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Douglas Murphy

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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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	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 3.69 avg rating — 48 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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Analytic Geometry and Vectors (Sixth Form Modern Mathematics)

by John Hunter

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The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries

by Robin Evans

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Gedichte

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Douglas Murphy is currently 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 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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