering form-finding and structural optimization techniques. It introduces architecture and engineering practitioners and students to structural shells and provides computational(...)
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Bringing together experts from research and practice, 'Shell Structures for Architecture: Form Finding and Optimization' presents contemporary design methods for shell and gridshell structures, covering form-finding and structural optimization techniques. It introduces architecture and engineering practitioners and students to structural shells and provides computational(...)
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Shell structures for architecture: form finding and optimization
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Bringing together experts from research and practice, 'Shell Structures for Architecture: Form Finding and Optimization' presents contemporary design methods for shell and gridshell structures, covering form-finding and structural optimization techniques. It introduces architecture and engineering practitioners and students to structural shells and provides computational techniques to develop complex curved structural surfaces, in the form of mathematics, computer algorithms, and design case studies.
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Bringing together experts from research and practice, 'Shell Structures for Architecture: Form Finding and Optimization' presents contemporary design methods for shell and gridshell structures, covering form-finding and structural optimization techniques. It introduces architecture and engineering practitioners and students to structural shells and provides computational techniques to develop complex curved structural surfaces, in the form of mathematics, computer algorithms, and design case studies.
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June 2014
June 2014
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Precast prestressed concrete (PC) and steel are the two structural materials that have been considered for the production of honeycomb tubes. While this book was created to introduce the concept of steel honeycomb tubes, in this introductory chapter we present honeycomb tube structures that feature precast prestressed concrete (PC honeycomb tubes) dubbed as 'HTA'(...)
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Precast prestressed concrete (PC) and steel are the two structural materials that have been considered for the production of honeycomb tubes. While this book was created to introduce the concept of steel honeycomb tubes, in this introductory chapter we present honeycomb tube structures that feature precast prestressed concrete (PC honeycomb tubes) dubbed as 'HTA'(...)
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Engineering Structures
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February 2008
February 2008
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Honeycomb dynamics architecture
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Precast prestressed concrete (PC) and steel are the two structural materials that have been considered for the production of honeycomb tubes. While this book was created to introduce the concept of steel honeycomb tubes, in this introductory chapter we present honeycomb tube structures that feature precast prestressed concrete (PC honeycomb tubes) dubbed as 'HTA' (Honeycomb Tube Architecture), which served as precedent. In addition to a summary of Honeycomb Tube Architecture, a book published in December 2006 to exhibit concepts of PC honeycomb tubes, here, we present the results of tests on a 1/3 scale mock-up of the structural system that were conducted in April 2007 along with actual works of architecture being planned for execution.
Honeycomb dynamics architecture
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Precast prestressed concrete (PC) and steel are the two structural materials that have been considered for the production of honeycomb tubes. While this book was created to introduce the concept of steel honeycomb tubes, in this introductory chapter we present honeycomb tube structures that feature precast prestressed concrete (PC honeycomb tubes) dubbed as 'HTA' (Honeycomb Tube Architecture), which served as precedent. In addition to a summary of Honeycomb Tube Architecture, a book published in December 2006 to exhibit concepts of PC honeycomb tubes, here, we present the results of tests on a 1/3 scale mock-up of the structural system that were conducted in April 2007 along with actual works of architecture being planned for execution.
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February 2008
February 2008
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Alternately lauded as the future of architecture or dismissed as pure folly, revolving buildings are a fascinating missing chapter in architectural history with surprising relevance to issues in contemporary architectural design. Rotating structures have been employed to solve problems and create effects that stationary buildings can't achieve. Rotating buildings offered(...)
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Alternately lauded as the future of architecture or dismissed as pure folly, revolving buildings are a fascinating missing chapter in architectural history with surprising relevance to issues in contemporary architectural design. Rotating structures have been employed to solve problems and create effects that stationary buildings can't achieve. Rotating buildings offered(...)
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Revolving Architecture: a history of buildings that rotate, swivel, and pivot
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Alternately lauded as the future of architecture or dismissed as pure folly, revolving buildings are a fascinating missing chapter in architectural history with surprising relevance to issues in contemporary architectural design. Rotating structures have been employed to solve problems and create effects that stationary buildings can't achieve. Rotating buildings offered ever-changing vistas and made interior spaces more flexible and adaptable. They were used to impress visitors, treat patients, and improve the green qualities of a structure by keeping particular rooms in or out of the sun. The follow-up to his critically acclaimed book A-frame, Chad Randl's Revolving Architecture: A History of Buildings that Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot explores the history of this unique building type, investigating the cultural forces that have driven people to design and inhabit them. Revolving Architecture is packed with a variety of fantastic revolving structures such as a jail that kept inmates under a warden's constant surveillance, glamorous revolving restaurants, tuberculosis treatment wards, houses, theaters, and even a contemporary residential building whose full-floor apartments circle independently of each other. International examples from the late 1800s though the present demonstrate the variety and innovation of these dynamic structures.
