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Bollone, Valvestino

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if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

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24h left on the 15% off sale in the shop. Ends noon tomorrow, Thursday:

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I’ve seen this small stop on the second Centre Block offered in publications as a portrait of Thomas Fuller (architect of the first Centre Block) but never much saw the likeness. Surely, if there’s a carving of Fuller on the building it’s the grotesque perched on a nearby gablet.

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Easter decorations: check

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Reading Marinetti’s manifesto of 1909 realizing that these chuds offer nothing new nothing interesting nothing meaningful just a rehash of that old Futurism cum Fascism. Just an aping of the same misogyny and cruelty and technophilia, only with less wit less self-awareness than old Filippo had.

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My personal architectural favorite for Palm Sunday: the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig. Not just for the fabulous palm capitals, but also the site for the premier of Bach's Johannes-Passion (1724).

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1958 scheme for a model town at Iqaluit: a central thin-shell concrete dome housing community facilities, 700’ in diameter, with residential towers for 4500 people. Credited to E.A. Gardner, chief architect of the Department of Public Works, & Ted Fancott, chief of the Preliminary Design Division

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today I'm taking wins where I find them

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SAVE THE DATE: "Opus Architectonicum: A Symposium Honoring Joseph Connors" 12 May 2025, 9:00-18:00 | Notre Dame Rome, via Ostilia 15 Info & registration (also for live stream): rome.nd.edu/events/2025/... (Program to follow soon. Thanks to David Mayernik for the poster!) #earlymodern #arthistory

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Design (to borrow from Pye’s The Nature & Art of Workmanship) is the part of making that can be communicated by abstraction like words & drawings; and workmanship is that part of making that can’t be. So the absent architect is here referenced by a sketch, and the stonecarver by a limb at work.

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A great photo of capitals being carved in situ, post office, Woodstock, Ontario, ca. 1901 The carvings in the foreground are complete and the pinned drawing depicts the other-hand unfinished capitals just out view; the carver at work is barely visible as leg & foot & empty coat.

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Design (to borrow from Pye’s The Nature & Art of Workmanship) is the part of making that can be communicated by abstraction like words & drawings; and workmanship is that part of making that can’t be. So the absent architect is here referenced by a sketch, and the stonecarver by a limb at work.

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A great photo of capitals being carved in situ, post office, Woodstock, Ontario, ca. 1901 The carvings in the foreground are complete and the pinned drawing depicts the other-hand unfinished capitals just out view; the carver at work is barely visible as leg & foot & empty coat.

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It’s real!

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Eventide, Toronto Skyline, circa 1932 Artist: Peter Clapham Sheppard (1879–1965) Medium: Oil painting on board #1930s #painting #skyscrapers #impressionism #torontoart #art #artist #oilpainting #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Toronto Sky-Line Toronto folks, what do you think? Ca. 1935?

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Help spread my petition for change #disability #autismacceptance ##CDPP

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man and sack, Ohio sandstone

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I’m not reposting anything with RFK Jr’s face on it out of respect for xour eyes but “autism epidemic” is like saying “freckles epidemic” or “cleft chin epidemic” it’s not a disease it’s just a way some people are and the thing we need to fix is a hostile societal framework.

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Imagine hiring an artist-in-residence at a Canadian college, and then publicly censoring that artist for a “political statement” based on complaints by USAmericans during a Canadian sovereignty crisis. Did they WANT to be famous for all the wrong reasons? Kudos to the artist, shame on the college.

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Canadian media: Artist Christopher Griffin (Ottawa and PEI based) has just left his Artist in Residence position at Atlantic Veterinary College because US professors objected to a painting. He was given the option of taking it down, or leaving. He left. @sproudfoot.bsky.social @seansnmurphy.ca

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slob ice Queensway & the canal

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stair addition, Immaculata High School plays with the motif of proliferating buttresses that decorate this otherwise classically organized building

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