Classical Architecture: Rule and Invention
- ISBN-10
- 0879052465
- ISBN-13
- 9780879052461
- Series
- Classical Architecture
- Category
- Architecture / Individual Architects & Firms / General
- Pages
- 159
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988
- Publisher
- G.M. Smith, Incorporated
- Author
- Thomas Gordon Smith
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- 2003
- 231 pages
- Paperback
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- 1997-12-01
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- Paperback
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- 1992
- 231 pages
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