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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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  • Nights of the Dispossessed: Riots Unbound by Ginwala, Natasha
    Natasha Ginwala

    Nights of the Dispossessed: Riots Unbound

    Riots are extraordinary events that have been recurring with increasing frequency and occupy a highly controversial space in the political imagination. Despite their often negative portrayals, it is undeniable that riots have played a pivotal role in the confrontation between authority and dissent. Recently,...
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  • Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary by Rael, Ronald
    Ronald Rael

    Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary

    "A protest against the wall and a forecast about its future."--Allison Arieff, The New York Times "Rael's courageous mixture of subversion and compromise is not going to hide the affront that the border represents to those who live south of it."--London Review of Books...
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  • La+ Creature by Hands, Tatum
    Tatum Hands

    LA+ Creature

    Issue 14 of LA+ Journal brings you the results of the LA+ CREATURE international design ideas competition, which explored how we can use design to achieve a more symbiotic existence with other creatures. The competition brief asked entrants to choose a nonhuman client and...
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  • Architecture's New Strangeness: A 21st Century Cult of Peculiarity by Moffett, Kenneth
    Kenneth Moffett

    Architecture's New Strangeness: A 21st Century Cult of Peculiarity

    This book arose from two observations: that building design in these first decades of the 21st century has come to accept and pursue some increasingly odd and disturbing trends; and that there seems to be insufficient architectural criticism that calls these trends to account....
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  • Balkrishna Doshi: Writings on Architecture & Identity by Bader, Simone Vera
    Simone Vera Bader

    Balkrishna Doshi: Writings on Architecture & Identity

    Royal Gold Medal 2022 recipient: Balkrishna Doshi This book presents a curated selection of Balkrishna Doshi's exceptional writings since the 1950s, with some published here for the first time. The collection of 15 lectures, articles and essays is richly illustrated with more than 50...
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  • The Philosophy of Dumbness by Choma, Joseph
    Joseph Choma

    The Philosophy of Dumbness

    This is the dumbest smart book on contemporary architecture. What really is this "technology" that we speak of? How do we define "intelligence"? These are just two of the questions that this book attempts to answer through the unconventional (and seemingly ironic) lens of...
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  • Responsive Environments: Defining Our Technologically-Mediated Relationship with Space by Sayegh, Allen
    Allen Sayegh

    Responsive Environments: Defining Our Technologically-Mediated Relationship with Space

    The entanglement of physical contexts with digital environments is constantly changing our relationship with the surrounding space and creating new hybrid experiences. These transformations pose complex design challenges and yet offer novel opportunities for the understanding and development of human-centered built environments. Drawing from...
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  • The Adirondack Architecture Guide, Southern-Central Region by Null, Janet A.
    Janet A. Null

    The Adirondack Architecture Guide, Southern-Central Region

    Janet A. Null is an award-winning architect and President of Argus Architecture & Preservation, P.C. She lives in upstate New York and has practiced throughout the Adirondack region for more than twenty-five years.Author: Janet A. NullISBN-10: 1438466668ISBN-13: 9781438466668Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New YoLanguage:...
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  • 25 Concepts in Modern Architecture: A Guide for Visual Thinkers by Travis, Stephanie
    Stephanie Travis

    25 Concepts in Modern Architecture: A Guide for Visual Thinkers

    Designed to appeal to visual thinkers, 25 Concepts in Modern Architecture explores the fundamental ideas behind architectural design, through easy-to-follow sketches, drawings and succinct explanations. Twenty-five concepts - each of which are key to architectural design thinking - are accessibly explained by examining twenty-five...
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  • The Fourth Dimension in Architecture: The Impact of Building on Behavior by Hall, Edward T.
    Edward T. Hall

    The Fourth Dimension in Architecture: The Impact of Building on Behavior

    This study of how the architecture of a building influences the people who work in it is of interest to architects, behavioralists, and management personnel as well as fans of architecture in general. Mildred Reed Hall and Edward T. Hall founded Edward T. Hall...
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  • Toward an Architecture by Le Corbusier
    Le Corbusier

