🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Join our #CSCASeminar this Friday to hear Dr Michael J Waters, Assistant Professor at Columbia University, speak on #materiality + #architecturaldrawings in his seminar: ‘Copying, Conformity, and Classicism: Architecture after Vignola’. 12pm Downing College Zoom: csca.aha.cam.ac.uk/seminar-series/

A fabulous architect, and a wonderful person. Antoine was bemused by my lack of interest in the British motorcycle industry, but he was a key presence during my time in ABQ and it was a privilege to watch such a prestigious architect talk to and encourage students on equal terms

On Oct 7, over 300 women in Israel were tragically killed and subjected to sexual abuse. Dozens of French mothers gathered in Paris to mark International Women's Day, stand in solidarity with Israeli women and demand the release of the 19 women still held hostage by Hamas 🇫🇷🇮🇱

We have just started our Symposium in Honour of Richard Hewlings with tributes from CSCA director Frank Salmon and Matthew Walker, reflecting on his unparalleled career as an architectural historian, scholar, detective, editor and writer #NotesandQueries

This looks *fabulous*.

How do we rebuild after catastrophe? Whether earthquakes, urban fires, or the damage of war, architectural history has important lessons to teach us about how cities and settlements were rebuilt and reconstituted after their destruction.

Fantastic opportunity right here, two postdoctoral fellows in architectural history.

A dramatic pose, for a dramatic building. Hugely enjoyed showing the Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture summer school round Oxford today. Keble the highlight. Brilliant students, open to the gothic and, indeed, modernism, as well as the classical.

Good news bulletin: Plymouth city centre's fabulous post-war civic architecture has been given a £2.1 million deep-clean, thanks to grant funding from Historic England and other match funders. Pictured is Pearl Assurance House (Alec French, 1952). What a difference a good scrub

Plymouth's wonderful 1950s stripped classicism has been given a much-needed clean!

I appreciate that I'm prolific today re assisted suicide. (By the weekend, I'll be asleep and / or watching Christmas movies. Or horror films...) But here's something I wrote for The Guardian that might help some disabled people's fears for changing the law theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Many MPs are still undecided about tomorrow's vote. Here I will highlight some MPs who have voiced their opposition in the last 24 hours or so, with their reasons as to why:

I'm sorry we lost. We will fight every remaining stage of the bill. I don't want to hear MPs a decade down the line saying they regret their votes. You knew.

It’s lucky we have a famously competent state, a well-funded health service, & courts with plenty of time on their hands, or I’d be worrying that this is a terrible decision

I haven't seen a single person defend this policy. Because it's indefensible. Class war at the expense of children.

Our Seminar Series VIII is now up! All are welcome to attend Downing College noon on Fridays during term. In person and Zoom.

Important message from Chris here. The long straw supply in East Anglia is under threat. Those of us that own thatch need to start making some noise.

Stepping in at short notice to give tomorrow's CSCA seminar. Please come/attend online if you're interested in: the legacy of Roman Britain, the history of building conservation, and the public shaming of people who demolish historical architecture for profit!

PhD studentship! Come and work with me at Cambridge (where I'll be based from September) and the Centre for Studies of Home Museum of the Home We're looking for someone interested in early modern art/architecture/social history to work on painting in lower-class homes: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51170/

‼️ The CSCA invites applications for Funded PhD studentships. More information on how to apply can be found here: csca.aha.cam.ac.uk/opportunities/…