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  • Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture by Brittain-Catlin, Timothy J.
    Timothy J. Brittain-Catlin

    Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture

    Why some architects fail to realize their ideal buildings, and what architecture critics can learn from novelists.The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But it is also a false narrative in many ways, rarely acknowledging the...
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  • Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture by Goldberger, Paul
    Paul Goldberger

    Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture

    PAUL GOLDBERGERON THE AGE OF ARCHITECTUREThe Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Frank Gehry, the CCTV Headquarters by Rem Koolhaas, the Getty Center by Richard Meier, the Times Building by Renzo Piano: Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Paul Goldberger's tenure at The New Yorker has documented a captivating...
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  • For the love of? by Sofia, Mistress
    Mistress Sofia

    For the love of?

    Author biography: Sherry would be the first to admit she had a wonderfully happy childhood. However, her adult life was not particularly happy. She would say she made bad choices in life. Until the age of sixty. She was left by her husband, penniless...
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  • Carlo Scarpa: The Complete Buildings by Bugatti, Emiliano
    Emiliano Bugatti

    Carlo Scarpa: The Complete Buildings

    Featuring exquisite photographs of every structure the architect designed from scratch or incorporated into a historical building, this elegant volume is as sumptuous and inviting as a Scarpa interior. Although he was not widely known during his lifetime, Carlo Scarpa has in the past-half...
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  • Precision in Architecture: Certainty, Ambiguity and Deviation by McVicar, Mhairi
    Mhairi McVicar

    Precision in Architecture: Certainty, Ambiguity and Deviation

    This book offers a detailed insight into the desire for, and consequences of, precise communications in the daily life of contemporary architectural practice through close readings of constructed architectural details by Sigurd Lewerentz, Caruso St John Architects, Mies van der Rohe and OMA. In...
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  • Architectural Drawing by Edminster, Clothier Franklin
    Clothier Franklin Edminster

    Architectural Drawing

    Learn the art of architectural drawing from one of the most respected educators in the field. Clothier Franklin Edminster provides detailed step-by-step instructions on a variety of drawing techniques, from perspective and shading to rendering and presentation. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced...
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  • La+ Botanics by M'Closkey, Karen
    Karen M'Closkey

    LA+ Botanics

    LA+ BOTANIC explores our evolving relationship with plants with contributions that reflect on the many natures and relations that are being materialized in plant conservation, botanic gardens, and botanic art today. A wide range of topics is covered, including plant conservation efforts and the...
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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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  • The Flexible City: Solutions for a Circular and Climate Adaptive Europe by Bergevoet, Tom
    Tom Bergevoet

    The Flexible City: Solutions for a Circular and Climate Adaptive Europe

    How to turn cities into climate-adaptive environments and create circular production processesAll over Europe, cities struggle with an accumulation of environmental crises, including global warming, the depletion of natural resources and pollution. This book presents a toolbox by which circularity and climate adaptation can...
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  • Greenhouse Stories: A Critical Re-Examination of Transparent Microcosms by Ayers, Natalya
    Natalya Ayers

    Greenhouse Stories: A Critical Re-Examination of Transparent Microcosms

    Reconsidering the harmful consequences of the omnipresent greenhouseShifting away from the celebration of greenhouses, Greenhouse Stories is an invitation to critically look at the buildings as controversial production tools. Reexamining them from a social, historical and environmental perspective, the essays and interviews featured in...
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  • Adolf Loos: Meaning, Context, Reception: Essays by Long, Christopher
    Christopher Long

    Adolf Loos: Meaning, Context, Reception: Essays

    Christopher Long's latest volume of essays on the prestigious 19th-century architect, essayist and progenitor of modernismArchitectural historian and leading voice on Adolf Loos, Christopher Long returns with another commentary on the Austrian pioneer of modern architecture. Adolf Loos (1870-1933), an opponent of ornamentation on...
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  • Stones in Water: Essays on Inheritance in the Built Environment by Kealy, Loughlin
    Loughlin Kealy

    Stones in Water: Essays on Inheritance in the Built Environment

    An exploration of how we value--or undervalue--our inherited built environment as it faces new and old challenges. Stones in Water explores how we understand and value our inherited built environment That inheritance, created over centuries by our forebears, is central to cultural identity. Because...
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  • British Architecture 1760-1914: Volume II: 1830-1914 by Tyack, Geoffrey
    Geoffrey Tyack

    British Architecture 1760-1914: Volume II: 1830-1914

    This volume of primary sources examine British architectural history from 1830-1914. The collection contains a mixture of architectural treatises, biographical material on architects, works on different types of building, and contemporary descriptions of individual buildings. This title will be of great interest to students...
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  • Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present by Deamer, Peggy
    Peggy Deamer

    Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present

    Architecture and Capitalism tells a story of the relationship between the economy and architectural design. Eleven historians each discuss in brand new essays the time period they know best, looking at cultural and economic issues, which in light of current economic crises you will...
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  • Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side by Bey, Lee
    Lee Bey

    Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side

    Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side is the first book devoted to the South Side's rich and unfairly ignored architectural heritage. With lively, insightful text and gallery-quality color photographs by noted Chicago architecture expert Lee Bey, Southern Exposure documents the remarkable...
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  • Architecture Theory: A Reader in Philosophy and Culture by Ballantyne, Andrew
    Andrew Ballantyne

    Architecture Theory: A Reader in Philosophy and Culture

    Architecture Theory is a comprehensive and groundbreaking one volume overview of, and introduction to, contemporary critical discourse in architecture. In bringing critical theory and Continental philosophy to bear upon architecture, it provides a solid framework for a fully up-to-date theory of architecture, one that...
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  • Adaptive Reuse in Latin America: Cultural Identity, Values and Memory by Bernardi, José
    José Bernardi

    Adaptive Reuse in Latin America: Cultural Identity, Values and Memory

    This book explores the theoretical & architectural connections.Author: José BernardiISBN-10: 1032344512ISBN-13: 9781032344515Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/03/2023Pages: 252Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.22lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
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  • Buildings of Pittsburgh by Toker, Franklin
    Franklin Toker

    Buildings of Pittsburgh

    At the forefront of national and international change, Pittsburgh has long been portrayed as a place for innovative architecture. From its origins as a fort built in 1753 at the urging of a twenty-one-year-old George Washington, through its industrial boom, and into contemporary times,...
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  • Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories by Demissie, Fassil
    Fassil Demissie

    Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories

    Colonial architecture and urbanism carved its way through space: ordering and classifying the built environment, while projecting the authority of European powers across Africa in the name of science and progress. The built urban fabric left by colonial powers attests to its lingering impacts...
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  • Where Must Design Go Next? by Fuller, Jarrett
    Jarrett Fuller

    Where Must Design Go Next?

    Over the last 85 years, the Institute of Design's pioneering approach has brought about three distinct design eras--experimentation, systems design, and human-centered design--and each of these eras build on the strengths of previous ones. The history of ID, then, is synonymous with the history...
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  • The Open Timber Roofs of the Middle Ages by Brandon, Raphael
    Raphael Brandon

    The Open Timber Roofs of the Middle Ages

    Originally published in 1849, this is a detailed study of roof structures, including aesthetic details of churches of the Middle Ages in England. The illustrations are highly detailed drawings of open timber roofs, with measurements, enlarged decorative details, etc. of tie-beam, trussed rafter, hammer...
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  • Oscar Peterson - Jazz Piano Solos by Peterson, Oscar
    Oscar Peterson

    Oscar Peterson - Jazz Piano Solos

    (Artist Transcriptions). Includes 8 Peterson classics for jazz piano: The Continental * Gravy Waltz * Hallelujah Time * Hymn to Freedom * Roundalay * Blues for Smedley * The Smudge * The Strut.Author: Oscar PetersonISBN-10: 0634099841ISBN-13: 9780634099847Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2005Pages: 56Format:...
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  • 100 Buildings, 100 Years: Celebrating British Architecture by Dyckhoff, Tom
    Tom Dyckhoff

    100 Buildings, 100 Years: Celebrating British Architecture

    The Twentieth Century Society protects outstanding architecture and design dating from 1914 onwards, so in 2014 it is marking 100 years of buildings under its protection. Originally founded as the Thirties Society in 1979, its first major case was the fabulous Art Deco Firestone...
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  • Time Frames: Conservation Policies for Twentieth-Century Architectural Heritage by Carughi, Ugo
    Ugo Carughi

    Time Frames: Conservation Policies for Twentieth-Century Architectural Heritage

    Time Frames provides a reconnaissance on the conservation rules and current protection policies of more than 100 countries, with particular attention to the emerging nations and twentieth-century architecture. The contributions illustrate the critical issues related to architectural listings, with a brief history of national...
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  • Architecture and Freedom: Searching for Agency in a Changing World by Hopkins, Owen
    Owen Hopkins

    Architecture and Freedom: Searching for Agency in a Changing World

    Architects are facing a crisis of agency. For decades, they have seen their traditional role diminish in scope as more and more of their responsibilities have been taken over by other disciplines within the building construction industry. Once upon a time, we might have...
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  • City Science: Performance Follows Form by Burke, Jeremy
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    Ramon Gras

    City Science: Performance Follows Form

    This book showcases cutting-edge research on city form revealing that urban design features--such as topology, morphology, entropy and scale--have massive implications to the quality of life for a city's residents. The Aretian team, a spin off company from the Harvard Innovation Lab, has developed...
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  • Atrium by Rice, Charles
    Charles Rice

