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Defensible Space; Crime Prevention Through Urban Design.
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Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
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Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
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The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
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The Art-Architecture Complex
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Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design
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Modern Architecture: A Critical History
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Modern Architecture
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The Living City
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The Natural House
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The Future of Architecture
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Archigram
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Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
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Anti-object: Aa Words 2
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Superstudio: Life without Objects
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The Works: Anatomy of a City
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Universal Principles of Design
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Beauty, Neuroscience, and Architecture: Timeless Patterns and Their Impact on Our Well-Being
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Imagining the Evident
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The Language of Post-Modern Architecture
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Community and Privacy: Toward a New Architecture of Humanism
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acceptera
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Style and Epoch: Issues in Modern Architecture
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Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation: The Question of Creativity in the Shadow of Production
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Made in Tokyo: Guide Book
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A Theory of Architecture
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Condemned Building: An Architect's Pre-Text--Plans, Sections, Elevations, Details, Models, Ideograms, Scriptexts, and Letters for Ten - Allegorical Works of Architecture
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Future Practice
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Case Study Houses
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Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
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The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art, and Architecture
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The BLDG BLOG Book
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Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
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Spatializing Politics: Essays on Power and Place
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Ethics of the Urban: The City and the Spaces of the Political
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Mohsen Mostafavi (Foreword)
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The World as an Architectural Project
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Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space
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What Goes Up: The Right and Wrongs to the City
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost
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The Feeling of Things By Adam Caruso
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Lebbeus Woods: Anarchitecture: Architecture is a Political Act (Architectural Monographs No 22)
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Ghost: Building an Architectural Vision
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Yona Friedman. The Dilution of Architecture
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Cognitive Architecture: Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment
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Toronto Architecture: A City Guide
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A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Vancouver
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A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Toronto
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A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Montreal
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Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius
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The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
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Precedents in Architecture: Analytic Diagrams, Formative Ideas, and Partis
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Analysing Architecture
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Simon Unwin (Goodreads Author)
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Constructing a New Agenda: Architectural Theory 1993-2009
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Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965-1995
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Kate Nesbitt (editor)
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Notes on the Synthesis of Form
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The Phenomenon of Life
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How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit
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The Production of Space
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Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space
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The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
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Delirious New York
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Towards a New Architecture
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The Architecture of Happiness
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S, M, L, XL
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Architecture and Disjunction
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Cities for People
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Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture
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Modern Architecture Since 1900
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Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition
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From Bauhaus to Our House
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The Seven Lamps of Architecture
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Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
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The Timeless Way of Building
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Atmospheres: Architectural Environments. Surrounding Objects
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Architecture As Space
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Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
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Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
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The Ten Books on Architecture
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The Hidden Dimension
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The Four Books of Architecture
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The Image of the City
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The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books)
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Neufert Architects' Data, Third Edition
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Thomas Heatherwick: Making
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Experiencing Architecture
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Blinking and Flapping
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BIG. Hot to Cold. An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation
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Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architechture
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Tadao Ando: Conversations with Students
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Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives
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Designing for the Homeless: Architecture That Works
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Who's Next: Homelessness, Architecture and Cities
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In Praise of Shadows
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The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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Thinking Architecture
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The Poetics of Space
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Architecture: Form, Space, & Order
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