Christine Huckins Franck

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AIA, ASLA, DC Preservation League, Docomomo US, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Society of Architectural Historians, The Cultural Landscape Foundation, and others are suing the Trump administration over its plans for the Kennedy Center. ow.ly/yUpE50YxCx5

LAST WEEK: Call for Abstracts for 63rd International Making Cities Livable (IMCL) in beautiful Riga and Jelgava, Latvia, July 6-10. Join int'l leaders in research, practice and governance with effective solutions to key challenges of livable cities. imcl.online/post/first-spe…

John Simpson named 2026 Richard H. Driehaus Prize Winner; Philippe Villeneuve to receive Henry Hope Reed Award! Congratulations! Both so well deserved @ND_Arch. Link in comments.

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@DemocracyDocket Don't do it, @GovofCO, Colorado cannot cave to this regime. She was convicted, and rightfully so.

NEW: Colorado Gov. Jared Polis suggested he’s considering clemency for election denier Tina Peters. The announcement comes days after Trump vindictively vetoed a bill to fund a clean water pipeline for the state. bit.ly/3ZaSaaF

@cusackandrew I was married at this church. In Upperville, Virginia, it is a beautiful church, in design and construction.

Humbly good architecture.

Loved joining my colleague Brent Hull on his podcast discussing #classicism, #buildingcraft, and #architecture today. Ep. 110 Christine Frank: Architect | Passion For Craft Podcast youtube.com/watch?v=1lWYQc…

@jmassengale Wow, John, I had no idea! What beautiful things. I love the advertisement text.

@cghfranck Hi Christine, it was this:

Once upon a time, I had a store that sold this furniture:

The single best summary of contemporary classical architecture is @Grokipedia's, correctly sourcing it to both critique of modernism's planning and architectural theories as well as the rise of New Urbanism and post-modernism grokipedia.com/page/New_Class… H/t to @ggraham

Here’s how. In principle and … createstreets.com/wp-content/upl…

@ggraham @stevemouzon @jmassengale @Jhkunstler @JeffSpeckFAICP 95 or 96, as we were working on planning the first POWIA (Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture) American Summer School, which was summer of 1996.

@cghfranck @stevemouzon @jmassengale @Jhkunstler @JeffSpeckFAICP Charleston was my first, also. Was that 1996?

Seasoned New Urbanists from the mid/late 1990s: I recall there being on an active listserv way back then. Maybe it was AOL. Maybe Yahoogroups. Do y’all remember that? Does that archive exist anywhere? @jmassengale @stevemouzon @Jhkunstler @JeffSpeckFAICP

@stevemouzon @ggraham @jmassengale @Jhkunstler @JeffSpeckFAICP I love hearing these old stories. My first Congrezs was the final of the first four congresses, in Charleston. Back then, Michael and I had to split what we could afford to travel to. He went to the earlier ones.

@ggraham @cghfranck @jmassengale @Jhkunstler @JeffSpeckFAICP For a bit of context, my first real engagement with the NU was in 1999 and my first Congress was CNU VIII in Portland so networks that were gone by Y2K would have been things I likely had no knowledge of.

@stevemouzon @ggraham @jmassengale @Jhkunstler @JeffSpeckFAICP Lucy Rowland administered it for a long time. Does she still? She would know when it started.

@ggraham @cghfranck @jmassengale @Jhkunstler @JeffSpeckFAICP I don’t, but it was thriving by the time I arrived. I still remember my first substantial post, saying that the NU should never become the lapdog of any political party but should always stand strong on Charter principles.

@ggraham @stevemouzon @jmassengale @Jhkunstler @JeffSpeckFAICP If it was via aol, it was not tradarch. Was it maybe coming out after the first 4 congresses?

@cghfranck @stevemouzon @jmassengale @Jhkunstler @JeffSpeckFAICP I am nearly certain this was CNU-specific. And also 75% confident it was powered by AOL. Does that ring any bells?

@stevemouzon @ggraham @jmassengale @Jhkunstler @JeffSpeckFAICP Tradarch listserv, created after the Windsor Forum, still exists.

@ggraham @jmassengale @Jhkunstler @JeffSpeckFAICP You’re not referring to TradArch, are you? If so, I’m not sure whether it still exists.