Witold Rybczynski writes about architecture, cities, and other things. Latest book: The Driving Machine (Norton).
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A richly informative obit for Christopher Alexander in the New York Times, by Penelope Green.
nytimes.com/2022/03/29/arts/…
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We need to think about the worst-case scenario that could arise from Putin's invasion of Ukraine. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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Does anyone think Ukraine wouldn’t be a valued member of NATO now?
Ukrainian military plays the anthem on the violin in front of his colleagues
Even in the most difficult days, the morale of the #Ukrainian army cannot be broken💙💛
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Must read. My brilliant, acerbic, and truly expert colleague Steve Kotkin. “A Scholar of Stalin Discusses Putin, Russia, Ukraine, and the West” | The New Yorker newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/s…
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The Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Two neighbouring houses are projecting the blue and yellow onto its facade. The ambassador is reportedly “apoplectic”.
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Canceled for screening Olivier's Othello. The truly grotesque thing is that Bright Sheng, the professor the woke red guards went after, experienced the original Cultural Revolution in China. michigandaily.com/news/acade… and brightsheng.com/bio.html
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The Shim-Sutcliffe door at the @corkingallery. It mystifies me that many architects don’t understand the importance of a front door handle
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I like how there’s just one guy in the Rolling Stones that dresses like a regular 77 year-old man.
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One of my favorite works of Montreal municipal design, to aid people who collect beer cans in parks for the refundable deposits
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I saw this and was like, Aren’t the Zombie FLW buildings enough! Now we are doing Zombie Mies!
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The most depressing finding of this report is how deeply illiberal the American students are who describe themselves as liberal. The worst of it is their disgusting enthusiasm for informing on professors and one another. ndsu.edu/fileadmin/challeyin…
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"The quality of Free America’s leaders steadily deteriorated—falling from Reagan to Gingrich to Ted Cruz, from William F. Buckley to Ann Coulter to Sean Hannity—with no bottom."
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“Where are we — in Moscow in 1953, when children were urged to report on their parents and siblings?” asks another Yale professor quoted in the @nytimes. That is a fair question. The nexus between informer and bureaucrat is a familiar one to students of totalitarianism.
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I don’t know what city this is and it doesn’t even matter
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Reading the brilliant @bariweiss on how the super-elite prep schools now mimic the woke antics of the universities, and pondering the strange phenomenon of totalitarianism without a dictator: city-journal.org/the-miseduc…
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Very sad news indeed. He was a marvelous architect, a cultivated and civilized man, and a joy to spend time with. He never doubted that both history and modernism mattered, and his work bridged the gap between them. washingtonpost.com/local/obi…
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America should not have a holiday that honors all Presidents of the United States indiscriminately.
Legally today is “Washington’s Birthday.”
We are not a monarchy.
