*So* Detroit.

A not quite #FrescoFriday as a bit of a bonus, with this remarkable survival from the 'House of the Painters at Work' in Pompeii (IX.12.9). On the white ground of the wall, the preparatory sketches for the architectural scheme of the artists are clearly visible. #Archaeology #Pompeii 🏺

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Now available! Bernini`s Architectural Drawings - An Extended Edition of Brauer and Wittkower’s Catalogue of 1931 (Römische Forschungen der Bibliotheca Hertziana, Band 38) #earlymodern #baroque #architecture #drawings www.hirmerverlag.de/de/titel-32-...

Neuer RIHA Journal Special Issue online! Architekt:innen-Monographien. Kanonisierung, Kontextualisierung, Kritik Jetzt lesen: doi.org/10.11588/rih...

Absentee ballots are now available for Nov. 4 local elections that will be held in some communities. View a list of jurisdictions: go.mi.gov/RyGcR1074 Request a ballot at Michigan.gov/Vote or by contacting your city or township clerk.

Now available! Bernini`s Architectural Drawings - An Extended Edition of Brauer and Wittkower’s Catalogue of 1931 (Römische Forschungen der Bibliotheca Hertziana, Band 38) #earlymodern #baroque #architecture #drawings www.hirmerverlag.de/de/titel-32-...

Attention glass brick fans! "From 1937 to 2016, Port Allegany was also home to a factory of the Pittsburgh Corning Corporation ... the only producer of architectural glass building blocks in the United States."

Antifa ist überall.

AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research. Run, don’t walk.

I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, invites applications for their fellowship in the Digital Humanities itatti.harvard.edu/fellowship-d...

Vincent Scully’s 1950 modernist house in Woodbridge, CT listed in the National Register last week 👍👍👍 He designed it himself. portal.ct.gov/-/media/decd...

The architectural historian Ann Van Zanten died in this attack. Wife of architectural historian David Van Zanten #NorthwesternU emeritus. Justice long overdue. www.upi.com/Archives/198...

Avery Library's Newest Treasures @columbiauniversity.bsky.social magazine.columbia.edu/article/aver...

History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public. Starting this week:

The architectural historian Ann Van Zanten died in this attack. Wife of architectural historian David Van Zanten #NorthwesternU emeritus. Justice long overdue. www.upi.com/Archives/198...

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

RELIEF VALVE ON

Got to see this one in person yesterday. Absolutely extraordinary ceiling of small wooden tabs

The column and capitals! 😍 🏛️ 🧈

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 ⚖️🧵

Don't miss our 2-day international conference exploring the rich entanglements between allegory and scientific thought in Europe between 1300 and 1700. Book here: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/alleg... 24 - 25 October, 9am - 6pm #History #EarlyModernScience #Allegory

WWW: Online-Werkverzeichnis Henry van de Velde https://arthist.net/archive/50565

Der Dokumentarfilm «The Lost Caravaggio» erzählt von einem wahr gewordenen Traum des Kunsthandels. https://www.srf.ch/kultur/film-serien/neu-im-kino-operation-meisterwerk-kunst-kasse-und-ein-caravaggio

#Conférence Écrire et dessiner la danse : la «belle dance» (XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles) 🔎Née en 1700, la chorégraphie allie art de la danse et cartographie. Elle inspire encore la création contemporaine à partir du répertoire baroque. 🗓️ Samedi 20/09 👉 https://bit.pulse.ly/b9yj35tu6n

Ford's former UK HQ was turned into apartments. Having lived in a building originally designed as an office I hate the idea, but it is a fine looking building and, like the Dearborn building, is a local landmark, so it's a good thing that it survives, but a shame for the Dearborn building and area.

Yon mural. 🌞 🌇

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has issued an executive order to protect vaccine access. The order will ensure health insurance plans cover COVID vaccines and provides guidance instructing pharmacists and other health care providers to prescribe and administer them.

San Pedro de Lima, Peru. The Jesuit Basilica. Chapel of Jesus Child and Our Lady of O Below a close up of the image of the Altar of Our Lady of O; a painting of St Michael and Donor; and a painting of Our Lady of Rosary and Donor. The donors’ portraits are wonderful!

📢 The Federal Council plans to reduce the SNSF's budget by 270 million Swiss francs. The SNSF rejects these cuts. However, in order to be prepared, it has decided to cut costs in consultation with all partners. ➡️https://sohub.io/n2b1 #research #science #CHParl

Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato (Italy)

£895k for your own Smithsons building . . . themodernhouse.com/sales-list/u...

Architect at work, with painter's self-portrait at his easel reflected in the mirror. Fab friendship portrait by Bernardino Licinio. It's his day.

Apropos @stuartelden.bsky.social 's Sunday post on the French translation of Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism. progressivegeographies.com/2025/09/14/p...

It’s not like Ford is short on land … every generation of corporation cycling between box and swoop … another Natalie de Blois design disappears

This is a loss for Detroit. Ford also destroyed their Oakville HQ admin bldn up here 20/25 years ago, an echo of the Dearborn bldn. Ford built Oakville Assemply mid-1950s so the same spirit was in the air (can't find a pic of old bldn, not even earliest streetview)

Following on the demolition of the Union Carbide Building, albeit in NYC...also by Bunshaft and de Blois.

And just the sad irony of Ford having stepped in to rehab Michigan Central Station at the Detroit end of Michigan Avenue, but demolishing their own monument a few miles farther out on the same street. Detroit never learns... 😭

Since @midwestmodern.bsky.social doesn't post here very often, bringing this one over from The Other Place. This demolition will really hurt. Ford HQ was a fixed point in my mental map of Metro Detroit my whole life. @sah1365.bsky.social Archipedia entry: sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI...

Since @midwestmodern.bsky.social doesn't post here very often, bringing this one over from The Other Place. This demolition will really hurt. Ford HQ was a fixed point in my mental map of Metro Detroit my whole life. @sah1365.bsky.social Archipedia entry: sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI...

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935) The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Composition (2025)

At the Villa Malcontenta this morning

Same color combo brilliant in terra cotta too. 5354-58 N. Kimball (Edward P. Steinberg, 1928-29)

Konf: Geprägte Schönheit und Geschichte – Annäherungen an Goethes Münzsammlung https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157428 Winterthur, 25.09.2025-27.09.2025, Münzkabinett und Antikensammlung Winterthur

Nice article on Swiss housing cooperatives, focusing on the French-speaking part of the country. Attractive apartments and town houses, very affordable, with great amenities like car sharing. Works well in our local housing market. Thanks for the gift link!

Looking back at my express visit to Porto #keepswimming

@stuartelden.bsky.social is a master of the illuminating microstories of intellectual history; this one on how Bourdieu's translation of Panofsky shaped his and contemporary French thinking is a gem progressivegeographies.com/2025/09/14/p...

Circulating this interesting conference announcement at the request of an Italian colleague: "LOST CITIES IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: Sources, Experience, Imagery in #EarlyModern Period (XV-XVIII century)" Caserta, 16-17 October 2025 www.velociproject.org/en/events/ca...

"Ohne Pass in die DDR": Martin Luther King gives a sermon in East Berlin on 13 September 1964 www.zeit.de/wissen/gesch... via @zeitonline.bsky.social

"He also measured ancient and Renaissance buildings to understand past architectural engineering and design."