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Katachi
Takeji Iwamiya
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Donald Judd: Raume Spaces
Donald Judd et al.
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Basho
Matsuo Basho et al.
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A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals
Spiro Kostof
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About Looking
John Berger
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ABZ: More Alphabets and Other Signs
Julian Rothenstein et al.
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Act One
Moss Hart
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Ada, or Ardor
Vladimir Nabokov
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Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity
Elizabeth Wilson
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Adrian Frutiger—Typefaces: The Complete Works
Adrian Frutiger et al.
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Adventures in the Screen Trade
William Goldman
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Affect/Marcel
Marcel Duchamp et al.
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The Affluent Society
John Kenneth Galbraith
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After Method
John Law
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After Nature
W. G. Sebald
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The Afterlife of Emerson Tang
Paula Champa
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Against Architecture
Denis Hollier
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Against Interpretation
Susan Sontag
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Against Method
Paul Feyerabend
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Against Nature (A Rebours)
Joris-Karl Huysmans
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The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
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The Age of Missing Information
Bill McKibben
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AGI Annals
F.H.K. Henrion
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Agnes’s Jacket
Gail A. Hornstein
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Agricola and Germania
Cornelius Tacitus et al.
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Ai Weiwei’s Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006–2009
Ai Weiwei
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AIA Guide to New York City (5th ed.)
Norval White et al.
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Aim for a Job in Graphic Design/Art
S. Neil Fujita
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Air Guitar
Dave Hickey
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Aircraft
Le Corbusier
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Akhenaten
Naguib Mahfouz
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Albert Kahn: Architect of Ford
Federico Bucci
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Alec Issigonis
Andrew Nahum
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The Aleph
Jorge Luis Borges
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Alex Steinweiss: The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover
Kevin Reagan et al.
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Alexander Girard
Todd Oldham et al.
On Jonathan Adler’s Book List
On Wendy Goodman’s Notable Books of 2011 list
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Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
Andrew Bolton et al.
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Alexey Brodovitch
Kerry William Purcell
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
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All the King’s Men
Robert Penn Warren
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