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The city as a project
The city as a project
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What if the city can be seen differently than as a sort of self-organising chaos? Shaped not only by material forces, but also by cultural and didactic visions, the city may instead result from political intention in the form of architectural projects. This collection of eight essays, edited by Pier Vittorio Aureli, examines a fascinating set of urban conditions across(...)
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What if the city can be seen differently than as a sort of self-organising chaos? Shaped not only by material forces, but also by cultural and didactic visions, the city may instead result from political intention in the form of architectural projects. This collection of eight essays, edited by Pier Vittorio Aureli, examines a fascinating set of urban conditions across(...)
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What if the city can be seen differently than as a sort of self-organising chaos? Shaped not only by material forces, but also by cultural and didactic visions, the city may instead result from political intention in the form of architectural projects. This collection of eight essays, edited by Pier Vittorio Aureli, examines a fascinating set of urban conditions across more than two millennia of history, from the political theology of the Islamic city to the political economy of Renaissance architecture, and from the planned Mesoamerican metropolis to the Fordist factory floor, revealing the ways in which the city arises from the constant interaction between ideas and spatial conditions.
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What if the city can be seen differently than as a sort of self-organising chaos? Shaped not only by material forces, but also by cultural and didactic visions, the city may instead result from political intention in the form of architectural projects. This collection of eight essays, edited by Pier Vittorio Aureli, examines a fascinating set of urban conditions across more than two millennia of history, from the political theology of the Islamic city to the political economy of Renaissance architecture, and from the planned Mesoamerican metropolis to the Fordist factory floor, revealing the ways in which the city arises from the constant interaction between ideas and spatial conditions.
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February 2014
February 2014
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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Architecture and abstraction
Architecture and abstraction
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In this theoretical study of abstraction in architecture—the first of its kind—Pier Vittorio Aureli argues for a reconsideration of abstraction, its meanings, and its sources. Although architects have typically interpreted abstraction in formal terms—the purposeful reduction of the complexities of design to its essentials—Aureli shows that abstraction instead arises from(...)
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In this theoretical study of abstraction in architecture—the first of its kind—Pier Vittorio Aureli argues for a reconsideration of abstraction, its meanings, and its sources. Although architects have typically interpreted abstraction in formal terms—the purposeful reduction of the complexities of design to its essentials—Aureli shows that abstraction instead arises from(...)
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Architecture and abstraction
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In this theoretical study of abstraction in architecture—the first of its kind—Pier Vittorio Aureli argues for a reconsideration of abstraction, its meanings, and its sources. Although architects have typically interpreted abstraction in formal terms—the purposeful reduction of the complexities of design to its essentials—Aureli shows that abstraction instead arises from the material conditions of building production. In a lively study informed by Walter Benjamin, Karl Marx, Alfred Sohn-Rethel, and other social theorists, Architecture and Abstraction presents abstraction in architecture not as an aesthetic tendency but as a movement that arises from modern divisions of labor and consequent social asymmetries. These divisions were anticipated by the architecture of antiquity, which established a distinction between manual and intellectual labor, and placed the former in service to the latter. Further abstractions arose as geometry, used for measuring territories, became the intermediary between land and money and eventually produced the logic of the grid. In our own time, architectural abstraction serves the logic of capitalism and embraces the premise that all things can be exchanged—even experience itself is a commodity. To resist this turn, Aureli seeks a critique of architecture that begins not by scaling philosophical heights, but by standing at the ground level of material practice.
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In this theoretical study of abstraction in architecture—the first of its kind—Pier Vittorio Aureli argues for a reconsideration of abstraction, its meanings, and its sources. Although architects have typically interpreted abstraction in formal terms—the purposeful reduction of the complexities of design to its essentials—Aureli shows that abstraction instead arises from the material conditions of building production. In a lively study informed by Walter Benjamin, Karl Marx, Alfred Sohn-Rethel, and other social theorists, Architecture and Abstraction presents abstraction in architecture not as an aesthetic tendency but as a movement that arises from modern divisions of labor and consequent social asymmetries. These divisions were anticipated by the architecture of antiquity, which established a distinction between manual and intellectual labor, and placed the former in service to the latter. Further abstractions arose as geometry, used for measuring territories, became the intermediary between land and money and eventually produced the logic of the grid. In our own time, architectural abstraction serves the logic of capitalism and embraces the premise that all things can be exchanged—even experience itself is a commodity. To resist this turn, Aureli seeks a critique of architecture that begins not by scaling philosophical heights, but by standing at the ground level of material practice.