    Atrium

    Author: Charles RiceISBN-10: 0262048337ISBN-13: 9780262048330Publisher: MIT PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/17/2023Pages: 216Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.49lbsSize: 9.10h x 7.20w x 0.90d
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  • Kay Fisker: Works and Ideas in Danish Modern Architecture by Søberg, Martin
    Martin Serg

    Kay Fisker: Works and Ideas in Danish Modern Architecture

    Kay Fisker (1893-1965) is considered one of the most influential Danish architects of the twentieth century, and yet there has existed until now no in-depth English-language study of his works and writing. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which...
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  • Dialectic VIII: Subverting - Unmaking Architecture by Abrahamson, Michael
    Michael Abrahamson

    Dialectic VIII: Subverting - Unmaking Architecture

    The VIII issue of Dialectic asks the reader to imagine possible ways to subvert architecture. Or to employ architecture as means of subversion. In this issue 7 articles from international authors and 2 guiding editorials invite the reader to reflect upon the various ways,...
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  • In Venice with Ruskin by Sdegno, Emma
    Emma Sdegno

    In Venice with Ruskin

    The story of the famous English's critic long and fruitful love affair with the city of VeniceJohn Ruskin visited Venice numerous times over the course of his life, starting in 1835, and after long stays in the city he published his three-volume masterpiece The...
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  • The Monster Leviathan: Anarchitecture by Betsky, Aaron
    Aaron Betsky

    The Monster Leviathan: Anarchitecture

    Visionary proposals for a mythic and strange architecture--or anarchitecture--through which we can imagine other and better worlds. Lurking under the surface of our modern world lies an unseen architecture--or anarchitecture. It is a possible architecture, an analogous architecture, an architecture of anarchy, which haunts...
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  • Doctor Watson Architects Incomplete Works Volume Three by Watson, Victoria
    Victoria Watson

    Doctor Watson Architects Incomplete Works Volume Three

    This volume of Incomplete Works is about DWA's design for a prototype building called The College of Colour (CoC). The design development was influenced by events of Mies' posthumous career that took place in the 1980s. They were, first, a pair of public inquiries...
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  • Urban Design Thinking: A Conceptual Toolkit by Dovey, Kim
    Kim Dovey

    Urban Design Thinking: A Conceptual Toolkit

    Urban Design Thinking provides a conceptual toolkit for urban design. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, it shows how the design of our cities and urban spaces can be interpreted and informed through contemporary theories of urbanism, architecture and spatial analysis. Relating abstract...
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  • Doctor Watson Architects Incomplete Works Volume Two by Watson, Victoria
    Victoria Watson

    Doctor Watson Architects Incomplete Works Volume Two

    This volume returns to Mies' New National Gallery in Berlin. The first volume included a short, introductory section on the NNG, but it merely skimmed the surface of what was in truth an intense preoccupation with that building. DWA were fascinated by the NNG...
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  • Doctor Watson Architects, Incomplete Works, Volume One by Watson, Victoria
    Victoria Watson

    Doctor Watson Architects, Incomplete Works, Volume One

    This is the first in a series of books documenting the work of Doctor Watson Architects (DWA). Unlike professional architects, who earn their living by managing the design of buildings, DWA earns theirs by other means, connected to the design of buildings but not...
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  • Doctor Watson Architects Incomplete Works Volume Five by Watson, Victoria
    Victoria Watson

    Doctor Watson Architects Incomplete Works Volume Five

    This volume of Incomplete Works gathers together a number of speculative design projects made by Doctor Watson Architects in the early years of the 21st century. Most, if not all, of the projects began as a response to a specific architectural competition brief, however,...
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  • Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades by Easterling, Keller
    Keller Easterling

    Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades

    How outlaw "spatial products"--resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, and ports--act as cunning pawns in global politics.In Enduring Innocence, Keller Easterling tells the stories of outlaw "spatial products"--resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, ports, and other hybrid spaces that exist...
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  • The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities: Urban Planning, Imperial Power, and the Improvisational Itineraries of the Poor by Obert, Julia C.
    Julia C. Obert

    The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities: Urban Planning, Imperial Power, and the Improvisational Itineraries of the Poor

    The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities is a comparative study of architectural space in four (post-)colonial capitals: Belfast, Northern Ireland; Windhoek, Namibia; Bridgetown, Barbados; and Hanoi, Vietnam. Each chapter takes up one of these cities, outlining its history of building and urban planning...
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  • Nordic Classicism: Scandinavian Architecture 1910-1930 by Stewart, John
    John Stewart

