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Please draw an 18th-century gentleman or gentlewoman with a massive hairdo. #RADailyDoodle

Thrilled to set an early alarm to join this conversation next week!

Cy Twombly, The Italians, Rome, January 1961 moma.org/collection/wor… #cytwombly #museumofmodernart

Join tomorrow for a Zoom conversation about early modern architecture, academies, and the actors rejected from the institution! 5pm CET/11pm EST

And be sure to attend the remaining sessions (through December) in this Actors at the Margins online dialogue series!

Thrilled with today’s delivery, ft. my essay on mixed media in early modern Italian architectural design (and stunning essays on travelling drawings, paper models, drawing on non-paper media, among others) Brepols

We are thrilled to announce INTERVIEWS ON METHOD: 8 conversations with scholars of architecture + the built environment about their methods/methodologies, pedagogies & ethical considerations for conducting research. The interviews encompass: (thread 1/11) bit.ly/38R1tpS

Interested in the ways that myths and misperceptions shape cartographic representation? Click for my recent essay for CCA, Canadian Centre for Architecture / CCA, Centre Canadien d’Architecture and other contributions to the "Figuring Territory" web issue, edited by Claire Lubell, Alexandra Pereira-Edwards, and Andrew Scheinman

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Seven Famous Towers of Italy: Bologna [2], Modena, Cremona, Florence, Pisa, Venice (1701) britishmuseum.org/collection/obj…

As Mark Twain wrote re. this plan, "And they wouldn’t even have been content to sleep around outside of the Sepulcher, those dead Medicis—they would have got up and climbed in.” For more on the early modern geopolitics of moving architecture and moving stone:

Over at CCA, I wrote about the representations of carceral systems in 19th-c. London guidebooks and how policing is written into touristic experience. Part of the “In suspicion of…” series, alongside wonderful essays by @elizaperti, Shivani Shedde and Emilie Banville:

This week, as we approach the opening of #TheLivesofDocuments (2 May 2023) we publish an article in which #BasPrincen and #StefanoGraziani introduce their approach to selecting and researching photographic projects from CCA collection and beyond. cca.qc.ca/en/articles/89…

feeling a deep sense of kinship with the 15th century flemish illustrator who drew this adorable tiny dog crawling through the page of a manuscript 🥹

For its new web issue, Keep Safe/Pour votre sécurité, the CCA seeks contributions on how safety is regulated, defined, and experienced in the built environment - all time periods, geographies, approaches, formats welcome! Spread the word⬇️Deadline 2 October 2023