A relative from the Hesse branch of the family ended up as the education secretary of the American Civic Association. She was named Alix after her godmother, the last Empress of Russia, who was from Hesse.

You can get up close and personal with the working plaster at the DC archives. 👀👀

This piece of art at SFO is a great illustration of a prescriptive sprinkler installation that is probably unnecessary. I am sure it was the subject of many meetings.

Extremely sad news—I think Yu was pretty inarguably the most influential landscape architect of the 21st century.

I could listen to Mary Lattimore throw a harp down a flight of stairs. I’d get that on vinyl.

The oblique angles allow WCs to make a direct path to the drainage stack, rather than using multiple 45° and 90° elbows as often seen in American installations. While the oblique angles come with installation challenges, this approach reduces the risk of blockages and uses less material.

The biggest mystery in my research right now is that I have seven separate documents saying Harlean James was close to the Hoovers, especially her Stanford classmate Lou, but I have no firsthand statements about their relationship or documentation of any non-group social engagements.

Arthur Brown, Jr. was one of the few American beaux-arts architects whose public buildings don’t feel like tombs. I suspect this was because he was more interested in French architecture, instead of pursuing some mythical timelessness.

There are worse legacies for an architect than “everyone wants to get married in your building.”

Appreciated your work on this, @dicknixon.bsky.social

Paying homage to my political heroes. 😍😍

Had a free minute in San Francisco, so I couldn’t miss seeing this local icon!

SDA is also one of the fastest growing denominations globally, with major missionary campaigns in Africa. So don’t let a setback become a defeat.

Palo Alto really could be a paradise, but they made it strip malls and atomized houses.

I wonder if there are any other politicians of the era who held to this specific form of Jeffersonian rationalism regarding conservation and urban planning. Pic unrelated.

It's right to worry about the editing and censorship of history in museums and national parks, but this kind of historical erasure has the potential to do even more damage:

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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 ⚖️🧵

It does, as they say, look like a fjord.

Bridgeport also has this great Second Empire? Courthouse for Mono County.

Try as you might but you can’t make me stop posting gorgeous photos of California’s public lands.

Somehow, the Renzo Piano mall returned (to my timeline).

Here in Modesto and people are At The Mall.

If you ever want to stay in a caboose, you can do this on Virginia City. I honestly had a great time. www.airbnb.com/l/c6MxXf7W

Francis Newlands House and a monument to him in a neighborhood developed by his estate. In the other Reno he shaped.

Of unusual Flavor and Aroma, you say?

Hetch Hetchy you have to stop. Your swag too different. Your river too fly. Your wildlife too fire. they’ll flood you

It’s got everything!

I am often asked: Neil, what is the secret to your success in business, with women, and in retaining soil. It’s a simple philosophy I call:

I’m coming to think one of the reasons the “Wild West” faded culturally is because until the 70s, it served as a way to indulge in taboo topics (substance use, sex, violence, gambling, ambition). As secularization progressed, it wasn’t necessary.

Did you know Los Angeles drinks from the back slopes of Yosemite? Yes, the aqueduct stretches well north of the Owens Valley, into the western tributaries of Mono Lake, which has had predictably bad ecological consequences.

Did you know Los Angeles drinks from the back slopes of Yosemite? Yes, the aqueduct stretches well north of the Owens Valley, into the western tributaries of Mono Lake, which has had predictably bad ecological consequences.

Reverse shot.

"In many pits some of the hardest work was done by women or teenage girls. They had to carry coal to the surface by ascending steep ladders with heavy baskets on their backs fastened with straps to the forehead." Energy and Civilization, page 230-231

Guys this is gonna be a shock but I got pretty dehydrated in the desert.

Trump enters his Gordon Matta-Clark era (punching holes in his floor)

Almost everyone who emigrated via the California Trail passed over this terrain, the alkaline sink of the Humboldt River. Many people and even more animals died in the forty-odd miles between it and the rivers flowing from the Sierras. Hard to understand the mindset that propelled people across it.

True heads know. 💃🏾🕷️🕷️

It’s all blue foam? Always has been.

I bet this guy talks to his kids

I was really impressed by the California State Railroad Museum, and not just for the cocaine decor treatment they gave one of the locomotives owned by the Sharon-Newlands family.

Very interesting to learn that Virginia City was restored by the coiner of the term “café society,” who was also a train gay.

Turns out it was us what got Borked

Get ready for dam and desert posting. It’s gonna be like a wet-dry vac on this timeline

The Little Truckee River.

The desert reclaimed.

I can’t stop thinking about Calco corrugated steel waterway products.

Urban planning is so silly. Just create a synthesis of of city and country with no externalities lol

incredible photo on wikimedia commons that isn't currently used in any articles

This, too, is Abundance.