    Nordic Classicism: Scandinavian Architecture 1910-1930

    Nordic Classicism presents the first English-language survey of an important yet short-lived movement in modern architectural history. It was through the Nordic classical movement that Scandinavian architecture first attracted international attention. It was the Nordic Pavilions, rather than Le Corbusier's modernism, which generated most...
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  • After Belonging: Objects, Spaces, and Territories of the Ways We Stay in Transit by Blanco, Lluis Alexandre Casanovas
    Lluis Alexandre Casanovas Blanco

    After Belonging: Objects, Spaces, and Territories of the Ways We Stay in Transit

    After Belonging examines the objects, spaces, and territories of our transforming condition of belonging. The global circulation of people, information, and goods has destabilized what we understand by residence, questioning spatial permanence, property, and identity--a crisis of belonging. Circulation brings greater accessibility to ever-new...
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  • Buildings Are for People: Human Ecological Design by Caplan, Bill
    Bill Caplan

    Buildings Are for People: Human Ecological Design

    Buildings are for People: Human Ecological Design offers a new approach to the process of conceiving architectural design, one that considers the interactions of the built environment with people and the natural environment. The book exposes our visceral and experiential connections to buildings, and...
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  • The Hieroglyphics of Space: Reading and Experiencing the Modern Metropolis by Leach, Neil
    Neil Leach

    The Hieroglyphics of Space: Reading and Experiencing the Modern Metropolis

    'Spatial images', wrote the German cultural theorist, Siegfried Kracauer, 'are the dreams of society. Wherever the hieroglyphics of any spatial image are deciphered, there the basis of social reality presents itself.' But how exactly are these spatial images to be deciphered? Hieroglyphics of Space...
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  • Participatory Design Thinking in Urban Design Education by Odhiambo Onyango, John
    John Odhiambo Onyango

    Participatory Design Thinking in Urban Design Education

    This book provides literature of the social movements that led to the rise of alternative design methods. It also critically examines the methodologies used and how they contribute to best practice in place-making; and it suggests universal application that may be incorporated in the...
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  • Public Humanities in Architecture: Reflections on Heritage, Culture, and History by Meuser, Philipp
    Philipp Meuser

    Public Humanities in Architecture: Reflections on Heritage, Culture, and History

    Anyone concerned with the history, tradition, and culture of our built environment will come across the term 'public humanities' sooner or later. At the interface between an academic discipline and the media-oriented culture industry, this subject has established itself not only in the US,...
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  • The Architect's Dream: Form and Philosophy in Architectural Imagination by Pickersgill, Sean
    Sean Pickersgill

    The Architect's Dream: Form and Philosophy in Architectural Imagination

    The Architect's Dream draws on a broad range of subject areas, from philosophy to film to mathematics and economics, to show that the path to meaningful architecture practice is always based in a deep commitment to the idea that architecture is first and foremost...
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  • Oase 115: Interferences Moving Across European Architecture Cultures by Agyin, Justin
    Justin Agyin

    OASE 115: Interferences Moving Across European Architecture Cultures

    Understanding contemporary European architecture as the product of infinite transcultural interferencesEuropean architecture is characterized by an ongoing exchange of cultures, ideas and influences. This issue of OASE discusses the poetics of architectural design that emerge from this complex web, as ideas developed in one...
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  • Oase 114: Optimism or Bust? by Devoldere, Stefan
    Stefan Devoldere

    Oase 114: Optimism or Bust?

    On the power of optimism in imagining a brighter future through architectureDespite climate catastrophes, increasing inequality and geopolitical instability, the field of architecture and urban design remains stubbornly optimistic about the future. This issue of OASE focuses on the optimism of a discipline which...
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  • Decoding Homes and Houses by Hanson, Julienne
    Julienne Hanson

    Decoding Homes and Houses

    Houses are not just assemblages of individual rooms but intricate patterns of organised space, governed by rules and conventions about the size and configuration of rooms, which domestic activities go together, how the interior should be decorated and furnished and what kinds of household...
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  • Writing Urbanism: A Design Reader by Kelbaugh, Douglas
    Douglas Kelbaugh

    Writing Urbanism: A Design Reader

    Urban design continues to grow as an increasingly important and expanding field of study, research and professional endeavour. Distinguished by its broad scope and comprehensiveness on the subject of urban design, this new collection combines selected essays from both practitioners and academia. Writing Urbanism...
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  • Savage Mind to Savage Machine: Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design by Nolan, Ginger
    Ginger Nolan

    Savage Mind to Savage Machine: Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design

    An examination of how concepts of "the savage" facilitated technological approaches to modernist design Attempting to derive aesthetic systems from natural structures of human cognition, designers looked toward the "savage mind"--a way of thinking they associated with a racialized subaltern. In Savage Mind to...
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