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Architectural historian of the twentieth century.

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Architectural plan and section drawings of a complicated house with swirly landscaping inside a rectangular boundary, the house against two sides, little monopitch roofs popping up over living spaces, captions in Italian saying what the rooms are.

Architectural plan and section drawings of a complicated house with swirly landscaping inside a rectangular boundary, the house against two sides, little monopitch roofs popping up over living spaces, captions in Italian saying what the rooms are.

Important to have mid-C20 books to hand in my office to demonstrate good quality buildings and drawing methods to Gen Z architecture students, I find.

13.03.2026 15:15 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You'd also imagine he had enough writing skills that he didn't need AI to cough up garbage for him, but hey ho.

13.03.2026 12:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Modernisation of anything specific?

13.03.2026 12:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He's just jealous of beavers.

12.03.2026 11:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

1973 level of crisis incoming.

10.03.2026 22:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Less than a week left to apply!

10.03.2026 12:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is quite funny, the NYT author (AI?) thinks the great novelist mistakenly left out punctuation (presumably a comma after 'well'), misunderstanding the actually completely correct sentence that doesn't need punctuation.

10.03.2026 12:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I thought the site was (traditionally said to be) where Bramante's Tempietto is, at S. Pietro in Montorio?

09.03.2026 08:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Did some research this week. I think I'm on to something. Keeping it quiet, though, you never know who's listening.

06.03.2026 17:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"excavated"

05.03.2026 09:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Grandad's having one of his ill-informed whinges again is he? Must be time for his cocoa.

03.03.2026 21:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bristol's three listed Victorian urinals Moorish-style men's rooms

There are some extra fancy ones in Bristol. www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

28.02.2026 13:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not that I remember but in those days such things as chunky pine fittings, teak furniture, etc. just seemed an everyday backdrop. Saw a lot of teak tables with brass details being removed from Whitfield's Glasgow library a decade later.

28.02.2026 13:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Fake newspaper column headline purporting to be by Allister Heath in the Telegraph saying 'How the Marxist infiltration of Nikolaus Pevsner's Buildings of England poisoned the minds of the young'.

Fake newspaper column headline purporting to be by Allister Heath in the Telegraph saying 'How the Marxist infiltration of Nikolaus Pevsner's Buildings of England poisoned the minds of the young'.

Simon Bradley's fault. (Sorry, I'll stop now).

26.02.2026 17:49 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Fake newspaper column headline purporting to have been written by Allister Heath of the Telegraph saying 'We are sleepwalking into a totalitarian nightmare disguised as eighteenth-century landscape gardens'.

Fake newspaper column headline purporting to have been written by Allister Heath of the Telegraph saying 'We are sleepwalking into a totalitarian nightmare disguised as eighteenth-century landscape gardens'.

Is that bad?

26.02.2026 17:46 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And the Tange style library. Spent many good days in there.

26.02.2026 10:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Black Magic’s Yvonne Chireau Consults on Ryan Coogler’s Sinners Peggy Chan Professor Emerita of Black Studies and Professor Emerita of Religion Yvonne Chireau served as a historical consultant for Sinners, the hit new Ryan Coogler film set in 1930s Mississippi. Wr...

Here's one. There were surely more. www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/... (better source).

26.02.2026 07:58 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Expecting any rational, constructive policy at a time of such dire and irresponsible public discourse is probably doomed.

22.02.2026 12:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Universities should collaborate to help one go through a court case but you know they won't.

21.02.2026 19:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Latest thing on LinkedIn seems to be people using AI to write criticisms of other people using AI.

20.02.2026 08:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also, "the palace" potentially includes the candidate.

20.02.2026 08:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also (if you don't already know it this will blow your mind) cf my former colleague Mark Wilson Jones's theory that the Pantheon switched in short columns because the big ones were lost in a shipwreck, hence the weird shadow pediment.

19.02.2026 19:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Ancient Roman triumphal arch at Aosta, Italy, with Corinthian order under a Doric entablature. Quite wrong.

Ancient Roman triumphal arch at Aosta, Italy, with Corinthian order under a Doric entablature. Quite wrong.

I don't know, I've seen some cranky Roman rule-breaking, there's probably classical precedent if you look for it.

19.02.2026 19:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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'A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach' by Stanhope Forbes | The Box Plymouth This painting by Dublin-born artist, Stanhopes Forbes (1857-1947) is quite possibly the most popular work of art from our collections. Even though it’s been on display many times since it was acquired...

One of my favourite paintings but it's actually in Plymouth. www.theboxplymouth.com/blog/press-r...

19.02.2026 12:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing what you can get away with in a World Heritage Site.

19.02.2026 08:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Apart from the fact that yes, AI doesn't currently work all that well for this purpose, how do you think humanities assessment could test thinking process without an end product? (And sadly but necessarily, at large scale with few staff). This is the q we're all asking.

18.02.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Reading a book from 2013 with useful archive references, except the archive changed all the numbers in 2016 so I can't find them any more.

18.02.2026 15:09 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The point of Bsky is it has no algorithm. (Except for the Discover feed, which I don't think is customised to stoke narcissism in the same way as elsewhere).

18.02.2026 10:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Recently been on one where every single time I clicked on an entry to look at the details (even in a new tab), the overall search results go awry and I have to do the search again.

17.02.2026 12:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Eeew.

14.02.2026 13:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0