Absolutely delighted to see that my article on Catholic chapels in Ireland from the 1790s to the 1820s is now available in Architectural History, the journal of the SAHGB - a real career dream come true to have an article in this journal, I must say! #skystorians www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I've just seen an enthusiastic post on LinkedIn written with AI, a heartwarming comment underneath also written with AI, and a grateful response to the comment by the author. What even is the point?

You wouldn't think I would go to the Duomo for Mass did you? Thanks to @rproctor.bsky.social I went to Parrocchia Santi Giovanni Battista e Paolo Apostolo. Sorry about the bad photos; the first Communion kids were practising a thing when I got there early so I had to be discrete.

Henri Lefebvre's conceptual triad is not the most salient aspect of the Production of Space, it's just the easiest to quote. Discuss.

Several overseas students have now told me they're not going to continue studies in the UK because it's too expensive. Free marketing insight there if anyone wants it?

Reading a harsh book review that says "most of the ideas and insights are not particularly new or earth-shattering" and feeling seen.

Percy Thomas's Swansea Guildhall appropriately standing in for bureaucratic fictional "Imperial Buildings" in London in latest BBC silly sci fi drama.

Modern churches in Italy - two book recommendations.

We are thrilled to be attending the Royal Society of Architects in Wales conference in Cardiff today! Stop by the Postmaster Suite to browse the latest books in our Architecture of Wales series 📚 Explore the whole series here: www.uwp.co.uk/series/categ...

Think I may have accidentally made my students admire John Portman. Still, I'm sure their studio tutors will be pleased. Won't they?

New set text for my second year course ...

James Gowan’s Schreiber House is on the market: sothebysrealty.co.uk/properties/b...

Just submitted my first ever planning objection to mark my shift into the meddling curmudgeon phase of life.

PSA: Miles Glendinning has started posting about tower blocks!

😮 Fully intact 1959 Case Study house for sale.

That's my weekend sorted. And the next one.

Laughing grimly at the Routledge book getting 1* reviews on Amazon purely because the pages fall out when you read it.

Looking forward to this.

Stumbled on the best reddit thread in architectural history.

Free online seminar alert - 'Down Under Webinar: Religion and Architecture in Australia' (via KADOC/KU Leuven), 8 Dec, 8am UK time. Registration link - kadoc.kuleuven.be/english/3_re...

Chequerboards (flint, ashlar, brick), Winchester.

Georgian Bath? How about Brutalist Bath! Sign the petition to save the fabulous little Church of the Good Shepherd in Batheaston (1966-67) from demolition, and allow the local community to buy it instead. ✍🏼 c.org/PdMGmFFhqZ

Lutyens's Campion Hall, Oxford. Tinkling bell capitals similar to those at New Delhi, and a busy proliferation of horizontal lines.

Delighted that the second review of my book on Percy Thomas is in Welsh, a comprehensive account over 3 pages by conservation architect Alwyn Harding Jones in 'Barn'. barn.cymru/en_gb/adeila...

Joyfully distracted at work by finding a black redstart on my building for the second time in a fortnight.

Preparing a session on essay writing, testing things on AI to show students what it can't do, and wow, it is still as bad as it was a couple of years ago, isn't it? It reads like GCSE essays.

Reading about how Mies van der Rohe re-enrolled all Bauhaus students in 1930 so he could expel those with communist allegiances, and turned the student residence building into classrooms so they couldn't live together and coordinate on site. Lovely chap.

Finishing touches under way for my talk on Percy Thomas's interwar modern classicism at the Lutyens Trust conference on 1 November. #20s30s www.lutyenstrust.org.uk/portfolio-it...

This is very good, can they also reinstate mine, since they lost it in a cyber attack?

I keep thinking there should be a biography of the prominent C20 classical architect everyone always ignores, Sir Edwin Cooper, but there's no way I'm going to write it myself. Anyone want to do it for a PhD, get in touch?

It's very difficult to get students to appreciate this when teaching modern architecture, but it is surely absolutely fundamental to understanding the appeal of modernism.

I’ve lots of photos to sort from today but here are a few to be going on with. Broadmead Baptist Church, Bristol (Ronald H Sims, 1968) Access arranged by @themodernist.bsky.social

I discovered Unzoomed and got Kyoto in one.

Le Corbusier: let us return to the platonic volumes, cubes, cylinders, what have you Asplund: [builds Stockholm Public Library] Le Corbusier: not like that

Amazing facts. It's almost as if people like education for reasons other than cash. Apparently this is bad?

Bath architecture + October sunshine = 💥

Recommend.

Starting a campaign to bring back Ecole des Beaux-Arts architectural drawing styles. drawingmatter.org/the-beaux-ar...

Not quite sure what's going on here but enjoying the idea of living in a Clarice Cliff world. Unbuilt competition-winning scheme for Croydon Civic Centre by F. W. Halfhide and R. J. O'Donoghue, 1935.

Mildly amused by this presumably lost corner of the 'Treasury Corridor' in John Soane's Bank of England.

Have just read the phrase "heretofore the vogue" and made a mental note to put it into use as often as I can.

lol

Everyday beauty (Antwerp edition)

After a lot of hassle trying to work out how to do a complicated thing tracking PhD student progress with partial information and formulae in very big spreadsheets, I've now finally cracked it - I wrote out a list on a word document.

My, look at this.

Law and order: Gunnar Asplund’s Gothenburg City Hall (1935-37). I got in here (legally) so you don’t have to, let’s go ⚖️🧵

We've had a huge accession of Salvation Army architectural plans covering the whole of the UK. Here are some lovely plans from the new hall at Hendon, designed in 1957 by C Wycliffe Noble

Soul crushed.

Oh great, they changed the researcher development framework so I now have to spend half an hour working out how it's different and change my PhD induction slides, thanks guys.

Could this whatsapp channel be an email is the new could this 3-hour teams meeting have been an email.