Kicked a Building Lately?Ada Louis Huxtable brings clarity as well as passion to her consideration of the problems and pleasures of architecture and urban planning. |
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The Monumental Muddle | 3 |
Failures | 10 |
The Lehman Wing of the Metropolitan Museum | 13 |
Copyright | |
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