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In addition being more thorough than the earlier work, the second edition also showed that mays architecture was going in new directions. Great ideas from the western garden book of landscaping. Stacking the buildings various functions produces its pyramidal form, which in turn is wrapped in 480 meters of bookshelves and reading spaces. Search the worlds most comprehensive index of fulltext books.