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May 2023
May 2023
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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'Peter Eisenman : barefoot on white-hot walls' - published on the occasion of the eponymous personal exhibition at the MAK Vienna - gives a profound insight into the work of Peter Eisenman. The main focus is on Eisenman's most recent projects, such as the 'City of culture of Galicia' in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and the 'Memorial of the murdered Jews in Europe' in(...)
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'Peter Eisenman : barefoot on white-hot walls' - published on the occasion of the eponymous personal exhibition at the MAK Vienna - gives a profound insight into the work of Peter Eisenman. The main focus is on Eisenman's most recent projects, such as the 'City of culture of Galicia' in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and the 'Memorial of the murdered Jews in Europe' in(...)
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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March 2005, Vienna
March 2005, Vienna
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Peter Eisenman : barefoot on white-hot walls
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'Peter Eisenman : barefoot on white-hot walls' - published on the occasion of the eponymous personal exhibition at the MAK Vienna - gives a profound insight into the work of Peter Eisenman. The main focus is on Eisenman's most recent projects, such as the 'City of culture of Galicia' in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and the 'Memorial of the murdered Jews in Europe' in Berlin, Germany.
Peter Eisenman : barefoot on white-hot walls
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'Peter Eisenman : barefoot on white-hot walls' - published on the occasion of the eponymous personal exhibition at the MAK Vienna - gives a profound insight into the work of Peter Eisenman. The main focus is on Eisenman's most recent projects, such as the 'City of culture of Galicia' in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and the 'Memorial of the murdered Jews in Europe' in Berlin, Germany.
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March 2005, Vienna
March 2005, Vienna
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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Rome: The centre(s) elswhere
Rome: The centre(s) elswhere
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An authoritative visual essay on the relationship between urban politics, large scale design, and architectural form. A plan that addresses Rome’s consular roads, infrastructure, and landscape, together with a dense reflection on the meaning of Rome as "Urban Paradigm".
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An authoritative visual essay on the relationship between urban politics, large scale design, and architectural form. A plan that addresses Rome’s consular roads, infrastructure, and landscape, together with a dense reflection on the meaning of Rome as "Urban Paradigm".
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Rome: The centre(s) elswhere
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An authoritative visual essay on the relationship between urban politics, large scale design, and architectural form. A plan that addresses Rome’s consular roads, infrastructure, and landscape, together with a dense reflection on the meaning of Rome as "Urban Paradigm".
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An authoritative visual essay on the relationship between urban politics, large scale design, and architectural form. A plan that addresses Rome’s consular roads, infrastructure, and landscape, together with a dense reflection on the meaning of Rome as "Urban Paradigm".
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October 2010
October 2010
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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Dogma: Living and working
Dogma: Living and working
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Despite the increasing numbers of people who now work from home, in the popular imagination the home is still understood as the sanctuary of privacy and intimacy. Living is conceptually and definitively separated from work. This book argues against such a separation, countering the prevailing ideology of domesticity with a series of architectural projects that illustrate(...)
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Despite the increasing numbers of people who now work from home, in the popular imagination the home is still understood as the sanctuary of privacy and intimacy. Living is conceptually and definitively separated from work. This book argues against such a separation, countering the prevailing ideology of domesticity with a series of architectural projects that illustrate(...)
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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June 2022
June 2022
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Dogma: Living and working
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Despite the increasing numbers of people who now work from home, in the popular imagination the home is still understood as the sanctuary of privacy and intimacy. Living is conceptually and definitively separated from work. This book argues against such a separation, countering the prevailing ideology of domesticity with a series of architectural projects that illustrate alternative approaches. Less a monograph than a treatise, richly illustrated, the book combines historical research and design proposals to reenvision home as a cooperative structure in which it is possible to live and work and in which labor is socialized beyond the family—freeing inhabitants from the sense of property and the burden of domestic labor.
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Despite the increasing numbers of people who now work from home, in the popular imagination the home is still understood as the sanctuary of privacy and intimacy. Living is conceptually and definitively separated from work. This book argues against such a separation, countering the prevailing ideology of domesticity with a series of architectural projects that illustrate alternative approaches. Less a monograph than a treatise, richly illustrated, the book combines historical research and design proposals to reenvision home as a cooperative structure in which it is possible to live and work and in which labor is socialized beyond the family—freeing inhabitants from the sense of property and the burden of domestic labor.
