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  • The Phenomenon of Life: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe by Alexander, Christopher
    Christopher Alexander

    The Phenomenon of Life: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe

    Christopher Alexander's series of ground-breaking books including A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building have pointed to fundamental truths of the way we build, revealing what gives life and beauty and true functionality to our buildings and towns. Now, in The Nature...
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  • Forms of Non-Belonging by Tan, Pelin
    Pelin Tan

    Forms of Non-Belonging

    Reflections on the conditions of contemporary exile, refugeehood, migration, and community building at the margins of society. According to Pelin Tan, there are forms of belonging that do not quite belong. In this collection of essays and conversations with artists and practitioners across twenty...
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  • Exhibition as Interior, Interior as Exhibition: Spaces of Display Within and Beyond the Museum and Gallery by Sparke, Penny
    Penny Sparke

    Exhibition as Interior, Interior as Exhibition: Spaces of Display Within and Beyond the Museum and Gallery

    Exhibition design has long been studied in the fields of art, design and architecture, but the focus has been on the design of the exhibition narrative, rather than the design as interior space. This book breaks new ground, exploring the complex relationships which exist...
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  • Katarina Burin: Contribution and Collaboration: The Work of Petra Andrejova-Molnár and Her Contemporaries by Burin, Katarina
    Katarina Burin

    Katarina Burin: Contribution and Collaboration: The Work of Petra Andrejova-Molnár and Her Contemporaries

    In her first artist's book, Cambridge, MA-based artist Katarina Burin (born 1975) creates a fictitious Czechoslovakian architect named Andrejova-Molnar, described as a pioneering architect of modern postwar Europe, as part of her investigation of architectural history. The book presents a biographical narrative about the...
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  • William Morgan: Evolution of an Architect by Shieldhouse, Richard
    Richard Shieldhouse

    William Morgan: Evolution of an Architect

    William Morgan (1930-2016) was a bold, innovative, and highly imaginative architect known internationally for fusing ancient and modern styles and for his early championing of green design principles. This extensively illustrated book traces Morgan's life story and the development of his singular design vision....
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  • Common Architecture by Kim, Sunwoo
    Sunwoo Kim

    Common Architecture

    What is the common value of architecture? The first description that come to mind is: somethingnormal, ordinary, or rational.These keywords are pointing toward the opposite of newness. A brave jump of logic would make out that architecture does not need to call for newness....
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  • How Does Architecture Distribute the Sensible?: Engaging Jacques Ranci?re by Bedford, Joseph
    Joseph Bedford

    How Does Architecture Distribute the Sensible?: Engaging Jacques Ranci?re

    Jacques Ranci?re is one of the leading thinkers not only of contemporary aesthetic theory but contemporary philosophy in general. After his break from Althusser, Ranci?re developed the radical and axiomatic principal of the absolute equality of intelligences and capacities that defined his entire body...
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  • The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design by Deamer, Peggy
    Peggy Deamer

    The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design

    Directly confronting the nature of contemporary architectural work, this book is the first to address a void at the heart of architectural discourse and thinking. For too long, architects have avoided questioning how the central aspects of architectural "practice" (professionalism, profit, technology, design, craft,...
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  • For the Temporary Accommodation of Settlers: Architecture and Immigrant Reception in Canada, 1870-1930 Volume 33 by Monteyne, David
    David Monteyne

    For the Temporary Accommodation of Settlers: Architecture and Immigrant Reception in Canada, 1870-1930 Volume 33

    For immigrants making the transoceanic journey from Europe or Asia to North America, the experience of a new country began when they disembarked. In Canada the federal government built a network of buildings that provided newcomers with shelter, services, and state support. "Immigration sheds"...
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  • Architecture and the Mimetic Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of How Buildings Make and Break Our Lives by Huskinson, Lucy
    Lucy Huskinson

    Architecture and the Mimetic Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of How Buildings Make and Break Our Lives

    Buildings shape our identity and sense of self in profound ways that are not always evident to architects and town planners, or even to those who think they are intimately familiar with the buildings they inhabit. Architecture and the Mimetic Self provides a useful...
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  • Uninhabitable Architectures by Sbarigia, Chiara
    Chiara Sbarigia

    Uninhabitable Architectures

    Testing the limits of when architecture becomes pure art"Uninhabitable architecture[s]" are projects that do not provide for human presence, and thus function as pure art. Using archival and commissioned photographs, this study of the relationship between living and building includes Gio Ponti's Branca Tower...
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  • Richard Rogers on Modern Architecture by Rogers, Richard
    Richard Rogers

