Kevin Block

You are what you build? Phila. mayors imagine themselves.

A real-fake telegram that someone sent to Robert Geddes, long-time head of Princeton's School of Architecture, upon his retirement from academic administration in '82. Gropius died in '69.

Star and Joaquim put together a great documentary segment about the Pyramid Club that will air on PBS-WHYY on Tuesday evening. Honored to support their "precious place"! @ScribeVideo @whyy youtube.com/watch?v=aIpgGX…

@jblumgart @IngaSaffron An important civil rights site in Center City: phila.gov/media/20200808…

There's a new tower planned for Rittenhouse, at 19th and Chestnut where the CVS is located (and will be coming back in the base of the high rise): inquirer.com/real-estate/ho…

@Mowhan Oh wow

Bookman!

takin a nice hot cabinet bath at the brooklyn central ymca ca.1915. From Lupkin (2010).

bliblioteca aldo rossi. from ghirardo.

beautiful piece! theamericanscholar.org/portrait-of-a-… @witoldr

Herbert Matter, "A Man Dressing" (1944)

@ugwigr you will either make the team or own the team!

Inspiration. I just need 1 year in a pro soccer league. Just 1 chance. I will make it.

truly inspiring scholar. was happy to originally publish this interview back in 2016 w/ @RoomOneThousand.

To build in 15th-c. Rome, one had to acquire a "petraria" warrant, identifying which older buildings would provide reused masonry building material. The marble loggia of Old Saint Peter's, for example, was built from the ruins of the Baths of Caracalla and other structures.

down the rabbit hole about birch bark canoes after reading calloway on early american fur trade, culminating in this amazing YT doc. youtube.com/watch?v=bPvbKg… books - colin calloway and john mcphee. painting - frances anne hopkins. drawing - edwin tappan adney.

Will be speaking next week with @PreservationPHL about assembling the "Christian Street/Black Doctors Row" Historic District. All are invited! Ticket info below. 25017.blackbaudhosting.com/25017/Real-Evi…

Went to an excellent lecture by Carol W. Smith yesterday @CarpentersHall. I didn't realize how large and significant this topic was until she explained the relationship between colonial insurance companies, the Carpenters Company, and the mapping of the built environment.

Working on a preservation project of a property with a "fire mark." This one, with the four clasping hands symbol, is for Ben Franklin's Philadelphia Contributionship, the oldest fire insurance company in the US. More info here (v bottom): firemanshallmuseum.org/fire-marks/

My second favorite Baltimore trash wheel, after Prof. Trash. Five Minute Histories: Mr. Trash Wheel youtu.be/x8RZBMn7mZM via @YouTube

Tindley Temple with @PhilaAthenaeum. Designed by @Ballingerae 1923-28.

These are called "busybodies" or "busybody mirrors." The Nest doorbells of the Colonial/Antebellum periods. Franklin introduced them to Philadelphia after visiting Paris. You can still see replicas in Society Hill. kilianhardware.com/franbus.html bit.ly/3B0T7Uu