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  • A House and Its Atmosphere by Jacks, Ben
    Mikesch Muecke

    A House and Its Atmosphere

    A House and its Atmosphere is a meditative essay about the experience of designing and building a house of one's own. Told in seventy black and white photographs and a series of narrative excursions, architect Ben Jacks reflects on a lifetime of influences as...
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  • Biennials/Triennials: Conversations on the Geography of Itinerant Display by Szacka, Léa-Catherine
    L饌-Catherine Szacka

    Biennials/Triennials: Conversations on the Geography of Itinerant Display

    In the forty years since the first iteration of Venice Architecture Biennale, the field of architecture has seen a remarkable change in the role played by exhibition-making. While architecture and display have long been intertwined practices, a rapid proliferation of large-scale perennial exhibitions--particularly in...
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  • Architecture Is All Over by Choi, Esther
    Esther Choi

    Architecture Is All Over

    Architecture Is All Over investigates architecture's simultaneous diminishment and ubiquity in the early twenty-first century. As a diagnostic and tactical guide, this collection features original texts and design proposals from emerging and established scholars and practitioners in the fields of architecture, art, the history...
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  • Mastercrit by Benyamin, Jasmine
    Jasmine Benyamin

    Mastercrit

    MASTERcrit was inaugurated in 2015 as a hybrid series of events that encompassed lectures, critiques and a charrette. Modeled on the traditional notion of a "Master Class" the workshop enlisted the best graduating students from the school as nominated by the faculty to work...
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  • Seeking Savannah by Smith, Peter Cookson
    Peter Cookson Smith

    Seeking Savannah

    A disparate but exuberant group of scholars are brought together in Savannah by an eminent professor to explore and debate the history and characteristics of the city and its implications for a twenty-first century urbanism. This narrative represents a forceful and humorous interplay between...
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  • Form and Pedagogy: The Design of the University City in Latin America by Alfaro, Carlos Garciavelez
    Carlos Garciavelez Alfaro

    Form and Pedagogy: The Design of the University City in Latin America

    Of the twentieth-century large-scale design interventions inscribed into the Latin American city, the university campus is the most salient symbol of progress. The academy became an epicenter of twentieth-century architectural and urban experimentation and a unique urban development within major Latin American cities. The...
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  • Gsd Platform 8: An Index of Design & Research by Hong, Zaneta
    Zaneta Hong

    Gsd Platform 8: An Index of Design & Research

    Platform 8 catalogs a curated selection
 of work generated in the past year at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Alongside final products of design education, Platform 8 places particular emphasis on collecting and documenting the people and artifacts that shape research-driven design...
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  • Gsd Platform 7 by Asensio Villoria, Leire
    Leire Asensio Villoria

    Gsd Platform 7

    This volume documents a selection of activities and events at the Harvard Graduate School of Design during the past academic year, bringing together the production of a multitude of designers, authors, and makers. Many of the featured projects reflect the School's desire to have...
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  • Beyond Environment by Piccardo, Emanuele
    Emanuele Piccardo

    Beyond Environment

    Beyond Environment presents the potent interchange between architecture, Land Art, and Performance Art that emerged through Italian architect Gianni Pettena's idealized collaboration with American artists Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson in the 1970s. Captivated by a journey to the USA in 1971, Pettena would...
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  • Robert Venturi's Rome by Fisher, Frederick
    Frederick Fisher

    Robert Venturi's Rome

    Robert Venturi's Rome is a guidebook to the city of Rome seen through the eyes of Robert Venturi, re- interpreted by two subsequent Rome Prize fellows and architects, Frederick Fisher and Stephen Harby. Published in 1966, Venturi looks at architecture, landscape and art as...
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  • Evolo Skyscrapers 2: 150 New Projects Redefine Building High by Aiello, Carlo
    Carlo Aiello

