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Happy birthday to the OG Brutalist Marcel Breuer. Two perspectives of the sublime @UNESCO hq in Paris (completed 1958) with Bernard Zehrfuss, Pier Luigi Nervi, Isamu Noguchi, and others. From the Syracuse University digital archive of Breuer’s papers.

Happy sesquicentennial birthday, Charles Holden, who led the design team for London Transport's brilliant interwar tube stations, bringing Art Deco cosmopolitanism to the metropolis and suburbs. Adams Holden & Pearson, St. James's Park Underground Station, London, 1924. @RIBApix

Appreciating Helmut Jacoby's command of atmosphere in the renderings he completed for architects like I.M.Pei. Here is a 1961 perspective of the @EversonMuseum of Art and its plaza at Syracuse University from the collection at M+. Such great use of entourage for scale and depth.

Sketches of the Carrillo Gil Art Museum in Mexico City by Augusto Álvarez and Enrique Carral, commissioned by pediatrician and modern art collector Alvar Carrillo Gil in 1958. Drawings conserved in the Acervo de Arquitectura Mexicana, Facultad de Arquitectura, UNAM.

@KIERANTMBERLK Congratulations!

Read the full announcement: archplan.buffalo.edu/news/2025/kier…

On Friday, Dean Julia Czerniak announced that Founding Principals Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake will address the Class of 2025 at the @BuffaloArchPlan's 53rd Commencement, which will take place on May 16th at @UBuffalo's Center for the Arts.

An architecture of joy, dignity, and service: Sam Mockbee's colored pencil, pastel, and watercolor sketches of Lucy’s House, Mason’s Bend, Alabama, from 2001. One of the iconic works of @ruralstudio, in the collection of the @cmoa.

Rendered perspective of a compelling early scheme for the First Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana, by Eliel Saarinen (with Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames). Dated December 1939 in the Cranbrook Archives, it shows a serrated wall (sadly abandoned) and the pool (later demo'd).

Happy birthday, John Russell Pope. What a great sheet of sketches for the National Gallery of Art, commissioned by Andrew Mellon. Dig that axonometric. nga.gov/research/galle…

Buon compleanno, Leonardo da Vinci. His project for Milan Cathedral, like every sheet of architectural studies in his oeuvre, is a whole world of exploration, ideation, and invention.

@ProfDuff This is a Vermeer

Some window cat in South Philadelphia

Was thinking abt Daneri's post-war housing for INA-Casa, like the complex in via Bernabò Brea, Genoa, 1953-57. If Piazza Rossetti was the perfect hinge between the Bisagno and Foce, the later works are impressive for how they deal with the Ligurian topography. Archivio Daneri

Sad to hear of the death of Barbara Neski—pioneering modernist, legendary teacher, and Jersey girl—last week at age 97. Designer (with her partner and husband, Julian) of exquisite projects like the Marc and Judith Savage House, Amagansett, 1978-82.

I really dig the use of negative space in this rendered perspective of OMA's 1985 competition entry for the Morgan Bank Nederland building (a mix of offices and apartments) in Amsterdam. Like a Miesian pavilion carved out of a solid block. oma.com/projects/morga…

@PalettaAnthony We wrote about it in SAH Archipedia. Beautiful building, and a great story about preservation through adaptive reuse: sah-archipedia.org/buildings/FL-0…

Had no idea that Jacksonville’s convention center was in part a reuse of Kenneth Murchison’s Union Terminal

Had a chance to write about the @BalHarbourShops popup store by @LOT_EK and #StudioZewde in the latest @ArchRecord. Shipping containers, supergraphics, and a portable tropical garden "in an ephemeral yet elegant machine for shopping."

@ArtButSports 😂

@acmedef lol. wasn’t meant to be a 1:1 comparison to the photo, it was a before and after

Kevin is dialed in #PonyUp

@ArtButSports @SMUFB Mark Tansey was right there

@SMUFB Don Quichotte et la mule morte, by Honoré Daumier, 1867

We really need to bring back shaded elevation studies. Henri Ciriani turned a 1982 commission for a hospital kitchen in Paris into a full-blown workers club. From UIA International Architect, 1983.

@mcmansionhell @EscapeCycling Congratulations!