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Architecture and Design Versus Consumerism: How Design Activism Confronts Growth
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ARCHITECTURE AND EMBODIMENT: THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES FOR DESIGN (PB 2013)
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Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka: The Trouser Under the Cloth
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Architecture in Development: Systems and the Emergence of the Global South
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Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959: Messages of Peace, Images of War (Ashgate Studies in Architecture)
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Architecture of Sovereignty: Stone Bodies, Colonial Gazes, and Living Gods in South India
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Architecture of the Periphery and Minimalism: Cartography and Minimalism (Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics)
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Architectures of Emergency in Turkey: Heritage, Displacement and Catastrophe (Contemporary Turkey)
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Architectures of Transversality: Paul Klee, Louis Kahn and the Persian Imagination (Routledge Research in Architecture)
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Archives of The Black Atlantic: Reading Between Literature and History
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Are SDGs a Myth?: Industrial Development and Water Pollution in India
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Are the Lips a Grave?: A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex
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