    Evolo Skyscrapers 2: 150 New Projects Redefine Building High

    This publication is the follow-up to the highly acclaimed book eVolo Skyscrapers. 150 new skyscrapers submitted to the eVolo Skyscraper Competition are categorized and examined. These super-tall structures take into consideration the advances in technology, the exploration of sustainable systems, and the establishment of...
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  • Locations: An Anthology of Architecture and Urbanism 01 by Ashraf, Kazi K.
    Kazi K. Ashraf

    Locations: An Anthology of Architecture and Urbanism 01

    Considering architecture in an expanded field, LOCATIONS goes far and near, big-time and smallscale, to assemble a unique set of projects, features, and reports. Each volume contains mini monographs on an ensemble of architects carrying out deeply moving work in various locations of the...
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  • Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architecture of Counterinsurgency by Scott, Felicity D.
    Felicity D. Scott

    Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architecture of Counterinsurgency

    Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency traces the relations of architecture and urbanism to forms of human unsettlement and territorial insecurity during the 1960s and '70s. Investigating a set of responses to the growing urban unrest in the developed and developing worlds, Outlaw...
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  • The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space by Hatherley, Owen
    Owen Hatherley

    The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space

    Nearly thirty years after the fall of the USSR, the word "Soviet" should be as meaningless by now as "Hapsburg" or "Hohenzollern". Strangely, though, it endures, as places both inside and outside the former Soviet Union define themselves for or against what happened when...
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  • Lake County Schoolhouses by Pierucci, Antone R. E.
    Antone R. E. Pierucci

    Lake County Schoolhouses

    The quaint, one-room schoolhouse of the untamed frontier looms large in the collective image of the American West. The stories that surround these schoolhouses have become embedded in the nation s cultural memory: the hardships of having to walk miles to and from school,...
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  • ReZoning Chicago's Modernisms: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Remment Koolhaas, the IIT Campus and its Bronzeville Prehistory (1914-2003) by Tierney, Sherry
    Sherry Tierney

    ReZoning Chicago's Modernisms: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Remment Koolhaas, the IIT Campus and its Bronzeville Prehistory (1914-2003)

    This book critically analyzes Mies van der Rohe and Remment Koolhaas' architectural projects at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), which is located in the predominently Black neighborhood of Bronzeville on the south side of the city of Chicago. It examines the role of...
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  • Georgian Bath by Dargan, Pat
    Pat Dargan

    Georgian Bath

    During the eighteenth century the city of Bath experienced a period of dramatic expansion, when an extensive range of elegant uniform streets, landscaped spaces, tall stone-built Georgian houses, and public buildings made their appearance. There was no master plan for the development of Bath....
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  • Millennials in Architecture: Generations, Disruption, and the Legacy of a Profession by Sollohub, Darius
    Darius Sollohub

    Millennials in Architecture: Generations, Disruption, and the Legacy of a Profession

    Much has been written about Millennials, but until now their growing presence in the field of architecture has not been examined in depth. In an era of significant challenges stemming from explosive population growth, climate change, and the density of cities, Millennials in Architecture...
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  • Deleuze and the City by Frichot, Hélène
    H駘鈩e Frichot

    Deleuze and the City

    Defining the lives of a majority of the world's population, the question of 'the city' has risen to the fore as one the most urgent issues of our time - uniting concerns across the terrain of climate policies, global financing, localised struggles and multi-disciplinary...
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  • Materials and Meaning in Architecture: Essays on the Bodily Experience of Buildings by Coleman, Nathaniel
    Nathaniel Coleman

    Materials and Meaning in Architecture: Essays on the Bodily Experience of Buildings

    Interweaving architecture, philosophy and cultural history, Materials and Meaning in Architecture develops a rich and multi-dimensional exploration of materials and materiality, in an age when architectural practice seems otherwise preoccupied with image and visual representation. Arguing that architecture is primarily experienced by the whole...
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  • Performing Architectures: Projects, Practices, Pedagogies by Filmer, Andrew
    Andrew Filmer

