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- ↑ Lynn Becker, "Return of the Chicago Seven". ArchitectureChicago PLUS. 14 September 2005. Blogspot. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
- ↑ "The Chicago Seven, plus one, design an 'exquisite corpse' to create a row of post-modernist townhouses." Architectural Record. June 1978:39.
- ↑ Oral History of James Lee Nagle, interviewed by Annemarie van Roessel, compiled under the auspices of the Chicago Architects Oral History Project, the Ernest R. Graham Study Center for Architectural Drawings, Department of Architecture, the Art Institute of Chicago. 2000, p. 83.
- ↑ Charles Jencks, The language of post-modern architecture. The fifth edition, Academy Editions, London 1987, p. 134 (with illustrations).
- ↑ Charles Waldheim and Katerina Ruedi. Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