    Richard Rogers on Modern Architecture

    Written during what architect Richard Rogers saw as a moment of crisis in modern architecture, this essay explores how the way we build--and live--could change for the better. Roger argues that poor design, monotony and inhuman scale are not the results of a lack...
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  • Oblique Experiments: Claude Parent's Architectural Installations (1969-1975) by Siddiqui, Igor
    Igor Siddiqui

    Oblique Experiments: Claude Parent's Architectural Installations (1969-1975)

    With the radical proposition of life on inclined planes--a theory known as the oblique function--the French architect Claude Parent sought to free architecture of orthogonal form, renew its social relevance, and inspire people's interest in the built environment. Oblique Experiments: Claude Parent's Architectural Installations...
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  • The Garden Retreat in Asia and Europe: Ways of Dwelling in a Torn World by Zhuang, Yue
    Yue Zhuang

    The Garden Retreat in Asia and Europe: Ways of Dwelling in a Torn World

    The Garden Retreat in Asia and Europe explores the meaning of gardens and designed landscapes as places of retreat and refuge in times of need or emergency. In the current times of war, pandemic, climate change, and global anxiety, the value of the garden...
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  • The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design by Deamer, Peggy
    Peggy Deamer

    The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design

    Directly confronting the nature of contemporary architectural work, this book is the first to address a void at the heart of architectural discourse and thinking. For too long, architects have avoided questioning how the central aspects of architectural "practice" (professionalism, profit, technology, design, craft,...
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  • Architecture and Psychoanalysis: Peter Eisenman and Jacques Lacan by Hendrix, John Shannon
    John Shannon Hendrix

    Architecture and Psychoanalysis: Peter Eisenman and Jacques Lacan

    Architecture and Psychoanalysis is an analysis of the relation between psychoanalytic theory and compositional strategies in architecture. In psychoanalysis it focuses on the writing of Jacques Lacan as well as theories of the structure of the psyche, linguistics, and perception. In architecture it focuses...
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  • The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space by Martin, Reinhold
    Reinhold Martin

    The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space

    A historical and theoretical analysis of corporate architecture in the United States after the Second World War.The Organizational Complex is a historical and theoretical analysis of corporate architecture in the United States after the Second World War. Its title refers to the aesthetic and...
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  • The Architecture of the City by Rossi, Aldo
    Aldo Rossi

    The Architecture of the City

    Aldo Rossi was a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza and one of the most influential theorists of the twentieth century. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest...
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  • Landscape Is...!: Essays on the Meaning of Landscape by Doherty, Gareth
    Gareth Doherty

    Landscape Is...!: Essays on the Meaning of Landscape

    Landscape Is...! examines the implicit biases and received meanings of landscape. Following on from the previous publication Is Landscape...? which examined the plural and promiscuous identities of the landscape idea, this companion volume reflects upon the diverse and multiple meanings of landscape as a...
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  • Architecture After Deleuze and Guattari by Smith, Chris L.
    Chris L. Smith

    Architecture After Deleuze and Guattari

    This study illuminates the complex interplay between Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy and architecture. Presenting their wide-ranging impact on late 20th- and 21st-century architecture, each chapter focuses on a core Deleuzian/Guattarian philosophical concept and one key work of architecture which evokes, contorts, or extends it....
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  • Representing the Landscape Project: The Creative Process and Design Education by Stef?no, Daniele
    Daniele Stef?no

    Representing the Landscape Project: The Creative Process and Design Education

    Representation is an indispensable creative process, able to develop our thinking, making us more aware and weaving a new connection with the landscapes surrounding us. For the landscape architect, representation is fundamental to unravelling all those values that underlie reality. It also allows the...
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  • The Feeling of Space by Bardt, Christopher
    Christopher Bardt

    The Feeling of Space

    A richly illustrated exploration of humanity's drive to shape life as a spatial project, from Plato's time to the digital era. Place is something real, but space is generally conceived as abstract and immaterial. In The Feeling of Space, Christopher Bardt explores this damaging...
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  • Architecture and Cultural Continuity: The Making of Festival, Experience and Historicity by Frost, Christian
    Christian Frost

    Architecture and Cultural Continuity: The Making of Festival, Experience and Historicity

    Architecture and Cultural Continuity explores a dynamic way of viewing architecture - arguing that all architecture is best evaluated through active experiences in relation to cultural traditions of community and belonging, space, ritual, and setting. A work in three parts, the book first analyses...
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  • Architecture, Empire, and Trade: The United Africa Company by Jackson, Iain
    Iain Jackson

    Architecture, Empire, and Trade: The United Africa Company

    This open access book tells a new and untold history of the architecture of West Africa in the colonial era, as revealed for the first time through the archives of the United Africa Company (UAC). From the imperial Royal Niger Company's charter in the...
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  • Why Architecture Matters: Lessons from Chicago by Kamin, Blair
    Blair Kamin