    Performing Architectures Projects, Practices, Pedagogies

    Performing Architectures offers a coherent introduction to the fields of performance and contemporary architecture, exploring the significance of architecture for performance theory and theatre and performance practice. It maps the diverse relations that exist between these disciplines and demonstrates how their aims, concerns and...
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  • Archi.Pop: Mediating Architecture in Popular Culture by Lasansky, D. Medina
    D. Medina Lasansky

    Archi.Pop

    How have architecture and design been represented in popular culture? How do these fictional reflections feed back into and influence 'the real world'? Archi.Pop: Architecture and Design in Popular Culture offers the first contemporary critical overview of this diverse and intriguing relationship in cultural...
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  • The Architecture of David Lynch by Martin, Richard
    Richard Martin

    The Architecture of David Lynch

    From the Red Room in Twin Peaks to Club Silencio in Mulholland Drive, the work of David Lynch contains some of the most remarkable spaces in contemporary culture. Richard Martin's compelling study is the first sustained critical assessment of the role architecture and design...
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  • Architecture, Design and Craft in Toronto 1900-1940: Creating Modern Living by Myzelev, Alla
    Alla Myzelev

    Architecture, Design and Craft in Toronto 1900-1940: Creating Modern Living

    Toronto - the largest and one of the most multicultural cities in Canada - boasts an equally interesting and diverse architectural heritage. Architecture, Design and Craft in Toronto 1900-1940 tells a story of the significant changes in domestic life in the first 40 years...
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  • The Manhattan Project: A Theory of a City by Kishik, David
    David Kishik

    The Manhattan Project: A Theory of a City

    This sharp, witty study of a book never written, a sequel to Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, is dedicated to New York City, capital of the twentieth century. A sui generis work of experimental scholarship or fictional philosophy, it analyzes an imaginary manuscript composed by...
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  • Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy by Sabatino, Michelangelo
    Michelangelo Sabatino

    Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy

    Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry....
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  • Quid Novi: Architectural Education Dilemmas in the 21st Century by Lara, Fernando Luiz
    Fernando Luiz Lara

    Quid Novi: Architectural Education Dilemmas in the 21st Century

    What is the real purpoise of this huge apparatus of higher education in architecture? This book proposes to discuss exactly this question. Departing from our assumption that architectural education has not changed much in the last 50 years, how do we define the relationship...
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  • Italy/Australia: Postmodern Architecture in Translation by Micheli, Silvia
    Silvia Micheli

    Italy/Australia: Postmodern Architecture in Translation

    Relationships with Italy were crucial in contributing to the making of postmodern architecture in Australia. In this collection of essays and conversations, the authors reflect upon the reception of Italian postmodern architecture in Australia, revealing a richness of original interpretations.Dedicated to the memory of...
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  • Architecture Competitions and the Production of Culture, Quality and Knowledge: An International Inquiry by Chupin, Jean-Pierre
    Jean-Pierre Chupin

    Architecture Competitions and the Production of Culture, Quality and Knowledge: An International Inquiry

    This book comprises a series of 22 case studies by renowned experts and new scholars in the field of architecture competition research. In 2015, it constitutes the most comprehensive survey of the dynamics behind the definition, organization, judging, archiving and publishing of architectural, landscape...
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  • Fantastic Architecture by Vostell, Wolf
    Wolf Vostell

    Fantastic Architecture

    Compiled by Fluxus artists Wolf Vostell and Dick Higgins, and first published by Higgins' legendary Something Else Press in 1970, Fantastic Architecture anticipated the critiques launched by a new generation of visionary architects in the 1970s. In his introduction, Higgins argued that "architects ......
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  • The Cornell Journal of Architecture 8: RE by O'Donnell, Caroline
    Caroline O'Donnell

