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  • Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy's Architecture and Biopolitics by Preciado, Paul
    Paul Preciado

    Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy's Architecture and Biopolitics

    Published for the first time in 1953, Playboy was not only the first pornographic popular magazine in America; it also came to embody an entirely new lifestyle through the construction of a series of utopian multimedia spaces -- from the Playboy Mansion and fictional...
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  • Learning from Las Vegas, Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form by Venturi, Robert
    Robert Venturi

    Learning from Las Vegas, Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form

    Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections of "heroic," self-aggrandizing monuments.This revision includes the full texts of...
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  • The Architecture of Downtown Troy: An Illustrated History by Waite, Diana S.
    Diana S. Waite

    The Architecture of Downtown Troy: An Illustrated History

    Diana S. Waite is president of Mount Ida Press in Albany, New York. She is the author of Ornamental Ironwork: Two Centuries of Craftsmanship in Albany and Troy, New York and editor of Architects in Albany and Albany Architecture: A Guide to the City.Author:...
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  • The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings by Kushner, Marc
    Marc Kushner

    The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings

    The founder of Architizer.com and practicing architect draws on his unique position at the crossroads of architecture and social media to highlight 100 important buildings that embody the future of architecture. We're asking more of architecture than ever before; the response will define our...
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  • Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning by Roth, Leland M.
    Leland M. Roth

    Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning

    This widely acclaimed, beautifully illustrated survey of Western architecture is now fully revised throughout, including essays on non-Western traditions. The expanded book vividly examines the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture in ways that are both accessible and engaging.Author: Leland M. RothISBN-10: 0813349036ISBN-13:...
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  • The Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright by Schrenk, Lisa D.
    Lisa D. Schrenk

    The Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright

    Between 1898 and 1909, Frank Lloyd Wright's residential studio in the idyllic Chicago suburb of Oak Park served as a nontraditional work setting as he matured into a leader in his field and formulized his iconic design ideology. Here, architectural historian Lisa D. Schrenk...
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  • Domesticity at War by Colomina, Beatriz
    Beatriz Colomina

    Domesticity at War

    When American architects, designers, and cultural institutions converted wartime strategies to new ends, the aggressive promotion of postwar domestic bliss became another kind of weapon.In the years immediately following World War II, America embraced modern architecture--not as something imported from Europe, but as an...
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  • Stories from Architecture: Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter by Lewis, Philippa
    Philippa Lewis

    Stories from Architecture: Behind the Lines at Drawing Matter

    The imagined histories of twenty-five architectural drawings and models, told through reminiscences, stories, conversations, letters, and monologues. Even when an architectural drawing does not show any human figures, we can imagine many different characters just off the page: architects, artists, onlookers, clients, builders, developers,...
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  • Kind of Boring: Canonical Work and Other Visible Things Meant to Be Viewed as Architecture: Canonical Work and Other Visible Things Meant to Be Viewed by Preissner, Paul
    Paul Preissner

    Kind of Boring: Canonical Work and Other Visible Things Meant to Be Viewed as Architecture: Canonical Work and Other Visible Things Meant to Be Viewed

    Kind Of is a book presenting the work of Paul Preissner in a form of manifesto looking at the loose and varied origins of ideas that make room for intuition, blandness and confusion resulting in work which takes on a different type of politics:...
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  • The Feeling of Things by Adam Caruso by Caruso, Adam
    Adam Caruso

    The Feeling of Things by Adam Caruso

    Key writings by a principal of the London-based architecture firm Caruso St. JohnA principal of the London-based architecture firm Caruso St. John, "Gritty Brit" Adam Caruso has been writing intensively since the mid-1990s. His essays, published in The Architect's Journal, OASE, Blueprint and Tate,...
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  • The Octagon House: A Home for All by Fowler, Orson Squire
    Orson Squire Fowler

    The Octagon House: A Home for All

    In the mid-19th Century America was host to a curious architectural trend: the octagonal house. Such eight-sided homes-as well as schools, churches, barns, and businesses-were popping up across the country so quickly that by 1857 over 1,000 had been built. Though the craze has...
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  • A Global History of Architecture by Ching, Francis D. K.
    Francis D. K. Ching

    A Global History of Architecture

    A GLOBAL HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE NOW FEATURING ADDITIONAL COVERAGE OF CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE AND MORE SUPERB DRAWINGS BY FRANCIS D.K. CHING! The book that forever changed the way architectural history is viewed, taught, and studied, A Global History of Architecture examines 5,000 years of...
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  • Drawing for Architecture by Krier, Leon
    Leon Krier

    Drawing for Architecture

    Drawings, doodles, and ideograms argue with ferocity and wit for traditional urbanism and architecture.Architect L on Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images, without the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and grace, these clever sketches do not try to please or...
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  • In Search of African American Space: Redressing Racism by Hogrefe, Jeffrey
    Jeffrey Hogrefe

