Architectural historian. Tweeting events #OTD in #architecturalhistory. #Baroque, #earlymodern & beyond. #Detroit diaspora. Same handle @ 🦋
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Bernini`s Architectural Drawings - An Extended Edition of Brauer and Wittkower’s Catalogue of 1931 (Römische Forschungen der Bibliotheca Hertziana, Band 38)
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#earlymodern #baroque #architecture #drawings
11 Sep 2025
Coming this month: our Bernini's Architectural Drawings, edited by Tod Marder.
It's really 2 books in one: a translation (mine) and historiographic edition of Brauer & Wittkower's 1931 study, & a modern treatment of Bernini's architectural drawings.
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Asam Church, Munich
Egid Quirin Asam and Cosmas Damian Asam, 1733–46
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Jun 11
not saying it’s cooler than Chicago but if anyone visiting America for the World Cup makes it to Detroit I will give you a free architecture tour
Man I love architecture and been researching these past days…is there any city in the US with cooler looking architecture than Chicago? I haven‘t found one yet 😅🇺🇸
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Palazzo Carignano rappresenta il simbolo del barocco e incanta con le sue forme curve e l'atrio monumentale ovale ⚜️
Qui, tra le mura dove nacquero i Re, batte ancora il cuore del Risorgimento ✨
@PalCarignanoTO @DRMuseiPIE
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Architect of one of the weirder, most wonderful churches in Italy, here in the lower two images: Santi Giovanni e Remigio in Carignano.
Happy birthday, Benedetto Alfieri.
June 8, 1699 in Rome, Italy.
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When the number of likes on a post clearly surpasses the population of the town in question.
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Happy birthday, Johann Conrad Schlaun.
June 5, 1695 in Norde, Warburg, Germany.
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Knockout exhibition @MuseumofCityNY of charming once-lost-now-conserved murals for Gouveneur Hospital, art works stewarded by @NYCHealthSystem Arts in Medicine program and also overseen by the @nycpublicdesign
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Read me on Pei’s Tandy House in Fort Worth wallpaper.com/architecture/r…
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RT @grenadine: I love how her work captures Detroit vernacular architecture.
I used to live in a version of this two flat. They were build…
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May 30
Kurt Vonnegut’s father Kurt Vonnegut Sr. and grandfather, Bernard Vonnegut, were both very prominent Indianapolis architects. So you’ll be seeing that name come up a lot.
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AT&T Building (1932) in downtown Indianapolis by the firm Vonnegut Bohn & Mueller. A modern multi-floor addition was later added to the original Art Deco tower.
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In Vogue Italia, welcome article on @AmAcademyRome McKim Medal Gala. H/t Allegra Brennan vogue.it/article/american-ac…
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May 27
The Mark Twain Memorial Shrine in Florida, Missouri, built in 1959 to house the cabin where Mark Twain was born
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Un castello immerso nel verde, dove ogni stanza ha qualcosa da raccontare 🍃
Il Castello di Govone, grazie alla sua vista senza precedenti sulle Alpi, è il posto perfetto per godersi le belle giornate tra mitologia, natura e arte ✨
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LOL look at that Hassam painting of a puny 77 foot Stanford White-designed arch @PhillipsMuseum
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May 20
Reading about another billionaire Gilbert project. This is how I'll always remember J. L. Hudson Co. in Detroit. Oil painting by Jim Williams.
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Dear Mr. President, the Portuguese, with the help of French sculptors, did triumphal arches far better than you possibly could. Please don’t bother. #Arco da Rua Augusta, Lisboa, 1873.
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Happy birthday, Giacomo Amato.
May 14, 1643 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
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