    The Cornell Journal of Architecture 8: RE

    This issue of the Cornell Journal of Architecture is about the now, the new, and the next in architecture, while simultaneously acknowledging that every possible future is intrinsically linked to the existent, to the present and its attendant past. At the heart of issue...
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  • Design Primer for Hot Climates by Konya, Allan
    Allan Konya

    Design Primer for Hot Climates

    This highly practical book has been written to encourage design solutions that are in harmony with local climates & conditions: a matter of economic as well as aesthetic importance. The initial chapters explain the fundamentals of climate & comfort. Subsequent sections set out environmental...
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright's Living Space by Satler, Gail
    Gail Satler

    Frank Lloyd Wright's Living Space

    This sociological analysis of Wright's architecture examines the interaction between people and the spaces they create. Satler shows how Wright explored a new architectural dimension, the space in which we live. Focusing on the Larkin Building (1904) and Unity Temple (1907), works that Wright...
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  • The Universitas Project: Solutions for a Post-Technological Society by Riley, Terence
    Terence Riley

    The Universitas Project: Solutions for a Post-Technological Society

    In January of 1972, The Museum of Modern Art hosted "The Universitas Project," a two-day conference sponsored by the Museum's International Council and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. The distinguished participants, from a wide range of scholarly and artistic disciplines, including Jean...
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  • Santa Fe's Historic McKenzie Neighborhood by Rogers, Victoria
    Victoria Rogers

    Santa Fe's Historic McKenzie Neighborhood

    This book speaks to lovers of art, Santa Fe, historic architecture, guidebooks, and books as art. The imaginative images are combined with historical documentation, illuminating the diverse period-architecture found in a simple crisscross of seven streets. The historic McKenzie Neighborhood is just a five-minute...
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  • Architects of Buddhist Leisure: Socially Disengaged Buddhism in Asia's Museums, Monuments, and Amusement Parks by McDaniel, Justin Thomas
    Justin Thomas McDaniel

    Architects of Buddhist Leisure: Socially Disengaged Buddhism in Asia's Museums, Monuments, and Amusement Parks

    Buddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. Creative religious improvisations designed by Buddhists have been produced both within and outside of monasteries across the region--in Nepal,...
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  • Wittgenstein's House: Language, Space, and Architecture by Last, Nana
    Nana Last

    Wittgenstein's House: Language, Space, and Architecture

    Wittgenstein's House reads Wittgenstein's his two main philosophical texts, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations, in relation to an experience that intervened between them: his design and construction of the Stonborough-Wittgenstein house in Vienna. Arguing that the practice of architecture occupies not just a historical...
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  • Spectacular Modernity: Dictatorship, Space, and Visuality in Venezuela, 1948-1958 by Blackmore, Lisa
    Lisa Blackmore

    Spectacular Modernity: Dictatorship, Space, and Visuality in Venezuela, 1948-1958

    Winner, 2018 LASA Venezuela Section Fernando Coronil Award In cultural history, the 1950s in Venezuela are commonly celebrated as a golden age of modernity, realized by a booming oil economy, dazzling modernist architecture, and nationwide modernization projects. But this is only half the story....
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  • Lost Russia: Photographing the Ruins of Russian Architecture by Brumfield, William Craft
    William Craft Brumfield

    Lost Russia: Photographing the Ruins of Russian Architecture

    Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a new preface by the author, available in June 2015 The twentieth century in Russia has been a cataclysm of rare proportions, as war, revolution, famine, and massive political terror tested the limits of human endurance. The results of this...
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  • Log Construction: In The Ohio Country, 1750-1850 by Hutslar, Donald A.
    Donald A. Hutslar

    Log Construction: In The Ohio Country, 1750-1850

    Log construction entered the Ohio territory with the seventeenth-century fur traders and mid-eighteenth-century squatters and then spread throughout most of the area after the opening of the territory in the 1780s. Scottish-Irish and German settlers, using techniques from the eastern states and European homelands,...
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  • Nantucket Doorways by Stackpole, Edward A.
    Edward A. Stackpole

