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Douglas Murphy is an architect who has written a clutch of books and a lot of articles. He spends much of his time in an architecture school.

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Average rating: 3.77 · 181 ratings · 20 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Last Futures: Nature, Technology and the End of Architecture 3.89 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nincompoopolis: The Follies of Boris Johnson 3.67 avg rating — 49 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Architecture of Failure 3.58 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Snooty Tipoffs

by J H Prynne

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Gedichte

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Douglas Murphy finished reading Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Vol. 3, 1935-1938 by Walter Benjamin	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Douglas Murphy finished reading Analytic Geometry and Vectors (Sixth Form Modern Mathematics) by John Hunter	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Douglas Murphy rated a book it was amazing Up in the Air: A History of High Rise Britain by Holly Smith	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Douglas Murphy finished reading The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries by Robin Evans	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Douglas Murphy finished reading Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Douglas Murphy has read Structure in Nature is a Strategy for Design by Peter Pearce	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I really enjoyed this – Pearce is a slightly less out-there Fuller, more mathematically thorough but still exhaustive in his search for space-filling geometries. A funny thing happens towards the end of the book, however, where after the search for a ...more
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