Revolving Architecture: a history of buildings that rotate, swivel, and pivot
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Alternately lauded as the future of architecture or dismissed as pure folly, revolving buildings are a fascinating missing chapter in architectural history with surprising relevance to issues in contemporary architectural design. Rotating structures have been employed to solve problems and create effects that stationary buildings can't achieve. Rotating buildings offered ever-changing vistas and made interior spaces more flexible and adaptable. They were used to impress visitors, treat patients, and improve the green qualities of a structure by keeping particular rooms in or out of the sun. The follow-up to his critically acclaimed book A-frame, Chad Randl's Revolving Architecture: A History of Buildings that Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot explores the history of this unique building type, investigating the cultural forces that have driven people to design and inhabit them. Revolving Architecture is packed with a variety of fantastic revolving structures such as a jail that kept inmates under a warden's constant surveillance, glamorous revolving restaurants, tuberculosis treatment wards, houses, theaters, and even a contemporary residential building whose full-floor apartments circle independently of each other. International examples from the late 1800s though the present demonstrate the variety and innovation of these dynamic structures.
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July 2008, New York
July 2008, New York
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Engineering Structures
Engineering Structures
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Siteless 1001 building forms
Siteless 1001 building forms
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Some may call it the first manifesto of the twenty-first century, for it lays down a new way to think about architecture. Others may think of it as the last architectural treatise, for it provides a discursive container for ideas that would otherwise be lost. Whatever genre it belongs to, SITELESS is a new kind of architecture book that seems to have come out of nowhere.(...)
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Some may call it the first manifesto of the twenty-first century, for it lays down a new way to think about architecture. Others may think of it as the last architectural treatise, for it provides a discursive container for ideas that would otherwise be lost. Whatever genre it belongs to, SITELESS is a new kind of architecture book that seems to have come out of nowhere.(...)
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Siteless 1001 building forms
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Some may call it the first manifesto of the twenty-first century, for it lays down a new way to think about architecture. Others may think of it as the last architectural treatise, for it provides a discursive container for ideas that would otherwise be lost. Whatever genre it belongs to, SITELESS is a new kind of architecture book that seems to have come out of nowhere. Its author, a young French architect practicing in Tokyo, admits he "didn't do this out of reverence toward architecture, but rather out of a profound boredom with the discipline, as a sort of compulsive reaction." What would happen, he asks, if architects liberated their minds from the constraints of site, program, and budget? The result is a book that is saturated with forms, and as free of words as any architecture book the MIT Press has ever published.
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Some may call it the first manifesto of the twenty-first century, for it lays down a new way to think about architecture. Others may think of it as the last architectural treatise, for it provides a discursive container for ideas that would otherwise be lost. Whatever genre it belongs to, SITELESS is a new kind of architecture book that seems to have come out of nowhere. Its author, a young French architect practicing in Tokyo, admits he "didn't do this out of reverence toward architecture, but rather out of a profound boredom with the discipline, as a sort of compulsive reaction." What would happen, he asks, if architects liberated their minds from the constraints of site, program, and budget? The result is a book that is saturated with forms, and as free of words as any architecture book the MIT Press has ever published.
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March 2008, Cambridge
March 2008, Cambridge
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Engineering Structures
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Soft canopies
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Eight international innovative examples of the use of textile canopies illustrate the current technology in the field.
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Eight international innovative examples of the use of textile canopies illustrate the current technology in the field.
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Soft canopies
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Eight international innovative examples of the use of textile canopies illustrate the current technology in the field.
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Eight international innovative examples of the use of textile canopies illustrate the current technology in the field.
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April 1996, London
April 1996, London
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Engineering Structures
Engineering Structures
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Canaux. Rivières des hommes
Canaux. Rivières des hommes
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C'est entre le XVIIe et le XIXe siècle que s'est constitué, en France, un important réseau de canaux de navigation. Vaste entreprise, l'art de rassembler et de conduire les eaux a connu des phases successives d'expérimentations, de théorisations et de réalisations parfois contradictoires. Les ouvrages techniques qui en découlent n'en sont pas moins des oeuvres d'art dont(...)
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C'est entre le XVIIe et le XIXe siècle que s'est constitué, en France, un important réseau de canaux de navigation. Vaste entreprise, l'art de rassembler et de conduire les eaux a connu des phases successives d'expérimentations, de théorisations et de réalisations parfois contradictoires. Les ouvrages techniques qui en découlent n'en sont pas moins des oeuvres d'art dont(...)
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Canaux. Rivières des hommes
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C'est entre le XVIIe et le XIXe siècle que s'est constitué, en France, un important réseau de canaux de navigation. Vaste entreprise, l'art de rassembler et de conduire les eaux a connu des phases successives d'expérimentations, de théorisations et de réalisations parfois contradictoires. Les ouvrages techniques qui en découlent n'en sont pas moins des oeuvres d'art dont l'esthétique bien spécifique est celle des ingénieurs des XVIIIe et XIX siècle. La qualité architecturale des écluses, des ponts-canaux, des barrages d'alimentation en eau, des maisons éclusières intégrées dans un paysage redessiné fait des canaux des lieux où se mêlent patrimoine bâti et patrimoine naturel.
