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A final reflection – and a thank you

As a historian and practitioner, I believe that the most cogent way of visualizing the future is by looking at its reflection in the past. By surveying pertinent chapters of social and architectural history in this column over the last 12 months – and with something akin to an abridged serialization of J. M. Freeman’s classic record of our Institute’s inception and early

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