#ArchitectureAndEnergy history. Author: Architecture: From Prehistory to #ClimateEmergency (Pelican 2021) and Raw Concrete. Head of HARC @livuni. Own views.
Liverpool, UK
Joined August 2011
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Can I recommend moving over from Twitter to Bluesky? It's much less prone to notify you of tweets chosen to annoy you, and doesn't suppress links, etc. It's growing immensely fast, so now is the time to move. Look up starter packs on topics you like, to find the people to follow.
Today looks like being the day Bluesky hits 20m users. Why are you on here instead? It's active, congenial, and thanks to starter packs you can quickly find your communities of interest.
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I know there are bigger worries today, but to do something small and good, please sign this petition to save two excellent #Brutalist towers in #Loughborough. (Great photo by @new_brutalism)
change.org/p/save-towers-hal…
My first three books. For news of the next three, currently in varying states of incompletion, come over to Bluesky, where I'm unsurprisingly Barnabas.Calder. It's charmingly low-troll over there, and lots of good #builtenvironment, #sustainability and #architecture people.
A niche question for #history, #energy and #energyhistory people: does anyone know what the fuel for al-Mahalla al-Kubra cotton mill in #Egypt was at its foundation? #coal? and if so when did it move over to #oil and #renewables? Any help hugely appreciated!
Speaking at this next week: do come along in person or join online if you can - fantastic range of speakers looking at a massively important topic as we face the need for urgent systemic change today:
carta.anthropogeny.org/event…
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This week on The Brief Dr @EwanHarrison speaks with @MerlinFulcher about Sadiq Khan’s new powers to pedestrianise Oxford Street, a blocked listing bid for Portsmouth Civic Offices and plans to transform Dunn Sports Centre into a skateboarding facility. 🎧: ow.ly/8Iob50TpV9R
I'm trying out Bluesky Social, on the recommendation of the excellent @MarketUrbanism. If you're on there, or want to explore it as a gaggle of #architectureandenergy people, I'm barnabascalder.bsky.social. Hope to see you there.
Glad to see @guardian recognising Liverpool as one of the top three #architecture schools in the country.
@LivUniArch @livuninews @livuniHSS
Perfect setting for a meeting to discuss the reuse of buildings.
@messumswest
On Saturday I'm speaking at "Restore Not More" @messumswest, alongside @FCBStudios, @haworthtompkins, @MikhailRiches, Witherford Watson Mann, @FeildenFowles, @ChaplinFarrant and @_SW_News. I'm putting the case for #repair and reuse as the historical norm.
messums.org/exhibitions/arch…
My illustration is the close wall at Salisbury Cathedral, built of stone from demolished Old Sarum. Photo (and abundant fascinating info) courtesy of John McNeill and his excellent article on the subject: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Truly shocked by the ruinous state of the Bernat Klein studio. One of the flying beams on the front elevation seems to have somehow been decapitated - the severed end lying in undergrowth below. Very sad…
Dave the planet: build with second-hand copies of my book.
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You are in amongst the recycled building materials at Rotor Déconstruction in Brussels.
rotordc.com/shop/page/26