    Toward an Architecture

    Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to...
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  • Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience by Karmon, David
    David Karmon

    Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience

    This is the first study of Renaissance architecture as an immersive, multisensory experience that combines historical analysis with the evidence of first-hand accounts. Questioning the universalizing claims of contemporary architectural phenomenologists, David Karmon emphasizes the infinite variety of meanings produced through human interactions with...
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  • Best Practices: A Companion to Architecture and Its Messy Relationship with Building Materials, Signage Systems, Communication Equipme by Besler, Erin
    Erin Besler

    Best Practices: A Companion to Architecture and Its Messy Relationship with Building Materials, Signage Systems, Communication Equipme

    A thought-provoking guide to the endearing and enigmatic ways in which the built environment takes shape, Best Practices proposes a new way of thinking about neighborhoods, housing developments, streetscapes, and storefronts, not so much as places defined by building codes, dimensions, or geographic features,...
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  • Architecture Depends by Till, Jeremy
    Jeremy Till

    Architecture Depends

    Polemics and reflections on how to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be.Architecture depends--on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book,...
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  • Philadelphia Builds: Essays on Architecture by Lewis, Michael J.
    Michael J. Lewis

    Philadelphia Builds: Essays on Architecture

    "Michael Lewis deploys his gifts as a storyteller to convey the ideas, aspirations, vanities and struggles that gave form to Philadelphia's most important buildings. Written with ferocious passion and deep scholarship, these architectural histories frequently charmed me, occasionally provoked me, and ultimately left me...
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  • Art After Liberalism by Gamso, Nicholas
    Nicholas Gamso

    Art After Liberalism

    Art after Liberalism is an account of creative practice at a moment of converging social crises. It is also an inquiry into emergent ways of living, acting, and making art in the company of others. The apparent failures of liberal thinking mark its starting...
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  • Poetic Significance: Sài Gòn Mid-Century Modernist Architecture by Pham Phu Vinh
    Pham Phu Vinh

    Poetic Significance: S瀛 G Mid-Century Modernist Architecture

    "Poetic Significance" presents beautiful architectural photography, diagrams, and the history of the very rich and complex Vietnamese modernist architecture from the mid-century in Saigon, Vietnam. Vietnamese mid-twentieth-century modernist architecture made its way into the Vietnamese vernacular culture to be recreated and transformed by the...
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  • Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design by Colomina, Beatriz
    Beatriz Colomina

    Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design

    Rethinking the intimate relationship between humans and design, from primitive tools and ornamentation to the constant buzz of modern social mediaThe question "are we human?" is both urgent and ancient. Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley offer a multilayered exploration of the intimate relationship between...
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  • Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture by Rudofsky, Bernard
    Bernard Rudofsky

    Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture

    In this book, Bernard Rudofsky steps outside the narrowly defined discipline that has governed our sense of architectural history and discusses the art of building as a universal phenomenon. He introduces the reader to communal architecture--architecture produced not by specialists but by the spontaneous...
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  • The Mosaics of Alexandria: Pavements of Greek and Roman Egypt by Guimier-Sorbets, Anne-Marie
    Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets

    The Mosaics of Alexandria: Pavements of Greek and Roman Egypt

    A beautifully illustrated study of mosaic art in Greco-Roman Egypt The art of the mosaic was developed by the Greeks, notably within the royal court of Macedonia, and was initially unknown to the Egyptians. Macedonian mosaicists then established busy workshops in the capital, Alexandria,...
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  • Ant Farm: Living Archive 7 by Scott, Felicity
    Felicity Scott

    Ant Farm: Living Archive 7

    Felicity D. Scott revisits the architectural, art, video, and intermedia practices of the experimental collective Ant Farm, self-described ]super-radical activist environmentalists.] Drawing together archival material on their extended fields of practice, Ant Farm features the first full-color publication of the complete Ant Farm Timeline,...
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