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Professor Diana Agrest's Essay Published in the Review of Philosophy and Literature #4

POSTED ON: April 1, 2012

Diana Agrest, Park Square, Boston: A Fiction, 1978

Professor Diana Agrest's essay, Architecture from Without: Body, Logic, and Sex, which traces the relationship between architecture and the body through the ages, has recently been included in the Review of Philosophy and Literature #4, 2012. Published by The Institute of Philosophy at University of Warsaw, this current issue is dedicated to the Body.

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