Part of it, I think, is about the kind of story you can tell. A lot of the “past was better” stories are journey stories where the main characters learn about themselves and their society. Would a renaissance dude go back with anything but depression?

Writing about the period when this stops being the case in the US has been eye opening. People believed in progress for a reason.

Ordinary people understand the value of social infrastructure and design that is not only appealing but relevant to their lives.

FYI you can just go work in the library here, M-Th. It's wonderfully quiet and I personally find the preternatural murmurs soothing.

Exactly my thought when I look on NCPC's website now.

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

Very concerning, although I have to mention that a lot of people in Chevy Chase didn't like it, including members of the Presbyterian Church it was outside of.

Wait, I totally missed that Trump and Grenell are painting the Kennedy Center’s columns white among other renovations. Despite being a die-hard KC hater I will say this: this is reasonably a violation of Section 106 of the NHPA and also a breach of NCPC and CFA review.

today!!

Jenny Holzer at Glenstone.

Effective collaboration and mentoring hinges on knowing what your partner does well or poorly. LLMs undermine this a bit by making this hard to assess

We were proud to join @marylanddot.bsky.social today to unveil a new roadside marker that highlights the rich history of BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. The sign will be placed on the south side of the airport near the BWI Trail.

Among many reasons she’d be good for DC is that Janeese is very open to building code reform and sustainability based on building science.

At the beginning of the 20th century, a lot of people regarded real estate as a scammy, penny-ante market. Professionalization by NAR/NAREB was meant to create a level and trustworthy playing field between expert Realtors®. That'd been deteriorating for a while if it was ever true. Now, it's gone.

I really thought I'd be hearing less about Helen Andrews at this point in my life.

To keep track of all of this scientists have developed two systems: floral diagrams where the form of a flower is abstracted into more legible form…

This episode is just pure delight.

Oh also I saw the grave of the guy that Beach Drive is named after.

The gap between Sliwa’s polling and his result really makes me think a lot of Republicans took marching orders from Trump. Not clear whether anyone else has that level of control, yet.

Every hot dog stand will in fact be replaced by the deconstructivist falafel stand from the 1995 Parker Posey vehicle Party Girl.

It was a sad but beautiful morning at Arlington today, laying the last descendant of James Neill to rest. Afterwards I took James to visit his daughter and son-in-law, a Tuskegee Airman. obits.jameshcole.com/clarence-ban...

Recently visited workstack in Charlton - a project by the Greenwich Enterprise Board and dRMM Studios. Light industrial spaces stacked on top of each other - CLT boxes, super minimal internal finish / super low embodied carbon

It’s fajr in America.

If they build an arch on this axis I will [jay jones.]

Convention has held us back, indeed.

Imagine how aloof Mamdani's wife must be right now. She's probably unconscious.

Anyway, let's keep this energy up.

Imagine how aloof Mamdani's wife must be right now. She's probably unconscious.

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Americans admire Singaporean governance but then wonder why they can't get the same level of skilled governance while considering everyone who works for the state evil and unworthy of their salary. Telling!

Hey, it’s Frank Gehry’s origin story. (Not the Christmas part)

Hard to overstate influence of the Russell Sage Foundation on the progressive campaigns in my book, including the American Civic Association and its campaigns in Washington.

🫡 to everyone who makes Maryland roadside markers possible.

After pulling her show from the Smithsonian, Amy Sherald opens in Baltimore. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Repost to give a tradcath a stroke.

Welp, looks like the haters have become the gators in my swamp of despair.

BTW fun fact, the term "bulldozing" predates the machine called a "bulldozer" by at least 50 years.

The AIA was founded around one simple goal: to ensure that America’s most important civic buildings were designed by men who had travelled to Italy and not, for the love of god, by anyone born there.

When I got the chance to write this article, I wanted scholarship that put the preservation of the White House in context. I see three themes in the story: 1. Reification of expertise 2. Growth of executive power 3. Use of DC as a testing ground (thread) 🗃️

But this isn’t the worst representation of Brezhnev-era architecture?

Doing very well with your parents and friends from back home. Just not on x, the site for savvy political operators who are thinking they should get an O9A tattoo. Odd!

Classicist will tell you the architectural establishment is hostile to traditional architecture as they tear down heritage buildings to build something that will be 30% fiberglass, and trendy architects are building Gottfried Semper's primitive hut in the Irish countryside.

I have muted the word "hamilton." If you want to discuss a work of art from 2015 on my timeline, please discuss Joanna Newsom's transcendent meditation on womanhood and mortality, the album "Divers."

It's sad that both the Post and Leigh have been reduced to this incoherent and historically illiterate drivel. But alas, the thrill of power and influence will corrupt you under the best circumstances, and Trump, well he certainly has the golden touch of turning brains to homogenate.

Just an FYI to everyone that Costco sells weeks worth of classic Octoberfest beers in a box. I’m a third of the way through and they’ve all been delightful.

The French have moved on from ecobrutalism and into ecobofillism.

Let's see how my post is doing on x dot com, a website for the smartest people to exchange loli cartoons with nazis.

The only thing that has ever stood in the way of the president building a big gaudy ballroom, is an understanding that the powerful would defer to self-appointed experts. And now we see what a bad system that was.

People focus on the sloppy drawings we’ve seen of the Epstein Ballroom, but this article lays out the subtler ways it appears to be technically incompetent.