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June 2022
June 2022
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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In recent years the idea of sacred space has not been considered a relevant topic in contemporary architecture, a neglect that is even more pronounced in terms of debates about the city. The texts and projects collected together in this book aim to redress this oversight, and re-open a contemporary understanding and discussion of the architecture of sacred space. The book(...)
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In recent years the idea of sacred space has not been considered a relevant topic in contemporary architecture, a neglect that is even more pronounced in terms of debates about the city. The texts and projects collected together in this book aim to redress this oversight, and re-open a contemporary understanding and discussion of the architecture of sacred space. The book(...)
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Contemporary Architecture
Contemporary Architecture
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November 2016
November 2016
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AA Agendas: Rituals and walls. The architecture of sacred space
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In recent years the idea of sacred space has not been considered a relevant topic in contemporary architecture, a neglect that is even more pronounced in terms of debates about the city. The texts and projects collected together in this book aim to redress this oversight, and re-open a contemporary understanding and discussion of the architecture of sacred space. The book itself is the result of a year-long investigation on the nature of sacred space and its manifestation developed in the AA’s Diploma Unit 14. It consists of design proposals that range from a multi-faith school in Strasbourg to the reconstruction of a festival hall in the city of Xian, China; from a Jesuit monastery in Detroit to a women’s Islamic centre in Paris. Each proposal is introduced by critical texts that analyse the political and ideological meaning of religious architecture. The book is complemented by essays by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Maria Sheherazade Giudici and Hamed Khosravi that focus on the relationship between forms of worship and architecture, and argue that within sacred space form must follow function – in other words, architectural space must adhere to the rituals through which the sacred is enacted, and that the meaning of sacred space goes far beyond the stereotypes of contemplation and spirituality, and instead aligns with the political and social ethos of the city.
AA Agendas: Rituals and walls. The architecture of sacred space
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In recent years the idea of sacred space has not been considered a relevant topic in contemporary architecture, a neglect that is even more pronounced in terms of debates about the city. The texts and projects collected together in this book aim to redress this oversight, and re-open a contemporary understanding and discussion of the architecture of sacred space. The book itself is the result of a year-long investigation on the nature of sacred space and its manifestation developed in the AA’s Diploma Unit 14. It consists of design proposals that range from a multi-faith school in Strasbourg to the reconstruction of a festival hall in the city of Xian, China; from a Jesuit monastery in Detroit to a women’s Islamic centre in Paris. Each proposal is introduced by critical texts that analyse the political and ideological meaning of religious architecture. The book is complemented by essays by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Maria Sheherazade Giudici and Hamed Khosravi that focus on the relationship between forms of worship and architecture, and argue that within sacred space form must follow function – in other words, architectural space must adhere to the rituals through which the sacred is enacted, and that the meaning of sacred space goes far beyond the stereotypes of contemplation and spirituality, and instead aligns with the political and social ethos of the city.
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November 2016
November 2016
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Contemporary Architecture
Contemporary Architecture
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The Project of Autonomy radically rediscusses the concept of autonomy in politics and architecture by tracing a concise and polemical argument about its history in Italy in the 1960s and early 1970s. Architect and educator Pier Vittorio Aureli analyzes the position of the Operaism movement, formed by a group of intellectuals that produced a powerful and rigorous critique(...)
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The Project of Autonomy radically rediscusses the concept of autonomy in politics and architecture by tracing a concise and polemical argument about its history in Italy in the 1960s and early 1970s. Architect and educator Pier Vittorio Aureli analyzes the position of the Operaism movement, formed by a group of intellectuals that produced a powerful and rigorous critique(...)
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The project of autonomy: politics and architecture within and against capitalism
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The Project of Autonomy radically rediscusses the concept of autonomy in politics and architecture by tracing a concise and polemical argument about its history in Italy in the 1960s and early 1970s. Architect and educator Pier Vittorio Aureli analyzes the position of the Operaism movement, formed by a group of intellectuals that produced a powerful and rigorous critique of capitalism and its intersections with two of the most radical architectural-urban theories of the day: Aldo Rossi's redefinition of the architecture of the city and Archizoom's No-stop City. Readers are introduced to major figures like Mario Tronti and Raniero Panzieri, who previously have been little known in the English-speaking world, especially in an architectural context, and to the political motivations behind the theories of Rossi and Archizoom. The book draws on significant new source material, including recent interviews by the author and untranslated documents.
