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  1. I've been bingeing this series on #ArchitecturalHistory Once you get past the public schooliness the content is well-informed and generally very interesting.

    #podcasts 🎧

    Your Places or Mine: Hot History: The Great Fire of Northampton 1675

    Episode webpage: ypompod.buzzsprout.com

    Media file: buzzsprout.com/2467470/episode

  2. Untapped Cities examines the curtain wall architectural technique through Richard Roth Jr.'s work on Alexander's department store in NYC and how Alexander's represented innovation in both retail architecture and construction methods during the post-war building boom.
    #NYCArchitecture #CurtainWall #ModernArchitecture #ArchitecturalHistory #RichardRothJr #RetailArchitecture #UntappedCities
    untappedcities.com/curtain-wal

  3. Untapped Cities examines the curtain wall architectural technique through Richard Roth Jr.'s work on Alexander's department store in NYC and how Alexander's represented innovation in both retail architecture and construction methods during the post-war building boom.
    #NYCArchitecture #CurtainWall #ModernArchitecture #ArchitecturalHistory #RichardRothJr #RetailArchitecture #UntappedCities
    untappedcities.com/curtain-wal

  4. The threat of demolition escalates at the Cohen Building in Washington, D.C. New Deal art and architecture in grave danger under current Republican administration
    archpaper.com/2025/12/threat-d
    #ArtHistory #ArchitecturalHistory #NewDeal #Murals #Modernism

  5. @ggwash "Lesson learned: Single-stair multifamily designs enabled narrow buildings that fit on narrow city lots; adding more units means more narrow buildings, instead of making big buildings even wider or taller. Smaller buildings allow more builders to participate in neighborhood evolution." #ArchitecturalHistory #DMV #preservation #SingleStair #BuildingCodeReform #Housing #Architecture

  6. @FotoVorschlag
    #FotoVorschlag 'Wohnformen'
    Der Karl-Marx-Hof in Wien, eines der ersten und wichtigsten Beispiele des Sozialen Wohnungsbaus, eröffnet 1930 im 'Roten Wien'
    #ArchitecturalHistory #archidon

  7. Great piece on the need for architects to say goodbye to their concrete dreams and consider less carbon intensive building materials

    "It just looked like yet another beautiful monument to self-serving denial at best."

    acanaustralia.org/post/concret

    #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #Architecture #archidon #ArchitecturalHistory