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What is Architecture? What and why the Classical?
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Square Edouard VII. Work of Henri-Paul Nenot.
One of those magical Parisian spaces.
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Happy birthday, Roma.
April 21, 753 BC.
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Van Impe, Denise - Kalandestraat 1, Ghent Belgium. 1980.
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Happy baptismal day, Sir John Vanbrugh.
January 24, 1664 in London, UK.
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Happy birthday, Giuseppe Galli Bibiena.
January 5, 1696 in Parma, Italy.
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Design for the facade of a town building, possibly a club house: elevation.
Architect/Designer: Goldicutt, John (1793-1842) RIBA Ref No RIBA67076
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Happy birthday, John Nash.
January 18, 1752 in London, UK.
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Happy birthday, Balthasar Neumann.
January 27, 1687 in Cheb, Czechia.
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Pluralist proposal: Mods build own cities, Trads build own cities, so mod bldgs stop riding trad bldg juxtaposition coattails. See which is more popular/visited, more sustainable/durable, which report higher levels of well-being and community vs. stress and alienation, etc.
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Happy birthday, Charles Barry.
May 23, 1795 in London, UK.
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Happy birthday, James Gibbs.
December 23, 1682 in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
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Château de Thoiry, work of Philibert de l'Orme.
The front portal marks the summer and winter solstice.
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Happy birthday, Henri Labrouste.
May 11, 1801 in Paris, France.
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Wonder what it must have been like to be Gian Lorenzo's younger brother, Luigi.
Padiglione di Diana a Villa Barbarigo, Valsanzibio Italy.
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Happy birthday, Jacques-Rene Hermant.
May 7, 1855 in Paris, France.
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Happy birthday, Richard Morris Hunt.
October 31, 1827 in Brattleboro, VT.
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Happy birthday, Arthur Blomfield.
March 6, 1829 in Fulham Palace, UK.
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Happy birthday, Aston Webb.
May 22, 1849 in Clapham, London, UK.
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Happy birthday, Frederick Dinkelberg.
June 30, 1858 in Lancaster, PA.
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Loving this late 19th century church ceiling truss design.
Menard, René - Église Notre-Dame de Clisson ceiling, France
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Happy birthday, Francois Mansart.
January 23 (or Jan. 13), 1598 in Paris, France.
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Happy birthday, Andrea Palladio.
November 30, 1508 in Province of Padua, Italy.
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Happy birthday, Christopher Wren.
October 30 (20 O.S.), 1632 in East Knoyle, Salisbury UK.
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Happy birthday, Jules-Hardouin Mansart.
April 16, 1646 in Paris, France.
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Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine entrance, Vezelay.
Not all doors are created equal.
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Happy birthday, Paul Gottereau.
March 29, 1853 in Perpignan, France.
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Happy birthday, Jacques-Rene Hermant.
May 7, 1855 in Paris, France.
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Happy birthday, Imre Steindl.
October 29, 1839 in Pest, Budapest, Hungary.
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Happy birthday, Georg Christian Unger.
May 25, 1743 in Bayreuth, Germany.
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Happy birthday, Jules-Hardouin Mansart.
April 16, 1646 in Paris, France.
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Details from the New Church in town...
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Happy birthday, Robert Adam.
July 3, 1728 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, UK.
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Happy birthday, Josef Zitek.
April 4, 1832 in Karlin, Czechia.
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Happy birthday, Peter Paul Rubens.
June 28, 1577 in Siegen, Germany.
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Happy birthday, Barrow Emmanuel.
February 4, 1842 in Portsmouth, UK.
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Happy birthday, Paul Gottereau.
March 29, 1853 in Perpignan, France.
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Lovely but flawed imo...
Kempster, Christopher - Market House, Abingdon UK
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Happy birthday, Charles Barry.
May 23, 1795 in London, UK.
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Happy birthday, Barrow Emanuel.
February 4, 1842 in Portsmouth, UK.
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Happy birthday, Victor Baltard.
June 9, 1805 in Paris, France.
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A lesson in buildings needing bases or plinths.
The ground is swallowing this one…or maybe it’s sinking…
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Happy birthday, Ernest George.
June 13, 1839 in London, UK.
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Happy birthday, Herbert Baker.
June 9, 1862 in Cobham, UK.
