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The Edifice Complex
Deyan Sudjic
Living and Working
Dogma
Architecture and Abstraction
Pier Vittorio Aureli
Rewriting Alberti
Peter Eisenman
Warped Space
Anthony Vidler
From Bauhaus to Our House
Tom Wolfe
How Architecture Works
Witold Rybczynski
The Seduction of Place
Joseph Rykwert
Point Line Plane
Kengo Kuma
Richard Rogers on Modern Architecture
Richard Rogers
Beauty, Neuroscience, and Architecture
Donald H. Ruggles
Monrovia Modern
Danny Hoffman
In Praise of Shadows
Junichiro Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Makers of Modern Architecture
Martin Filler
Why on Earth Would Anyone Build That
John Zukowsky
