Historian of Architecture / Frances and Gilbert P. Schafer Visiting Professor of Architecture @TaubmanCollege / Views my own

Joined December 2006
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It sure was a joy to play a night show at MVVA’s Mill Race Park as part of @exhibitcolumbus this past weekend #bassguitar
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You never forget your first Lynch. For Enrique Ramirez it was Dune (1984). Ramirez writes a tribute that looks back at the work of David Lynch, who he writes designed spaces that “were never just settings—they were characters themselves.” ow.ly/ruu250UIyMG

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Pete Segall (@petesegall) doesn’t discover Vivian Maier; Peter Schmidt takes an art-full immersion bath; Moze Halperin (@mozehalperin) loses the thread of Life and Trust and Enrique Ramirez (@enriqueramirez) finds his footing in patent law
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Enrique Ramirez on Robert A. M. Stern’s Disney Animation Building, a "pomo set piece" whose most recognizable feature is "a giant two-story blue wizard’s hat with yellow moons and stars like the one donned by Mickey Mouse in Fantasia. nyra.nyc/articles/disney-ani…
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It’s 1991 … here I am playing bass
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Do kids ride scooters in Florence or Siena? Asking on behalf of my soon-to-be 2-year old.
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“Your manuscript is Sebaldian, but not in a good way.”
What’s the most memorable feedback you’ve received on your work?
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Now streaming on YouTube: "Iceblink Space: Photography, Architecture, and International Law in the Circumpolar North" by Enrique Ramírez, part of the Yale Architecture Forum series. youtube.com/watch?v=_agNARH-…
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Headed to Florence and Siena from 7/6 - 7/20 for a friend’s wedding and some research … maybe I’ll see some colleagues there???
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I wrote about The Mouse for Los Angeles Review of Architecture #1, a specialty issue of @nyreviewofarch … take a peek! nyra.nyc/articles/disney-ani…
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Want to read something on Theodor Adorno, Thomas Mann, Sergei Eisenstein, and Mickey Mouse? Check out my piece on the Walt Disney Features Animation building in LARA #1. And also … SUBSCRIBE
Hopped off the plane at LAX, with a dream and…my copy of the Los Angeles Review of Architecture. Announcing LARA #1, guest edited by Mimi Zeiger (@loudpaper).
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I had a mushroom latte for the first time. It smelled like Amarillo Ramp and tasted like Double Negative.
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An excellent review of a long-awaited book!
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The Gift: Stories of Generosity and Violence in Architecture, exhibition @ArchTUM shows how buildings delivered as humanitarian, developmentalist, diplomatic & philanthropic gifts have shaped cities around the world, incl. Skopje, Kumasi, Ulaanbaatar & East Palo Alto. (1/7)
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My 17-month old daughter nabbed my phone and inadvertently made some videos. The screengrabs only hint to their “Blair Witch” quality.
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The meridians of late modernity course through the pages of these two books:
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I am so woefully out-of-step with such things, but I learned that novelist Paul LaFarge died earlier this year. I wrote one chapter of my dissertation while reading Haussmann, or The Distinction … a wonderful novel that I would not hesitate to assign for an arch. history class.
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I had a paper accepted to the next meeting of @eahn_org … a first for me, and very exciting!
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Shirley Jackson Herman Melville Thomas Pynchon Ursula K. LeGuin Roberto Bolaño
Omitting collected works, who are the top 5 authors in your library by number of books on your shelves? Burke McCarthy Rushdie Erdrich Hawthorne/Brown (Charles Brockden)
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