The project of autonomy: politics and architecture within and against capitalism
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The Project of Autonomy radically rediscusses the concept of autonomy in politics and architecture by tracing a concise and polemical argument about its history in Italy in the 1960s and early 1970s. Architect and educator Pier Vittorio Aureli analyzes the position of the Operaism movement, formed by a group of intellectuals that produced a powerful and rigorous critique of capitalism and its intersections with two of the most radical architectural-urban theories of the day: Aldo Rossi's redefinition of the architecture of the city and Archizoom's No-stop City. Readers are introduced to major figures like Mario Tronti and Raniero Panzieri, who previously have been little known in the English-speaking world, especially in an architectural context, and to the political motivations behind the theories of Rossi and Archizoom. The book draws on significant new source material, including recent interviews by the author and untranslated documents.
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August 2012
August 2012
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Architectural Theory
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In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli proposes that a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a precondition for political, cultural, and social engagement with the city. Aureli revisits the work of four architects whose projects were advanced through the making of architectural form but whose concern was the city at large:(...)
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In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli proposes that a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a precondition for political, cultural, and social engagement with the city. Aureli revisits the work of four architects whose projects were advanced through the making of architectural form but whose concern was the city at large:(...)
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The possibility of an absolute architecture
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In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli proposes that a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a precondition for political, cultural, and social engagement with the city. Aureli revisits the work of four architects whose projects were advanced through the making of architectural form but whose concern was the city at large: Andrea Palladio, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Etienne-Louis Boullée, and Oswald Mathias Ungers. The work of these architects, Aureli argues, addressed the transformations of the modern city and its urban implications through the elaboration of specific and strategic architectural forms.
The possibility of an absolute architecture
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In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli proposes that a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a precondition for political, cultural, and social engagement with the city. Aureli revisits the work of four architects whose projects were advanced through the making of architectural form but whose concern was the city at large: Andrea Palladio, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Etienne-Louis Boullée, and Oswald Mathias Ungers. The work of these architects, Aureli argues, addressed the transformations of the modern city and its urban implications through the elaboration of specific and strategic architectural forms.
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March 2011
March 2011
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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Peu avant l'éclosion du Swinging London, du flying circus des Monty Python (1969-1974) et du contrôle cybernétique de la série Le Prisonnier (1967-1968), l'architecte Cedric Price (1934-2003) va, au début des sixties, initier deux projets culturels et éducatifs restés mythiques : le Fun Palace (1961-1965, non réalisé) et la Potteries Thinkbelt (1963-1967, non réalisé).(...)
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Peu avant l'éclosion du Swinging London, du flying circus des Monty Python (1969-1974) et du contrôle cybernétique de la série Le Prisonnier (1967-1968), l'architecte Cedric Price (1934-2003) va, au début des sixties, initier deux projets culturels et éducatifs restés mythiques : le Fun Palace (1961-1965, non réalisé) et la Potteries Thinkbelt (1963-1967, non réalisé).(...)
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Cedric Price: Potteries thinkbelt & fun palace
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Peu avant l'éclosion du Swinging London, du flying circus des Monty Python (1969-1974) et du contrôle cybernétique de la série Le Prisonnier (1967-1968), l'architecte Cedric Price (1934-2003) va, au début des sixties, initier deux projets culturels et éducatifs restés mythiques : le Fun Palace (1961-1965, non réalisé) et la Potteries Thinkbelt (1963-1967, non réalisé). Dans leur formalisme modulaire comme dans leur esprit très évolutif, le premier est imaginé comme « un grand chantier naval installé dans n'importe quelle zone industrielle », tandis que le second entend se substituer aux fabriques de porcelaine moribondes du Staffordshire. Dans leurs essais, S. Mathews et P. V. Aureli en déconstruisent la portée programmatique et la signification sociétale.
Cedric Price: Potteries thinkbelt & fun palace
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Peu avant l'éclosion du Swinging London, du flying circus des Monty Python (1969-1974) et du contrôle cybernétique de la série Le Prisonnier (1967-1968), l'architecte Cedric Price (1934-2003) va, au début des sixties, initier deux projets culturels et éducatifs restés mythiques : le Fun Palace (1961-1965, non réalisé) et la Potteries Thinkbelt (1963-1967, non réalisé). Dans leur formalisme modulaire comme dans leur esprit très évolutif, le premier est imaginé comme « un grand chantier naval installé dans n'importe quelle zone industrielle », tandis que le second entend se substituer aux fabriques de porcelaine moribondes du Staffordshire. Dans leurs essais, S. Mathews et P. V. Aureli en déconstruisent la portée programmatique et la signification sociétale.
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April 2016
April 2016
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