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Conceived in the 1960s, Walt Disney's original plans for his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT) outlined a utopian laboratory for domestic technology, where families would live, work, and play in an integrated environment. Like many of his contemporaries, Disney imagined homes that would attend to their inhabitants' every need, and he regarded the home(...)
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Conceived in the 1960s, Walt Disney's original plans for his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT) outlined a utopian laboratory for domestic technology, where families would live, work, and play in an integrated environment. Like many of his contemporaries, Disney imagined homes that would attend to their inhabitants' every need, and he regarded the home(...)
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A small world: smart houses and the dream of the perfect day
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Conceived in the 1960s, Walt Disney's original plans for his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT) outlined a utopian laboratory for domestic technology, where families would live, work, and play in an integrated environment. Like many of his contemporaries, Disney imagined homes that would attend to their inhabitants' every need, and he regarded the home as a site of unending technological progress. This fixation on "space-age" technology, with its promise of domestic bliss, marked an important mid-twentieth-century shift in understandings of the American home. In A Small World, Davin Heckman considers how domestic technologies that free people to enjoy leisure time in the home have come to be understood as necessary parts of everyday life.
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Conceived in the 1960s, Walt Disney's original plans for his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT) outlined a utopian laboratory for domestic technology, where families would live, work, and play in an integrated environment. Like many of his contemporaries, Disney imagined homes that would attend to their inhabitants' every need, and he regarded the home as a site of unending technological progress. This fixation on "space-age" technology, with its promise of domestic bliss, marked an important mid-twentieth-century shift in understandings of the American home. In A Small World, Davin Heckman considers how domestic technologies that free people to enjoy leisure time in the home have come to be understood as necessary parts of everyday life.
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March 2008, Durham
March 2008, Durham
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Miniature Architecture
Miniature Architecture
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Plastic bags, newspapers, pizza boxes, razors, watches, diapers, toothbrushes ... What makes a thing disposable? Which of its properties allows us to treat it as if it did not matter, or as if it actually lacked matter? Why do so many objects appear to us as nothing more than brief flashes between checkout-line and landfill? In An Ontology of Trash, Greg Kennedy(...)
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Plastic bags, newspapers, pizza boxes, razors, watches, diapers, toothbrushes ... What makes a thing disposable? Which of its properties allows us to treat it as if it did not matter, or as if it actually lacked matter? Why do so many objects appear to us as nothing more than brief flashes between checkout-line and landfill? In An Ontology of Trash, Greg Kennedy(...)
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An ontolgy of trash: the disposable and its problematic nature
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Plastic bags, newspapers, pizza boxes, razors, watches, diapers, toothbrushes ... What makes a thing disposable? Which of its properties allows us to treat it as if it did not matter, or as if it actually lacked matter? Why do so many objects appear to us as nothing more than brief flashes between checkout-line and landfill? In An Ontology of Trash, Greg Kennedy inquires into the meaning of disposable objects and explores the nature of our prodigious refuse. He takes trash as a real ontological problem resulting from our unsettled relation to nature. The metaphysical drive from immanence to transcendence leaves us in an alien world of objects drained of meaningful physical presence. Consequently, they become interpreted as beings that somehow essentially lack being, and exist in our technological world only to disappear. Kennedy explores this problematic nature and looks for possibilities of salutary change.
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Plastic bags, newspapers, pizza boxes, razors, watches, diapers, toothbrushes ... What makes a thing disposable? Which of its properties allows us to treat it as if it did not matter, or as if it actually lacked matter? Why do so many objects appear to us as nothing more than brief flashes between checkout-line and landfill? In An Ontology of Trash, Greg Kennedy inquires into the meaning of disposable objects and explores the nature of our prodigious refuse. He takes trash as a real ontological problem resulting from our unsettled relation to nature. The metaphysical drive from immanence to transcendence leaves us in an alien world of objects drained of meaningful physical presence. Consequently, they become interpreted as beings that somehow essentially lack being, and exist in our technological world only to disappear. Kennedy explores this problematic nature and looks for possibilities of salutary change.
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February 2008, Albany
February 2008, Albany
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Green Architecture
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La construction et l'entretien d'une maison individuelle, rêves de beaucoup d'entre nous, représentent environ la moitié de toute l'énergie qu'un individu va consommer dans sa vie. Cet ouvrage détaille les méthodes de construction respectueuses de l'environnement et économes en «énergie grise», ainsi que les équipements permettant de capter et d'utiliser au maximum les(...)
