By far, the most interesting development project in Philadelphia. bloomberg.com/features/2021-… via Bloomberg Green

John Nakashima's documentary about his uncle is great! Would love to hear more from the filmmaker. Docomomo US/Philadelphia vimeo.com/ondemand/georg…

May Theilgaard Watts on English hedgerows, Frenchification, the hilltops of Italy, and descending the Alps.

These are called "busybodies" or "busybody mirrors." The Nest doorbells of the Colonial/Antebellum periods. Franklin introduced them to Philadelphia after visiting Paris. You can still see replicas in Society Hill. kilianhardware.com/franbus.html bit.ly/3B0T7Uu

Tindley Temple with The Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Designed by Ballinger 1923-28.

My second favorite Baltimore trash wheel, after Prof. Trash. Five Minute Histories: Mr. Trash Wheel youtu.be/x8RZBMn7mZM via YouTube

Will be speaking next week with PreservationAlliance about assembling the "Christian Street/Black Doctors Row" Historic District. All are invited! Ticket info below. 25017.blackbaudhosting.com/25017/Real-Evi…

down the rabbit hole about birch bark canoes after reading calloway on early american fur trade, culminating in this amazing YT doc. youtube.com/watch?v=bPvbKg… books - colin calloway and john mcphee. painting - frances anne hopkins. drawing - edwin tappan adney.

To build in 15th-c. Rome, one had to acquire a "petraria" warrant, identifying which older buildings would provide reused masonry building material. The marble loggia of Old Saint Peter's, for example, was built from the ruins of the Baths of Caracalla and other structures.

truly inspiring scholar. was happy to originally publish this interview back in 2016 w/ Room One Thousand.

Herbert Matter, "A Man Dressing" (1944)

beautiful piece! theamericanscholar.org/portrait-of-a-… Witold Rybczynski

bliblioteca aldo rossi. from ghirardo.

takin a nice hot cabinet bath at the brooklyn central ymca ca.1915. From Lupkin (2010).

Star and Joaquim put together a great documentary segment about the Pyramid Club that will air on PBS-WHYY on Tuesday evening. Honored to support their "precious place"! Scribe Video Center WHYY youtube.com/watch?v=aIpgGX…

A real-fake telegram that someone sent to Robert Geddes, long-time head of Princeton's School of Architecture, upon his retirement from academic administration in '82. Gropius died in '69.

You are what you build? Phila. mayors imagine themselves.