    In Search of African American Space: Redressing Racism

    Drawing on architecture, performance art, history and visual theory, In Search of African American Space explores the creative relationship between the African diaspora and social space in America Richly illustrated with vintage adverts, maps, posters and architectural plans, and organized thematically, this anthology, edited...
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  • A Philosopher Looks at Architecture by Guyer, Paul
    Paul Guyer

    A Philosopher Looks at Architecture

    What should our buildings look like? Or is their usability more important than their appearance? Paul Guyer argues that the fundamental goals of architecture first identified by the Roman architect Marcus Pollio Vitruvius - good construction, functionality, and aesthetic appeal - have remained valid...
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  • Buildings in Print: 100 Influential & Inspiring Illustrated Architecture Books by Hill, John
    John Hill

    Buildings in Print: 100 Influential & Inspiring Illustrated Architecture Books

    This unique volume showcases the best illustrated architecture books ever published. The author, John Hill, is the founder of the hugely influential architecture blog A Daily Dose of Architecture, which recently shifted course to focus entirely on architecture books of all kinds. His selection...
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  • Architecture in the 20th Century by Gossel, Peter
    Peter Gossel

    Architecture in the 20th Century

    From Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank O. Gehry to Antoni Gaudí, Shigeru Ban and all the best in between, this essential guide celebrates 100 years of the finest architecture. Large-format photos, drawings, and floor plans, along with a chronological overview, reveal the ideas and...
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  • Casa Bohemia: The Spanish-Style House by Paul, Linda Leigh
    Linda Leigh Paul

    Casa Bohemia: The Spanish-Style House

    A celebration of the uniquely vibrant architecture and interiors of classic and new Spanish-style houses in the southwestern and southern United States, Mexico, and Spain. Casa Bohemia showcases a collection of some of the most beautifully preserved Spanish style houses, from restored haciendas in...
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  • Mid-Michigan Modern, Expanded Edition: From Frank Lloyd Wright to Googie by Bandes, Susan J.
    Susan J. Bandes

    Mid-Michigan Modern, Expanded Edition: From Frank Lloyd Wright to Googie

    From 1940 to 1970, mid‐Michigan had an extensive and varied legacy of modernist architecture by well‐known architects and regional firms. Through Susan Bandes's archival research and oral histories, the reader will see a picture emerge in the portrayal of buildings of various typologies, from...
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  • Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession by de Graaf, Reinier
    Reinier de Graaf

    Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession

    A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year "Sharp, revealing, funny."--The Guardian "An original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and finding them again... [De Graaf] deftly shows that architecture cannot be better or more...
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  • Cornell Journal of Architecture 12: After by Warke, Val
    Val Warke

    Cornell Journal of Architecture 12: After

    Organized around a timeline that demonstrates the range of "presents" and "afters" we find ourselves contemplating, this volume of the Cornell Journal of Architecture considers our terrestrial occupations from a variety of real and imagined perspectives, from the prehistoric to the future-imperfect. It seems...
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  • Twenty Minutes in Manhattan by Sorkin, Michael
    Michael Sorkin

    Twenty Minutes in Manhattan

    Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn't in a hurry, and he never ignores his surroundings. Instead, he pays careful, close attention. And in Twenty Minutes in...
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  • Skyroom: The Journey of Brian and Marilyn Mackay-Lyons at Shobac, a Seaside Village on the Edge of Architectural and Utopian Po by Gaudet, Larry
    Larry Gaudet

    Skyroom: The Journey of Brian and Marilyn Mackay-Lyons at Shobac, a Seaside Village on the Edge of Architectural and Utopian Po

    In SkyRoom, novelist Larry Gaudet tells the story of Shobac, a seaside village recognized internationally as the masterwork of famed Canadian architect Brian Mackay-Lyons. In partnership with his wife Marilyn Mackay-Lyons and their family, he has built a unique community over the granite ruins...
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  • O'Neil Ford on Architecture by O'Rourke, Kathryn
    Kathryn O'Rourke

    O'Neil Ford on Architecture

    Winner, Publication Award, Southeastern Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH), 2019Acclaimed for his designs of the Trinity University campus, the Little Chapel in the Woods, the Texas Instruments Semiconductor Components Division Building, and numerous private houses, O'Neil Ford (1905-1982) was an important...
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  • The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture, and Music by Wilkins, Craig L.
    Craig L. Wilkins

    The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture, and Music

    Architecture is often thought to be a diary of a society, filled with symbolic representations of specific cultural moments. However, as Craig L. Wilkins observes, that diary includes far too few narratives of the diverse cultures in U.S. society. Wilkins states that the discipline...
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  • Pocket Guide to Chicago Architecture by McBrien, Judith Paine
    Judith Paine McBrien