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C'est entre le XVIIe et le XIXe siècle que s'est constitué, en France, un important réseau de canaux de navigation. Vaste entreprise, l'art de rassembler et de conduire les eaux a connu des phases successives d'expérimentations, de théorisations et de réalisations parfois contradictoires. Les ouvrages techniques qui en découlent n'en sont pas moins des oeuvres d'art dont l'esthétique bien spécifique est celle des ingénieurs des XVIIIe et XIX siècle. La qualité architecturale des écluses, des ponts-canaux, des barrages d'alimentation en eau, des maisons éclusières intégrées dans un paysage redessiné fait des canaux des lieux où se mêlent patrimoine bâti et patrimoine naturel.
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May 1995, Paris
May 1995, Paris
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Savoir construire
Savoir construire
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Nervi fut l'un des rares ingénieurs des temps modernes qui ait cherché - et réussi - à intégrer dans ses réalisations l'héritage romain et rationaliste. C'est peut-être la raison pour laquelle il sut donner au béton armé élégance et légèreté. Comme tout ingénieur, il s'efforçait d'abord «de résoudre des problèmes d'ordre technique et économique: rechercher la solution(...)
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Nervi fut l'un des rares ingénieurs des temps modernes qui ait cherché - et réussi - à intégrer dans ses réalisations l'héritage romain et rationaliste. C'est peut-être la raison pour laquelle il sut donner au béton armé élégance et légèreté. Comme tout ingénieur, il s'efforçait d'abord «de résoudre des problèmes d'ordre technique et économique: rechercher la solution(...)
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Savoir construire
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Nervi fut l'un des rares ingénieurs des temps modernes qui ait cherché - et réussi - à intégrer dans ses réalisations l'héritage romain et rationaliste. C'est peut-être la raison pour laquelle il sut donner au béton armé élégance et légèreté. Comme tout ingénieur, il s'efforçait d'abord «de résoudre des problèmes d'ordre technique et économique: rechercher la solution adéquate, fatale presque, parce que logique - comme l'on fait les créateurs de Concorde. Concorde n'est pas le fait de l'imagination. C'est la réponse la plus proche de la perfection aux contraintes techniques. Ce bel avion devait fatalement être ce qu'il est». Pour Nervi, la bonne réponse technique et économique était inévitablement belle. Il l'a montré en couvrant hangard, salles de sports, usines - mais aussi la salle de conférence de l'Unesco à Paris et la salle d'audience du pape à Rome -, de lignes fines, entrecroisées ou pliées... Un technicien qui fait rêver.
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Nervi fut l'un des rares ingénieurs des temps modernes qui ait cherché - et réussi - à intégrer dans ses réalisations l'héritage romain et rationaliste. C'est peut-être la raison pour laquelle il sut donner au béton armé élégance et légèreté. Comme tout ingénieur, il s'efforçait d'abord «de résoudre des problèmes d'ordre technique et économique: rechercher la solution adéquate, fatale presque, parce que logique - comme l'on fait les créateurs de Concorde. Concorde n'est pas le fait de l'imagination. C'est la réponse la plus proche de la perfection aux contraintes techniques. Ce bel avion devait fatalement être ce qu'il est». Pour Nervi, la bonne réponse technique et économique était inévitablement belle. Il l'a montré en couvrant hangard, salles de sports, usines - mais aussi la salle de conférence de l'Unesco à Paris et la salle d'audience du pape à Rome -, de lignes fines, entrecroisées ou pliées... Un technicien qui fait rêver.
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June 1997, Paris
June 1997, Paris
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Engineering Structures
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This book chronicles some of the world's greatest engineering wonders from ancient times to the present including the longest bridges, the highest dams, the tallest buildings, and the grandest cathedrals. With more than 400 photographs, detailed diagrams and period engravings.
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This book chronicles some of the world's greatest engineering wonders from ancient times to the present including the longest bridges, the highest dams, the tallest buildings, and the grandest cathedrals. With more than 400 photographs, detailed diagrams and period engravings.
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Engineering Structures
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May 1998, Washington, DC
May 1998, Washington, DC
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The builders : marvels of engineering
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This book chronicles some of the world's greatest engineering wonders from ancient times to the present including the longest bridges, the highest dams, the tallest buildings, and the grandest cathedrals. With more than 400 photographs, detailed diagrams and period engravings.
The builders : marvels of engineering
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This book chronicles some of the world's greatest engineering wonders from ancient times to the present including the longest bridges, the highest dams, the tallest buildings, and the grandest cathedrals. With more than 400 photographs, detailed diagrams and period engravings.
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May 1998, Washington, DC
May 1998, Washington, DC
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Photographs by Colin Baxter.
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Photographs by Colin Baxter.
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Engineering Structures
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October 1996, Stuttgart
October 1996, Stuttgart
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John Fowler, Benjamin Baker : Forth Bridge
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Photographs by Colin Baxter.
John Fowler, Benjamin Baker : Forth Bridge
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Photographs by Colin Baxter.
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October 1996, Stuttgart
October 1996, Stuttgart
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Engineering Structures
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