    Why Architecture Matters: Lessons from Chicago

    For more than a decade, Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin has been writing fiery, intelligent essays on the state of contemporary architecture. His subjects range from high-rises to highways, parks to public housing, Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry. Why Architecture...
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  • Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to AI for Architects by Leach, Neil
    Neil Leach

    Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to AI for Architects

    Updated to cover the latest cutting-edge developments in the field and now in full color, Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence introduces AI for designers and explores its seismic impact on the future of architecture and design. From smart assistants and ChatGPT to...
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  • Intar Interventions and Adaptive Reuse Intervention as ACT by Rhode Island School of Design
    Rhode Island School of Design

    Intar Interventions and Adaptive Reuse Intervention as ACT

    Author: Rhode Island School of DesignISBN-10: 3035616086ISBN-13: 9783035616088Publisher: BirkhauserLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2018Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.40d
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  • Everyday Architecture: A Vast Wasteland by Moffett, Kenneth M.
    Kenneth M. Moffett

    Everyday Architecture: A Vast Wasteland

    A long-deserved survey, of the everyday building types that line our suburban roads and parking lots, affords an informative and diverting critique of their architectural and sociocultural foibles. This project began with an essay on the "McMansion" phenomenon, and it grew to become a...
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  • From Light to Dark: Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom by Edensor, Tim
    Tim Edensor

    From Light to Dark: Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom

    Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human experience in which spaces appear radically different depending on time, season, and weather, social science investigation on the subject is meager....
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  • Modernism's Magic Hat: Architecture and the Illusion of Development Without Capital by Muzaffar, Ijlal
    Ijlal Muzaffar

    Modernism's Magic Hat: Architecture and the Illusion of Development Without Capital

    Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization. In Modernism's Magic Hat, Ijlal Muzaffar examines how modern architects and planners help resolve one of the central dilemmas of the mid-twentieth-century world order: how to make decolonization plausible without accounting...
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  • Cities Interrupted: Visual Culture and Urban Space by Jordan, Shirley
    Shirley Jordan

    Cities Interrupted: Visual Culture and Urban Space

    Cities Interrupted explores the potential of visual culture - in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urban design, and mixed media - to strategically interrupt processes of globalization in contemporary urban spaces. Looking at cities such as Amsterdam, Beijing, Doha, London, New York,...
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  • Design and Disability: 10 Tales of Accessible Design by Kane, Natalie
    Natalie Kane

    Design and Disability: 10 Tales of Accessible Design

    This visually rich book celebrates design ingenuity, making the point that inclusive design is better for all This visually rich book celebrates design ingenuity, acknowledging the significant contributions of disabled individuals and communities to design and making the point that, simply put, inclusive design...
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  • Rewriting Alberti by Eisenman, Peter
    Peter Eisenman

    Rewriting Alberti

    Author: Peter EisenmanISBN-10: 0262553716ISBN-13: 9780262553711Publisher: MIT PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/09/2025Pages: 248Format: Paperback
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  • Cz2: Roadmap to the Mosaic Society by Maas, Winy
    Winy Maas

    Cz2: Roadmap to the Mosaic Society

    Concrete research, data visualization and blueprints for transforming Czechia into a beacon of sustainable innovationContaining interviews with local experts and research by 150 local and international students, this richly illustrated "data novel" offers a methodological framework for investigating the social, built, ecological, governance, cultural...
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  • What's Next for Mom and Dad's House?: Essays on the Single-Family Housing Type and Its Future, Vol. 1 by Tattara, Martino
    Martino Tattara

    What's Next for Mom and Dad's House?: Essays on the Single-Family Housing Type and Its Future, Vol. 1

    Proposing solutions for how the traditional suburban single-family house can be reinvented for the contemporary market and climateDespite the increasing interest in reuse and circularity, little attention has been paid to the task of transforming the extensive residential sprawls of single-family houses built across...
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  • Fortress Power: Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control by Denman, Derek S.
    Derek S. Denman

    Fortress Power: Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control

    A compelling treatise on the relationship between power and enclosureFortress Power presents a genealogy of fortification as a material and political technology intent on obstruction, tracing its implementation across battlefields, borders, and urban environments. Drawing on the influential work of philosophers Michel Foucault and...
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  • Architectures of Existence: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics by Youn?s, Chris
    Chris Youn?s

    Architectures of Existence: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics

    Architectures of Existence proposes that philosophical thinking (ecosophical thinking) can inform the way we engage with our world and its inhabitants, as architects, designers and planners, but also as individuals, as people, and as a society.In Art et existence, Maldiney states: "For us, to...
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  • Building Bad: How Architectural Utility is Constrained by Politics and Damaged by Expression by Ochshorn, Jonathan
    Jonathan Ochshorn

    Building Bad: How Architectural Utility is Constrained by Politics and Damaged by Expression

    In this book, the author argues that architectural functionality is often constrained by political and economic forces, while it is also effectively undermined by modes of expression. Utilitarian building elements-for example, windows or skylights intended to bring daylight into offices or factories-may be subject...
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  • Biopolitical Garden: Space, Lives, Transition by Vigan?, Paola
    Paola Vigan?