    Nantucket Doorways

    Once a major whaling center, Nantucket today draws thousands to its New England shores as one of America's leading summer resorts. The author gives guided tour of the homes of such noted families as the Macys, the Folgers and the Starbucks.Author: Edward A. Stackpole,...
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  • Urban Design by Krieger, Alex
    Alex Krieger

    Urban Design

    Author: Alex KriegerISBN-10: 0816656398ISBN-13: 9780816656394Publisher: University of Minnesota PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2009Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.78dReview Citation(s): Choice 09/01/2009Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2009 pg. 232
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  • The Singular Objects of Architecture by Baudrillard, Jean
    Jean Baudrillard

    The Singular Objects of Architecture

    What is a singular object? An idea, a building, a color, a sentiment, a human being. Each in turn comes under scrutiny in this exhilarating dialogue between two of the most interesting thinkers working in philosophy and architecture today. From such singular objects, Jean...
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  • Architecture in New York: A Photographic History by Andrews, Wayne
    Wayne Andrews

    Architecture in New York: A Photographic History

    In the many photographs magnificently reproduced in this collection, Andrews has captured the incredible range of the architecture of New York State, from Manhattan Island to Chautauqua County. Something of the scope of this work is indicated by the fact that A. J. Davis,...
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  • Designing Social Equality: Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Perception of Democracy by Gage, Mark Foster
    Mark Foster Gage

    Designing Social Equality: Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Perception of Democracy

    In Designing Social Equality, Mark Foster Gage proposes a dramatic realignment between aesthetic thought, politics, social equality, and the design of our physical world. By reconsidering historic concepts from aesthetic philosophy and weaving them with emerging intellectual positions from a variety of disciplines, he...
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  • Indoor America: The Interior Landscape of Postwar Suburbia by Vesentini, Andrea
    Andrea Vesentini

    Indoor America: The Interior Landscape of Postwar Suburbia

    Cars, single-family houses, fallout shelters, air-conditioned malls--these are only some of the many interiors making up the landscape of American suburbia. Indoor America explores the history of suburbanization through the emergence of such spaces in the postwar years, examining their design, use, and representation....
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  • Material Witnesses: Domestic Architecture and Plantation Landscapes in Early Virginia by Wells, Camille
    Camille Wells

    Material Witnesses: Domestic Architecture and Plantation Landscapes in Early Virginia

    The Chesapeake region of eastern Virginia and Maryland offers a wealth of evidence for readers and researchers who want to discover what life was like in early America. In this eagerly anticipated volume, Camille Wells, one of the foremost experts on eighteenth-century Virginia architecture,...
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  • Buildings of Wisconsin by Weisiger, Marsha
    Marsha Weisiger

    Buildings of Wisconsin

    From Milwaukee to Madison, Racine to Eau Claire, La Crosse to Sheboygan, and scores of places in between, tradition and progressivism have shaped Wisconsin's architectural landscape. This latest volume in the Society of Architectural Historians' Buildings of the United States series showcases noteworthy and...
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  • Visuality for Architects: Architectural Creativity and Modern Theories of Perception and Imagination by Mitrovic, Branko
    Branko Mitrovic

    Visuality for Architects: Architectural Creativity and Modern Theories of Perception and Imagination

    What is more important in architectural works--their form, shape, and color, or the meanings and symbolism that can be associated with them? Can aesthetic judgments of architecture be independent of the stories one can tell about buildings? Do non-architects perceive buildings in the same...
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  • Buildings of Michigan by Eckert, Kathryn Bishop
    Kathryn Bishop Eckert

    Buildings of Michigan

    This revised edition of Buildings of Michigan (first published in 1993) presents the architecture of the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan, which are surrounded by four of the Great Lakes. From the Greek, Gothic, Italianate, Queen Anne, and Richardsonian Romanesque structures of the...
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