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La construction et l'entretien d'une maison individuelle, rêves de beaucoup d'entre nous, représentent environ la moitié de toute l'énergie qu'un individu va consommer dans sa vie. Cet ouvrage détaille les méthodes de construction respectueuses de l'environnement et économes en «énergie grise», ainsi que les équipements permettant de capter et d'utiliser au maximum les(...)
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Construire écolo: pour une maison économe en énergie
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La construction et l'entretien d'une maison individuelle, rêves de beaucoup d'entre nous, représentent environ la moitié de toute l'énergie qu'un individu va consommer dans sa vie. Cet ouvrage détaille les méthodes de construction respectueuses de l'environnement et économes en «énergie grise», ainsi que les équipements permettant de capter et d'utiliser au maximum les énergies renouvelables pour son fonctionnement, voire de fabriquer de l'énergie. A la fois ouvrage de sensibilisation et véritable guide pour le lecteur qui souhaite aller plus loin, ce livre d'un abord très facile fourmille de schémas, tableaux comparatifs et références de sites spécialisés. Plusieurs exemples de réalisations concrètes sont détaillés, de la villa luxueuse à la modeste maison en kit. L'auteur, de par son expertise, a une vision réellement globale de l'habitat écologique, et place son discours dans le contexte européen.
Construire écolo: pour une maison économe en énergie
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La construction et l'entretien d'une maison individuelle, rêves de beaucoup d'entre nous, représentent environ la moitié de toute l'énergie qu'un individu va consommer dans sa vie. Cet ouvrage détaille les méthodes de construction respectueuses de l'environnement et économes en «énergie grise», ainsi que les équipements permettant de capter et d'utiliser au maximum les énergies renouvelables pour son fonctionnement, voire de fabriquer de l'énergie. A la fois ouvrage de sensibilisation et véritable guide pour le lecteur qui souhaite aller plus loin, ce livre d'un abord très facile fourmille de schémas, tableaux comparatifs et références de sites spécialisés. Plusieurs exemples de réalisations concrètes sont détaillés, de la villa luxueuse à la modeste maison en kit. L'auteur, de par son expertise, a une vision réellement globale de l'habitat écologique, et place son discours dans le contexte européen.
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February 2008, Paris
February 2008, Paris
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Green Architecture
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The Italian architect and historian Manfredo Tafuri made a decisive contribution to the practice of architectural history, yet the breadth of his bibliography and the depth of his perception into historical problems remains largely unexplored even today. The first English-language book to consider his contribution to architectural culture, it opens an overdue discussion(...)
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The Italian architect and historian Manfredo Tafuri made a decisive contribution to the practice of architectural history, yet the breadth of his bibliography and the depth of his perception into historical problems remains largely unexplored even today. The first English-language book to consider his contribution to architectural culture, it opens an overdue discussion(...)
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Manfredo Tafuri: choosing history
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The Italian architect and historian Manfredo Tafuri made a decisive contribution to the practice of architectural history, yet the breadth of his bibliography and the depth of his perception into historical problems remains largely unexplored even today. The first English-language book to consider his contribution to architectural culture, it opens an overdue discussion on both the premises of his practice and the historical questions that consequently emerge.
Manfredo Tafuri: choosing history
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The Italian architect and historian Manfredo Tafuri made a decisive contribution to the practice of architectural history, yet the breadth of his bibliography and the depth of his perception into historical problems remains largely unexplored even today. The first English-language book to consider his contribution to architectural culture, it opens an overdue discussion on both the premises of his practice and the historical questions that consequently emerge.
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January 1900
January 1900
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Architectural Theory
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Accompanying Coop Himmelb(l)au’s most comprehensive museum exhibition to date, this book presents the architecture team’s distinctive body of work from the past forty years.
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Accompanying Coop Himmelb(l)au’s most comprehensive museum exhibition to date, this book presents the architecture team’s distinctive body of work from the past forty years.
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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March 2008, Los Angeles, Wien, München, London, New York
March 2008, Los Angeles, Wien, München, London, New York
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CoopHimmelb(l)au : beyond the blue
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Accompanying Coop Himmelb(l)au’s most comprehensive museum exhibition to date, this book presents the architecture team’s distinctive body of work from the past forty years.
