Architectural & urban historian / Assoc Prof @holy_cross / author: Modern Mobility Aloft (@TempleUnivPress) / Kniffen award @ISLPandMC / Buchanan award @VAFweb
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Using an online collection of historical urban atlases, Holy Cross students explored Boston’s landscape to examine how its historical landmarks have changed over time.
More: bit.ly/41zUEhH – at Worcester, MA
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Hey - I’m in @History Channel's show “History’s Greatest of All Time with Peyton Manning.” This week, Mon March 6 @ 10/9c, we rank the top 10 Greatest Daredevils. Not sure if I'm in it, but it's a fun watch regardless. Here’s a clip from last week’s on inventions
#GOATOnHistory
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I think this may be the longest piece the New Yorker has ever published online. Apologies for its length, but it sums up what I've been thinking for a while now:
The time has come to Stop Burning Stuff on planet earth, and rely on the burning sun instead
newyorker.com/news/essay/in-…
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Ah, this is wonderful news! Francis Diébédo Kéré is such a graceful, humane, and kind architect. And creates work with such astonishing beauty, both aesthetic and social. Thrilled for him.
Diébédo Francis Kéré is the 2022 Pritzker Prize winner, the first from Africa since the prestigious award was launched in 1979:
archpaper.com/2022/03/franci…
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This seems about right
(Credit: Stefanie Blank, Architect and Climate activist at Architects4Future de.linkedin.com/in/stefanieb…)
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Introducing "Black Moderns," a teaching & research resource.
A barrier in studying the history of Black architects is the lack of images of their work. As a small corrective, I've created a collection of my photos, with no restrictions on their use. 1/8 briangoldstein.org/black-mod…
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In honor of what would be Ada Louise Huxtable's 100th birthday on Sunday March 14, RECORD is sharing the tributes paid when she died in January 2013. architecturalrecord.com/arti…
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NEW: The mayors of Boston and New Orleans argue that green infrastructure is critical to surviving both the climate and coronavirus crises. trib.al/L5yFTVC
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Medgar and Myrlie Evers home became national monument today, Jackson, Mississippi:
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Join us 11/16 at 6pm as we explore urban history with @AmyFinstein, author of "Modern Mobility Aloft: Elevated Highways, Architecture, and Urban Change in Pre-Interstate America." How perfect is this for today's #30DayMapChallenge theme: 3D?
Register: boston-public-library.zoom.u…
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"When the biggest thing in a city that prizes bigness becomes the most fragile thing, and the void has more weight than the solid, the rules of city-building change," I wrote in The New Yorker after 9/11 .newyorker.com/magazine/2001/… via @NewYorker