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        | BIBILIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES |  |  |  |  |  |   
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                                    | Materia 33, settembre-dicembre 2000 [Architettura in acciaio/Steel architecture], pp. 25 (22-27) (saggi/essays) |  
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                                    | Werner Blaser, Mies van der Rohe. Lakeshore Drive Apartments, Birkhauser, Basel 1999 |  
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                                    | Lotus international 99, dicembre/december 1998 [Forma e struttura/Form and Structure], pp. 25 (24-31) |  
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                                    | Franz Schulze, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Editoriale Jaca Book, Milano 1989, pp. 239-243 |  
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                                    | Sandro Marpillero, "L'insostenibile pesantezza dell'architettura", Rassegna 36, dicembre/december 1988 [Minimal], p. 68 (66-73) |  
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                                    | Bruno Zevi, Spazî dell'architettura moderna, Einaudi, Torino 1973, tav. 215-217 [III. I maestri del periodo razionalista] |  |  
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