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The function of style presents the architectural landscape as an intricate web in which individual buildings are the product of ideas which have been appropriated from other buildings designed for the different activities of everyday life, ideas which are varied to produce singular buildings that are related to one another but also different. Buy the function of ornament by farshid moussavi, michael kubo isbn. A groundbreaking visual survey of architecture designed by women from the early twentieth century to the present day. Nov 09, 2009 dezeen and publishers actar have got together to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of the function of form by farshid moussavi, academic and cofounder of foreign office architects. The function of form by farshid moussavi goodreads. Buy the function of form by farshid moussave, harvard gsd isbn.
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