    Pocket Guide to Chicago Architecture

    Updated and expanded to chart Chicago's evolving urban landscape, the third edition of this popular handbook is the perfect companion for self-guided walking tours, as well as an excellent source of information for those wishing to explore the internationally acclaimed architecture of Chicago. Over...
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  • Cleveland Architecture 1890-1930: Building the City Beautiful by Love, Jeannine Denobel
    Jeannine Denobel Love

    Cleveland Architecture 1890-1930: Building the City Beautiful

    This study looks at the architectural transformation of Cleveland during its "golden age"--roughly the period between post-Civil War reconstruction and World War I. By the early twentieth century, Cleveland, which would evolve into the fifth largest city in America, hoped to shed the gritty...
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life by Huxtable, Ada Louise
    Ada Louise Huxtable

    Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life

    Pulitzer Prize?winning critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography of America's greatest architect Renowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography Frank Lloyd Wright looks at the architect and the man, from his tumultuous personal life to his long career as a master builder. Along the way...
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  • Rewriting Architecture: 10+1 Actions for an Adaptive Architecture by Alkemade, Floris
    Floris Alkemade

    Rewriting Architecture: 10+1 Actions for an Adaptive Architecture

    Contemporary thinkers from Hito Steyerl to Atelier Bow-Wow explore how architecture can adapt to--rather than replace--the existing built environmentThis volume considers existing urban contexts as an opportunity to use the potential of place, and the creativity of inhabitants and users, the power of the...
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  • Mies Van Der Rohe: Barcelona-1929 by Capdevila-Werning, Remei
    Remei Capdevila-Werning

    Mies Van Der Rohe: Barcelona-1929

    The expert contributors to this lavishly illustrated volume, devoted entirely to Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion of 1929, address here for the first time the forgotten contexts of the Pavilion's genesis. Habitually thought of as an abstract, unpolluted, and splendidly isolated building--a precursor...
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  • Not Interesting: On the Limits of Criticism in Architecture by Atwood, Andrew
    Andrew Atwood

    Not Interesting: On the Limits of Criticism in Architecture

    Not Interesting proposes another set of terms and structures to talk about architecture, without requiring that it be interesting. This book explores a set of alternatives to the interesting and imagines how architecture might be positioned more broadly in the world using other terms:...
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  • Lost Cincinnati by Suess, Jeff
    Jeff Suess

    Lost Cincinnati

    Cincinnati earned its nickname of Queen City of the West with a wealth of fine theaters and hotels, a burgeoning brewery district and the birth of professional baseball. Though many of these treasures have vanished, they left an indelible mark on the city. Revisit...
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  • Imaginary Cities: A Tour of Dream Cities, Nightmare Cities, and Everywhere in Between by Anderson, Darran
    Darran Anderson

    Imaginary Cities: A Tour of Dream Cities, Nightmare Cities, and Everywhere in Between

    For as long as humans have gathered in cities, those cities have had their shining--or shadowy--counterparts. Imaginary cities, potential cities, future cities, perfect cities. It is as if the city itself, its inescapable gritty reality and elbow-to-elbow nature, demands we call into being some...
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  • Portals: Pedagogy, Practice, and Architecture's Future Imaginary (Risd 2020) by Catania Kulper, Amy
    Amy Catania Kulper

    Portals: Pedagogy, Practice, and Architecture's Future Imaginary (Risd 2020)

    Portals: Pedagogy, Practice, and Architecture's Future Imaginary considers the COVID-19 pandemic and the remote pedagogy it occasioned globally in schools of architecture, as a critical threshold to future architectural pedagogy, practice, and spatial imaginaries. Given that the conceit of a "return to normal" is...
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  • Co-Habitats by Sarkis, Hashim
    Hashim Sarkis

    Co-Habitats

    Imagining the future of cohabitation in Venice and beyondConceived as a record that delves deeper into a special section of the Biennale Architettura 2021, Co-habitats comprises essays and photo essays that pertain to specific geographic locations. While the main exhibition is primarily organized in...
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  • 20x14. Reflections on Studying Architecture Abroad by Pisani, Franco
    Franco Pisani

    20x14. Reflections on Studying Architecture Abroad

    20x14, Reflections on Studying Architecture Abroad: twenty suggestions (or paternal exhortations, if you will) for the fourteen weeks of a regular academic semester. Twenty reflections (written during the 2020 lockdown in Firenze) that I have drawn from twenty years of teaching architecture students abroad....
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  • The Cannibal's Cookbook: Mining Myths of Cyclopean Constructions by Clifford, Brandon
    Brandon Clifford

    The Cannibal's Cookbook: Mining Myths of Cyclopean Constructions

    The Cannibal's Cookbook fiercely consumes the body of past cyclopean constructions. It assembles, re-packages, and offers this latent knowledge for your contemporary consumption. It is a manual for the hungry, for those who are not satiated by the careless building practices of the present....
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  • From Bauhaus to Our House by Wolfe, Tom
    Tom Wolfe

