Should Be Writing · @DontMindMe
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Catherine Zipf · @catherinezipf
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Had a delightful conversation with Richard Davies for his Book Stories podcast about our Green Book project. Enjoy!

(Kinda wish he'd used an image of the Green Book instead of me...)

richarddavies.ca/podcast/blurb

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#greenbook #architecturalhistory #architecture #africanamericanhistory

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Should Be Writing · @DontMindMe
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Catherine Zipf · @catherinezipf
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Gotta love it when architecture lies to you!

A cute little wooden shed? Nope! It's concrete designed to look like anything but concrete.

The walls are a single slab, but textured to look like wood plank. The roof is cast to reflect shingles (WHY?!?). Ultimately, all is revealed by the damage to the roof, which pulls back the curtain on the fraud.

It neither stands out nor fits in. Why why why can't this poor building just be what it is?

#architecturalhistory #Nationalpark #concrete #fake

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Ashley Gardini · @AshleyGardini
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Chrysalis · @chrysalis
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Steeplejack at work. I own a 650th. share in this restored chimney, a listed building and monument to the former paper mills which are no longer on the River Don.

#aberdeenshire #architecturalphotography #SteepleSaturday #architecturalhistory #listedbuilding #aberdeen

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Ian Hunt · @ianhunt
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@modinmetro Oakwood -- that's interesting, I had never worked out that CH James did a station. There's a good chapter on him in the big Historic England book on Neo-Georgian -- about his domestic work and Norwich Town Hall, mostly. I'd better take a look at this!

#architecturalhistory

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SeaFury ๐Ÿฆœ ๐ŸŒง๏ธ · @Fury
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Historic buildings tour this morning with my history students.

#launceston #architecturalhistory

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Catherine Zipf · @catherinezipf
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Looking down the servant stairs at The Elms, in Newport, RI.

For "backstage" stairs, they are quite fancy, but they are dreadfully uncomfortable to climb; the rise/run ratio is way off. Can't imagine climbing up and down those with a full plate of food (which they didn't do, because there was a dumbwaiter).

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#newport #architecturalhistory #gildedage

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Ian Hunt · @ianhunt
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The architecture of Michael Hopkins had significant demonstration value in terms of serious consideration of environmental impacts, and in its thoughtful modes of contextual and historical thinking as well as structural and material innovation. If his works list looks like part of an establishment (so many prestige cultural commissions) there were also always smaller scale works. He was no stooge for city maketing. Guardian obituary: theguardian.com/artanddesign/2

#architecturalhistory #michaelhopkins

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Harriet Richardson · @HarrietRichardson
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Two more photos of the former Montrose Royal Infirmary. Taken recently, the infirmary opened in 1839, Glasgow architect James Collie Splendid front, messy behind!
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#architecturalhistory #hospitalhistory

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Harriet Richardson · @HarrietRichardson
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Former Montrose Royal Infirmary, opened in 1839, closed 2018, looking impressive still in the sunshine a week or so ago, despite broken windows.

#Montrose #scotland #architecturalhistory #medicalhistory #hospitals

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Ian Hunt · @ianhunt
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Tim Greyhavens · @tgreyhavens
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Students and followers of art history and the history of photography, check out Gettys free virtual library! You can download some gorgeous books at no cost.

getty.edu/publications/virtual








#photobooks #artbooks #freebooks #artconservation #architecturalhistory #historyofphotography #photohistory #arthistory

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Tim Greyhavens · @tgreyhavens
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Students and followers of art history and the history of photography, check out Getty's free virtual library! You can download some gorgeous books at no cost.

getty.edu/publications/virtual








#photobooks #artbooks #freebooks #artconservation #architecturalhistory #historyofphotography #photohistory #arthistory

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Ashley Gardini · @AshleyGardini
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Just a friendly reminder that May 1st is the deadline to submit your application to join one of the Society of Architectural Historian's lovely committees! There are so many to choose from, including the new Contingent Faculty Committee ๐Ÿ˜‰

@academicchatter

sah.org/about-sah/sah-committe

#academicmastodon #architecture #architecturalhistory #SAH #SocietyOfArchitecturalHistorians

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Ian Hunt · @ianhunt
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seeking distraction from today's real tasks in -- I have noticed that a church of the 1840s in Streatham Hill, South London (one I looked at for years from a cheap rented room), is twinned with the British Legation (Embassy) in Tehran. Both are by J.W. Wild, who must have been fond of square pyramidal forms. As an ambitious mid-C19 architect he followed his own lines -- influenced by contemp German architecture , exhibition sheds, etc.

#architecturalhistory

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