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Accompanying Coop Himmelb(l)au’s most comprehensive museum exhibition to date, this book presents the architecture team’s distinctive body of work from the past forty years.
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March 2008, Los Angeles, Wien, München, London, New York
March 2008, Los Angeles, Wien, München, London, New York
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Architecture Monographs
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"Artificial light" suggests an alternative type of critical theory consisting of personal and fictitious anecdotes, real and fake photographs, and mini-essays that addresses prevalent themes in architecture such as immediacy, affect, abstraction, atmosphere, realness, and banality. With a narrative style reminiscent of other unconventional writers on design such as Paul(...)
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"Artificial light" suggests an alternative type of critical theory consisting of personal and fictitious anecdotes, real and fake photographs, and mini-essays that addresses prevalent themes in architecture such as immediacy, affect, abstraction, atmosphere, realness, and banality. With a narrative style reminiscent of other unconventional writers on design such as Paul(...)
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Artificial light : a narrative inquiry into the nature of abstraction, immediacy, and other architectural fictions
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"Artificial light" suggests an alternative type of critical theory consisting of personal and fictitious anecdotes, real and fake photographs, and mini-essays that addresses prevalent themes in architecture such as immediacy, affect, abstraction, atmosphere, realness, and banality. With a narrative style reminiscent of other unconventional writers on design such as Paul Shepheard, Roger Connah, and Rebecca Solnit, "Artificial light" is the beautifully written and visually engaging debut of a dynamic new voice in the world of architectural criticism. Keith Mitnick is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Michigan, where he teaches graduate-level studios and seminars in architectural criticism, and a founding principal of Mitnick Roddier Hicks.
Artificial light : a narrative inquiry into the nature of abstraction, immediacy, and other architectural fictions
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"Artificial light" suggests an alternative type of critical theory consisting of personal and fictitious anecdotes, real and fake photographs, and mini-essays that addresses prevalent themes in architecture such as immediacy, affect, abstraction, atmosphere, realness, and banality. With a narrative style reminiscent of other unconventional writers on design such as Paul Shepheard, Roger Connah, and Rebecca Solnit, "Artificial light" is the beautifully written and visually engaging debut of a dynamic new voice in the world of architectural criticism. Keith Mitnick is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Michigan, where he teaches graduate-level studios and seminars in architectural criticism, and a founding principal of Mitnick Roddier Hicks.
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March 2008, New York
March 2008, New York
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Architectural Theory
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Two hundred and fifty Leisurama houses were built at Culloden Shores in Montauk, Long Island. Most of the homes have since been converted to year -round occupancy, and with very few exceptions, all have been enlarged and redecorated, while the once barren shore is now forested. In a sweet paradox, these once very affordable homes - in the 1960s, for as little as $590 down(...)
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Two hundred and fifty Leisurama houses were built at Culloden Shores in Montauk, Long Island. Most of the homes have since been converted to year -round occupancy, and with very few exceptions, all have been enlarged and redecorated, while the once barren shore is now forested. In a sweet paradox, these once very affordable homes - in the 1960s, for as little as $590 down(...)
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Residential Architecture
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May 2008, New York
May 2008, New York
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Leisurama now: the beach house for everyone. 1964 -
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Two hundred and fifty Leisurama houses were built at Culloden Shores in Montauk, Long Island. Most of the homes have since been converted to year -round occupancy, and with very few exceptions, all have been enlarged and redecorated, while the once barren shore is now forested. In a sweet paradox, these once very affordable homes - in the 1960s, for as little as $590 down and $73 a month, you could walk into Macy's and leave with a fully furnished house - that were looked down upon by more well-to-do neighbors are now desirable and expensive, even "collectable." Their rich legacy lives on in the affordable pages of Leisurama. The different houses are shown each 2 on a page, followed by a map of their location on the beach, as well as the detailed presentation of their interior design in pictures and words, and original documents. Photo Index, Notes on Plates, Bibliographical notes
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Two hundred and fifty Leisurama houses were built at Culloden Shores in Montauk, Long Island. Most of the homes have since been converted to year -round occupancy, and with very few exceptions, all have been enlarged and redecorated, while the once barren shore is now forested. In a sweet paradox, these once very affordable homes - in the 1960s, for as little as $590 down and $73 a month, you could walk into Macy's and leave with a fully furnished house - that were looked down upon by more well-to-do neighbors are now desirable and expensive, even "collectable." Their rich legacy lives on in the affordable pages of Leisurama. The different houses are shown each 2 on a page, followed by a map of their location on the beach, as well as the detailed presentation of their interior design in pictures and words, and original documents. Photo Index, Notes on Plates, Bibliographical notes
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May 2008, New York
May 2008, New York
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Trying Leviathan
Trying Leviathan
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In Trying Leviathan, D.Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular, and biblically sanctioned, view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundace: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational(...)