    From Bauhaus to Our House

    After critiquing--and infuriating--the art world with The Painted Word, award-winning author Tom Wolfe shared his less than favorable thoughts about modern architecture in From Bauhaus to Our House. In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth century architecture, Wolfe takes such European architects...
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  • The City of Imagination by Morabito, Valerio
    Valerio Morabito

    The City of Imagination

    It is in the wilderness of cities rather than in nature that the imagination of these landscape drawings comes to life. Without any heroic emphasis, these drawings result from the observation of traces, evident or discreet, in the urban landscape, and the process to...
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  • Arthur Erickson on Learning Systems by Erickson, Arthur
    Arthur Erickson

    Arthur Erickson on Learning Systems

    Collected writings from an interdisciplinary architect and educator. Whether he was designing buildings and spaces for universities, museums, performing arts, or libraries, Arthur Erickson was preoccupied with intersections--of people, cultures, and ideas. Arthur Erickson on Learning Systems collects writings by an architect advocating for...
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  • A History of Western Architecture by Watkin, David
    David Watkin

    A History of Western Architecture

    In this highly acclaimed reference work David Watkin traces the history of western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the eclectic styles of the twenty-first century. The author emphasizes the ongoing vitality of the Classical language of architecture, underlining the...
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  • MVRDV Buildings: Updated Edition by Mvrdv
    Mvrdv

    MVRDV Buildings: Updated Edition

    MVRDV is a Rotterdam-based architecture and urban design practice founded in 1993 (its name is an acronym for founding members Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries). In cooperation with Ilka and Andreas Ruby, MVRDV assembled a monographic overview of 20 years...
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  • Sexuality & Space by Colomina, Beatriz
    Beatriz Colomina

    Sexuality & Space

    Sexuality & Space's interdisciplinary essays address gender in relation to architectural discourse and critical theory, focusing on the relationships between sexuality and space hidden within everyday practices. Contributors include Jennifer Bloomer, Victor Burgin, Beatriz Colomina, Elizabeth Grosz, Catherine Ingraham, Meaghan Morris, Laura Mulvey, Molly...
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  • How to Read Churches: A Crash Course in Ecclesiastical Architecture by McNamara, Denis R.
    Denis R. McNamara

    How to Read Churches: A Crash Course in Ecclesiastical Architecture

    Small enough to fit in a pocket yet serious enough to provide real answers, this primer is a must-have for architecture and history buffs, tourists, and churchgoers interested in decoding the styles and symbols of religious buildings. Every building contains clues embedded in its...
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  • City, Civility and Capitalism: A Historical Perspective by Almqvist, Kurt
    Kurt Almqvist

    City, Civility and Capitalism: A Historical Perspective

    How architecture and trade foster civic and urban health, from the Renaissance to BrexitWhat role does architecture and trade play in creating civilized societies? How can we create urban environments where the individual can flourish? These questions have taken on a new significance as...
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  • Who's Next: Homelessness, Architecture and Cities by Talesnik, Daniel
    Daniel Talesnik

    Who's Next: Homelessness, Architecture and Cities

    Homelessness-the state of having no home-is a growing global problem that requires local discussions and solutions. In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, it has noticeably become a collective concern. However, in recent years, the official political discourse in many countries around the world...
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  • AA Book 2021 by Communications Studio, Aa
    Aa Communications Studio

    AA Book 2021

    The AA Book 2021 celebrates the depth of research and plurality of practice pursued at the Architectural Association (AA) during the 2020-21 academic year. The publication features hundreds of projects by students from every unit and program within the school, which together document the...
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  • Gropius by Sigel
    Gilbert Lupfer &. Paul Sigel

    Gropius

    Walter Gropius (1883-1969) set out to build for the future. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, the Berlin-born architect had an inestimable influence on our aesthetic environment, championing a bold new hybrid of light, geometry, and industrial design, as dazzling today as it...
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  • AA Files 78 by Giudici, Maria Sheherazade
    Maria Sheherazade Giudici

    AA Files 78

    AA Files is the Architectural Association's (AA) journal of record. Currently under the editorship of Maria Sh馼駻azade Giudici, AA Files looks to promote original and engaging writing on architecture. It does this by drawing both on the AA's own academic research, public programme, exhibitions...
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  • Kazuo Shinohara: Traversing the House and the City by Shinohara, Kazuo
    Kazuo Shinohara

    Kazuo Shinohara: Traversing the House and the City

    Kazuo Shinohara (1925-2006) is one of the greatest and most influential architects of Japan's postwar generation. He created sublimely beautiful, purist houses that have reconfigured and enriched our understanding of domesticity, tradition, structure, scale, nature and the city. The underlying formalism in Shinohara's architecture...
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