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Happy birthday, Gavriil Baranovsky.
April 6, 1860 in Odessa, Ukraine.
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Happy birthday, Albert Walwein.
June 11, 1851 in Rully, France.
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Happy birthday, Michelangelo.
March 6, 1475 in Caprese Michelangelo, Province of Arezzo, Italy.
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Happy birthday, Joan Rubió i Bellver.
April 24, 1870 in Reus, Spain.
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Happy birthday, Otto Wagner.
July 13, 1841 in Vienna, Austria.
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Carrere and Hastings' competition entry for the US Post Office across from NY Madison Square Garden, which was won by McKim Mead and White.
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Happy birthday, Paul Saintenoy.
June 19, 1862 in Ixelles, Belgium.
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Happy birthday, Charles Mewes.
January 30, 1858 in Strasbourg, France.
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Some urban thresholds of the italian provinces (meaning, lesser known examples from lesser known towns and cities). Thread.
1/ Porta San Biagio, Lecce.
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Happy birthday, Martin Haller.
December 1, 1835 in Hamburg, Germany.
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Happy birthday, Francois Mansart.
January 23 (or Jan. 13), 1598 in Paris, France.
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Happy birthday, Thomas Fuller.
March 8, 1823 in Bath, UK.
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Happy birthday, Julian Abele.
April 30, 1881 in Philadelphia, PA.
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Happy birthday, Fr. Guarino Guarini.
January 17, 1624 in Modena, Italy.
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Pharmacie Lesage a Douvres-la-Delivrande, France.
Architect: François Rouvray.
Delightful.
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Happy birthday, Balthasar Neumann.
January 27, 1687 in Cheb, Czechia.
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Happy birthday, Watson Fothergill.
July 12, 1841 in Mansfield, UK.
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Happy birthday, Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret.
June 2, 1767 in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
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Happy birthday, Louis-Marie Cordonnier.
July 7, 1854 in Haubourdin, France.
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Happy birthday, Paul Gottereau.
March 29, 1853 in Perpignan, France.
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#OnThisDay
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Happy birthday, Francesco Borromini.
September 25, 1599 in Ticino, Switzerland.
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Happy birthday, A.W.N. Pugin.
March 1, 1812 in Bloomsbury, London, UK.
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Happy birthday, Pietro Bernini.
May 6, 1562 in Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
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Happy birthday, Charles Garnier.
November 6, 1825 in Paris, France.
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Happy birthday, Emmanuel Héré
October 12, 1705 in Nancy, France.
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Happy birthday, William Henry Crossland.
May 10, 1835 in Halifax, UK.
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Happy birthday, John Russell Pope.
April 24, 1874 in New York, NY.
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Happy birthday, Julius Raschdorff.
July 2, 1823 in Pleß, Germany
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Happy baptismal day, Sir John Vanbrugh.
January 24, 1664 in London, UK.
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Fouquiau, Paul - Théâtre de l'Athénée, Paris France.
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Happy birthday, Alfred Waterhouse.
July 19, 1830 in Liverpool, UK.
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Happy birthday, Inigo Jones.
July 15, 1573 in London, UK.
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Happy birthday, David Bryce.
April 3, 1763 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
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Happy birthday, Andrea Palladio.
November 30, 1508 in Padua, Italy.
#architecture
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How it started. How it's going.
The future of adaptive re-use.
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Parasitic architecture. Post your own.
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Happy birthday, Inigo Jones.
July 15, 1573 in London, UK.
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Happy birthday, Karl Felsko.
May 18, 1844 in Riga, Latvia.
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Happy birthday, Victor Louis.
May 10, 1731 in Paris, France.
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Of course, some few who are so much smahter and more edukated than the plebs will tell us that we can't make aesthetic judgments or imaginatively enter into these scenes to do so. How many responses before someone condemns with disneyland trope?
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Happy birthday, Antoni Gaudi.
June 25, 1852 in Reus, Spain.
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Wawel Cathedral, Krakow Poland.
Style agnostic...
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Happy birthday, Jules-Hardouin Mansart.
April 16, 1646 in Paris, France.
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Chapel in the Wood at Strawberry Hill House, Twickenham UK.
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Happy birthday, Hector Lefuel.
November 14, 1810 in Versailles, France.
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