    Biopolitical Garden: Space, Lives, Transition

    The book discusses the ways in which the project can critically contribute to an affirmative biopolitical action of substantial emancipation; it considers space an essential agent, and not only a collective capital, or a support, for adapting our lives to the recent profoundly changed...
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  • 1960s University Buildings: The Golden Age of British Modern Architecture by Barr, John
    John Barr

    1960s University Buildings: The Golden Age of British Modern Architecture

    The 1960s continue to hold an almost mythical place in Western culture, particularly in Britain, where change was widespread and infiltrated many aspects of life. This included architecture, whose role in a modern democracy and the form it should take were hotly debated. This...
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  • Mark Foster Gage

    On the Appearance of the World: A Future for Aesthetics in Architecture

    How can architecture develop better aesthetic directions for the twenty-first-century built environment? Our world, increasingly defined by efficient but unconsidered architecture and cities, seems to be getting uglier. In On the Appearance of the World, Mark Foster Gage asks why. He imagines a future...
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  • Building/Object: Shared and Contested Territories of Design and Architecture by Ashby, Charlotte
    Charlotte Ashby

    Building/Object: Shared and Contested Territories of Design and Architecture

    Building/Object addresses the space in between the conventional objects of design and the conventional objects of architecture, probing and reassessing the differences between the disciplines of design history and architectural history Each of the 13 chapters in this book examine things which are neither...
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  • New Directions and Paradigms for the Study of Greek Architecture: Interdisciplinary Dialogues in the Field by Sapirstein, Philip
    Philip Sapirstein

    New Directions and Paradigms for the Study of Greek Architecture: Interdisciplinary Dialogues in the Field

    New Directions and Paradigms for the Study of Greek Architecture comprises 20 chapters by nearly three dozen scholars who describe recent discoveries, new theoretical frameworks, and applications of cutting-edge techniques in their architectural research. The contributions are united by several broad themes that represent...
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  • Joaquim Nabuco

    The Art of Brazilian Architecture

    Photographer Joaquim Nabuco has found art in the architecture, interiors, and landscapes designed by his fellow Brazilians. Through more than 160 large, lively images, Nabuco welcomes you on a journey to see more than 15 properties, including log homes in the mountains of Rio...
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  • OASE 118: Book Reviews: From Words to Buildings by Van Gerrewey, Christophe
    Christophe Van Gerrewey

    OASE 118: Book Reviews: From Words to Buildings

    Author: Christophe Van GerreweyISBN-10: 9462088950ISBN-13: 9789462088955Publisher: Nai010 PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/11/2025Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.29h x 6.54w x 0.63d
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  • Outrage by Nairn, Ian
    Ian Nairn

    Outrage

    Acclaimed architectural critic Ian Nairn's masterpiece, reissued for the first time since 1955. In June of 1955, The Architectural Review (Britain's most acclaimed and well-read magazine of architectural criticism) published a special issue featuring one essay called Outrage by Ian Nairn. As one of...
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  • Association/12 by Bernier, Garnet
    Garnet Bernier

    Association/12

    ASSOCIATION is a student designed and edited publication that gathers work from students, faculty, staff, and alumni across Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning in a single semi-annual volume. An anthology of projects from artists, architects, and planners, ASSOCIATION strives to highlight...
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  • Exhibition Halls by Kusch, Clemens F.
    Clemens F. Kusch

    Exhibition Halls

    An exhibition centre is a central focus of a city's economic life, and in many cases a unique expression of its image. For this reason, as well as offering adequate space and infrastructure, it must make a strong, clearly recognizable architectural statement. Over the...
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  • Transcalar Prospects in Climate Crisis: Architectural Research in Re/Action by Huang, Jeffrey
    Jeffrey Huang

    Transcalar Prospects in Climate Crisis: Architectural Research in Re/Action

    Author: Jeffrey HuangISBN-10: 3037787651ISBN-13: 9783037787656Publisher: Lars Muller PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/04/2025Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.61w x 1.26d
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  • Not a Woman Architect: The Life and Work of Brigitte Peterhans by Fleener, David L.
    David L. Fleener

    Not a Woman Architect: The Life and Work of Brigitte Peterhans

    This book presents the life story of an extraordinary woman in the world of corporate architecture during the Mad Men era of the 1950s to 1980s. Born in a small village in Germany, Brigitte Peterhans managed to come to America to study with Mies...
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