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By Sarah Ichioka and Michael Pawlyn. Triarchy Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781913743260
By Patrick M. Condon. Springer, 2019, ISBN: 9781610919616
Edited By Michael Schley and Alexi Marmot. IFMA, 2021, ISBN: 9781737903222
by Phillip Jones. Crowood Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781785008986
By Rob Harris. Routledge, 2021, ISBN: 9780367646721
by Sophia Psarra. UCL Press, 2018, ISBN: 9781787352391
By Barnabas Calder. Pelican, 2021, ISBN: 9780241396735
By Michael Harris. Routledge, 2019, ISBN: 9781138708808
By Nick Baker & Koen Steemers. RIBA Publishing, 2019, ISBN: 9781859467138
By Douglas Spencer. Birkhäuser, 2021, ISBN: 978035621631
By Judit Kimpian, Hattie Hartman & Sofie Pelsmakers. RIBA Publishing, 2021, ISBN: 9781859465875
By Helen Taylor and Sharon Wright, RIBA Publishing, 2020. ISBN: 9781859468814
By Daniel A. Barber. Princeton University Press, 2020, ISBN: 978-691170039.
By Madelena Hanc and Alexi Marmot. British Council for Offices, 2020. https://tinyurl.com/yxqy5so4
By Pierre d'Avoine. UCL Press, 2020, ISBN: 978-1-78735-054-0
By Jean-Claude Bolay. Springer, 2020, ISBN 9783030284190.
Edited by Daniel Sage and Chloé Vitry. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, ISBN: 9783319739960.
Edited by Kim Trogal, Irena Bauman, Ranald Lawrence and Doina Petrescu. 2019, Routledge, ISBN: 9781138065819
Edited by Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira & Ian Mell. 2019, Springer, ISBN: 9783030018665
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