The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂 Booking available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

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...

This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

@wildtwin.bsky.social Great chatting with you today Jeff. Thanks for attending and talking with the first year students it was lovely to hear you talk about your work and processes. Thanks Stephen

Best buildings in Zurich, 2021-24 - sixteen projects, almost half of them retrofits. gutebauten.stadt-zuerich.ch

Manchester historians! @historylabplus.bsky.social and @porticolibrary.bsky.social are uniting again for another History Open Mic Night! Come down on Dec 11th to hear brilliant speakers from the Manchester history scene on a range of topics - book below! www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...

Zürich hat jetzt seine eigene M-Wort-Debatte, allerdings natürlich unter klassisch Zürcher Bedingungen mit direkt persönlichen Attacken auf einen guten Kollegen, Bernhard Schär

One off the bucket list … I hiked from Manchester to Liverpool over the weekend. 71 kilometres. Won't be doing that again anytime soon.

*sigh* No, that’s just the effect of several centuries of rain through an iron grate. Nobody was wasting precious oil during a siege. they were throwing piss

#AliceDavisHitchcock … how exciting!

Please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/al...

The 1985 Transport Act was one of the biggest policy failures of recent decades. Nothing better describes this than the chart below by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com. A combination of new powers and funding through 'bus franchising' is looking to reverse this.

When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.

Slightly diminish a band: Public Opponent

Facebook reminds me that a year ago I started a project of scanning the journals of the Central African Historical Association, based at the University of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, which ran from 1970 to the early 1980s. I have uploaded my scans to Dropbox here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ruzbp...

the scenario we all feared

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Worth a watch, now available with English subs. www.arte.tv/en/videos/RC...

William Knight, third-year student project for a Riverside Restaurant, Liverpool School of Architecture, 1946

More and more I am hearing from archivist pals who are receiving enquiries for records that don't exist because AI has somehow generated fake catalogue numbers and titles...

Anyone know anyone who wants to buy over 1,100 books and over 4,000 magazines of C20 architecture history/theory? An instant collection? Some incredibly rare and collectable magazines including Archigrams, Uppercase, Leonard Koren's Wet (the magazine of gourmet bathing), Arts & Architectures etc etc

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Shame, but WeTransfer is completely unusable now if this it strue.

Speechless.

Grok says Elon Musk tweaked the AI to "dial down the woke filters" and now it is apparently a full-blown Nazi

Winston Churchill in Zurich, September 1946

3MT® Final! Our first 3MT® finalist is Adefola Toye from HSS with her presentation “How do you build universities for a new nation?” #LivUni3MT

#LivUni #PGRs The Academy is proud to be hosting the University of Liverpool’s 3MT® Final 2025 today! We will be posting live throughout the day! Our 8 finalists representing the three faculties HLS, HSS and SE will compete today for this years overall competition winner! #LivUni3MT

Welcome to the archives.

Fascinating article on Gavin Stamp by Joshua Mardell in British Art Studies: main--britishartstudies-26.netlify.app/issues/26/ga...

My book is finally published! Percy Thomas: Modern Architecture as a National Service. www.uwp.co.uk/book/percy-t...

We're currently looking for someone to join us in Architectural History at Edinburgh for the 2025-26 year (and a little bit after) to cover a colleague's research leave: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

The Postwar Trinity

I know most historic periodicals only through bound volumes. I recently acquired some Architectural Review back issues from the 1930s and 1940s. Some of the covers are incredible!

MERKLEY: Are you gonna launch an investigation of the reported violation of the due process of several hundred people? P: It is not for me to call the balls & strikes M: You haven't read the Constitution? It says 'all persons'...it concerns me you're not familiar w/the core concept of due process

'Council Wigwam'

I don't come here often enough - such a wonderful campus @york.ac.uk …

University House, the vice-chancellor's residence, designed by Alan Balfour and Colin Beck as an integral part of the original mid-1960s' RMJM campus. Incredibly, @york.ac.uk has no further use for this and plans to demolish it.

Spotted at York University.

amazing how the cyber attack on the British Library still means that all recently published work (and that's a definition that stretches back several years) is completely unavailable to researchers, since they only acquired ebooks and that system is still down

Himes: This is his life now. He’s nowhere near qualified for the position he holds, so when he gets on a Signal chat with his buddies and says, ‘We’re a go. Centcom says all in. F-18s,’ it just makes him feel really, really good. Sadly, of course, it puts our people at risk.

@rproctor.bsky.social asked me to pass this one. You're welcome.

#architectureandenergy Happy to announce that our book "Form Follows Fuel" will be released in September 2025 www.amazon.co.uk/Form-Follows...

The Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐 www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

Pretty much sums it up

AI is plagiarism software. There is nothing original in it; it's merely various pieces of works by human beings that have been stolen and rearranged. "Leveraging" AI is leveraging the theft of other people's work and pretending you created something yourself. Why was this normalized so quickly?

Never thought I'd find Canadian politics interesting. Now I'm gripped. Read this brilliant response to Trump's demand that Canada become 51st state (actually states 51-60 because Canada has ten provinces, so 20 new US senators....). globe2go.pressreader.com/article/2817...

Scharoun's superb State Library in Berlin.