A search for the co-existence of abstraction-representation to bring meaning and authenticity to contemporary architecture

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1994
Kahyaoğlu, Temel Ali

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T. A. Kahyaoğlu, “A search for the co-existence of abstraction-representation to bring meaning and authenticity to contemporary architecture,” Middle East Technical University, 1994.