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In Trying Leviathan, D.Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular, and biblically sanctioned, view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundace: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational(...)
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In Trying Leviathan, D.Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular, and biblically sanctioned, view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundace: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational public debate in which nothing less than the order of nature, and how we know it, was at stake.
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In Trying Leviathan, D.Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular, and biblically sanctioned, view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundace: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational public debate in which nothing less than the order of nature, and how we know it, was at stake.
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October 2007, Princeton
October 2007, Princeton
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Architectural Theory
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Lacaton & Vassal
Lacaton & Vassal
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If we compare the new projects that appear in this substantially updated edition with the set of projects published in the issue of 2G devoted to Lacaton & Vassal in 2002, one development in particular attracts our attention: their projects have become bigger, they increasingly find themselves in urban situations. However, the essential theme of their architecture remains(...)
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If we compare the new projects that appear in this substantially updated edition with the set of projects published in the issue of 2G devoted to Lacaton & Vassal in 2002, one development in particular attracts our attention: their projects have become bigger, they increasingly find themselves in urban situations. However, the essential theme of their architecture remains(...)
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Lacaton & Vassal
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If we compare the new projects that appear in this substantially updated edition with the set of projects published in the issue of 2G devoted to Lacaton & Vassal in 2002, one development in particular attracts our attention: their projects have become bigger, they increasingly find themselves in urban situations. However, the essential theme of their architecture remains unaltered: doubling space through unprogrammed extra space.
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If we compare the new projects that appear in this substantially updated edition with the set of projects published in the issue of 2G devoted to Lacaton & Vassal in 2002, one development in particular attracts our attention: their projects have become bigger, they increasingly find themselves in urban situations. However, the essential theme of their architecture remains unaltered: doubling space through unprogrammed extra space.
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July 2007, Barcelona
July 2007, Barcelona
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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Arata Isozaki
Arata Isozaki
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Arata Isozaki (b. 1931) is one of the most influential architects practicing today. His work blends an Eastern architectural style with emerging global trends, and his theories have been important in bringing Western architecture to Japan. This book presents the most comprehensive selection available of his built and unfinished projects from the beginning of his career to(...)
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Arata Isozaki (b. 1931) is one of the most influential architects practicing today. His work blends an Eastern architectural style with emerging global trends, and his theories have been important in bringing Western architecture to Japan. This book presents the most comprehensive selection available of his built and unfinished projects from the beginning of his career to(...)
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Architecture Monographs
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October 2008, London, New York
October 2008, London, New York
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Arata Isozaki
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Arata Isozaki (b. 1931) is one of the most influential architects practicing today. His work blends an Eastern architectural style with emerging global trends, and his theories have been important in bringing Western architecture to Japan. This book presents the most comprehensive selection available of his built and unfinished projects from the beginning of his career to the present day, and is extensively illustrated with drawings, silkscreens, sketches, and models from the Isozaki Office Archive. Each chapter features introductory essays by Ken Tadashi Oshima and theoretical texts by Isozaki, most of them published here for the first time.
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Arata Isozaki (b. 1931) is one of the most influential architects practicing today. His work blends an Eastern architectural style with emerging global trends, and his theories have been important in bringing Western architecture to Japan. This book presents the most comprehensive selection available of his built and unfinished projects from the beginning of his career to the present day, and is extensively illustrated with drawings, silkscreens, sketches, and models from the Isozaki Office Archive. Each chapter features introductory essays by Ken Tadashi Oshima and theoretical texts by Isozaki, most of them published here for the first time.
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October 2008, London, New York
October 2008, London, New York
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
