writing about modernism in Ethiopia and Italy, building sustainably, Dean of the College of Architecture and Planning at University of Colorado Denver
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21 May 2025
Happy birthday to the OG Brutalist Marcel Breuer. Two perspectives of the sublime @UNESCO hq in Paris (completed 1958) with Bernard Zehrfuss, Pier Luigi Nervi, Isamu Noguchi, and others. From the Syracuse University digital archive of Breuerās papers.
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12 May 2025
Happy sesquicentennial birthday, Charles Holden, who led the design team for London Transport's brilliant interwar tube stations, bringing Art Deco cosmopolitanism to the metropolis and suburbs. Adams Holden & Pearson, St. James's Park Underground Station, London, 1924. @RIBApix
28 May 2017
Charles Holden, section and elevation of Arnos Grove Underground station, London, 1932. @RIBA goo.gl/JxDIJt
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10 May 2025
Appreciating Helmut Jacoby's command of atmosphere in the renderings he completed for architects like I.M.Pei. Here is a 1961 perspective of the @EversonMuseum of Art and its plaza at Syracuse University from the collection at M . Such great use of entourage for scale and depth.
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5 May 2025
Sketches of the Carrillo Gil Art Museum in Mexico City by Augusto Ćlvarez and Enrique Carral, commissioned by pediatrician and modern art collector Alvar Carrillo Gil in 1958.
Drawings conserved in the Acervo de Arquitectura Mexicana, Facultad de Arquitectura, UNAM.
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30 Apr 2025
An architecture of joy, dignity, and service: Sam Mockbee's colored pencil, pastel, and watercolor sketches of Lucyās House, Masonās Bend, Alabama, from 2001. One of the iconic works of @ruralstudio, in the collection of the @cmoa.
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29 Apr 2025
Rendered perspective of a compelling early scheme for the First Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana, by Eliel Saarinen (with Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames). Dated December 1939 in the Cranbrook Archives, it shows a serrated wall (sadly abandoned) and the pool (later demo'd).
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24 Apr 2025
Happy birthday, John Russell Pope. What a great sheet of sketches for the National Gallery of Art, commissioned by Andrew Mellon. Dig that axonometric. nga.gov/research/gallery-arcā¦
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15 Apr 2025
Buon compleanno, Leonardo da Vinci. His project for Milan Cathedral, like every sheet of architectural studies in his oeuvre, is a whole world of exploration, ideation, and invention.
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30 Mar 2025
Was thinking abt Daneri's post-war housing for INA-Casa, like the complex in via BernabĆ² Brea, Genoa, 1953-57. If Piazza Rossetti was the perfect hinge between the Bisagno and Foce, the later works are impressive for how they deal with the Ligurian topography.
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25 Sep 2015
Luigi Carlo Daneri, perspective of Piazza Rossetti development, Genoa, 1937. Archivio Daneri.
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29 Mar 2025
Sad to hear of the death of Barbara Neskiāpioneering modernist, legendary teacher, and Jersey girlālast week at age 97. Designer (with her partner and husband, Julian) of exquisite projects like the Marc and Judith Savage House, Amagansett, 1978-82.
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11 Mar 2025
I really dig the use of negative space in this rendered perspective of OMA's 1985 competition entry for the Morgan Bank Nederland building (a mix of offices and apartments) in Amsterdam. Like a Miesian pavilion carved out of a solid block.
oma.com/projects/morgan-bank
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11 Jan 2025
Had a chance to write about the @BalHarbourShops popup store by @LOT_EK and #StudioZewde in the latest @ArchRecord. Shipping containers, supergraphics, and a portable tropical garden "in an ephemeral yet elegant machine for shopping."
10 Jan 2025
Twenty-eight shipping containers create a portable version of Floridaās famed Bal Harbour Shops that combines industrial materials with elegant design. architecturalrecord.com/artiā¦
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5 Dec 2024
We really need to bring back shaded elevation studies. Henri Ciriani turned a 1982 commission for a hospital kitchen in Paris into a full-blown workers club. From UIA International Architect, 1983.
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4 Sep 2024
Another perspective of Correa's brilliant Kanchanjunga apartments in Mumbai.
27 Sep 2015
Charles Correa, section perspective of Kanchanjunga apartments, Mumbai, 1983. goo.gl/3qf1yP
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3 Sep 2024
Time to get back to posting inspiring drawings. Going to start with a gorgeous collaged section perspective from the @DrawingMatter collection depicting the 1968 design for a school in La Spezia, Italy, by Superstudio.
drawingmatter.org/adolfo-natā¦
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31 Jul 2024
Got to write a brief critique of the first #masstimber house in Miami-Dade County.
12 Jul 2024
Designed by the husband-and-wife team behind Atelier Mey, House in a Garden serves as a living laboratory for its architects.
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28 Jan 2023
Fendika is one of the most joyous places Iāve ever been. Bravo, Melaku!
27 Jan 2023
Iām happy to share my TED talk at go.ted.com/melakubelay. It is the first TED talk given in Amharic (with English translation by Mehret Mandefro), about my love for Eskista and Ethiopian culture, ...#tedtalk #fendikaculturalcenter #melakubelay #ethiopia
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