Did some research this week. I think I'm on to something. Keeping it quiet, though, you never know who's listening.
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Did some research this week. I think I'm on to something. Keeping it quiet, though, you never know who's listening.
"excavated"
Grandad's having one of his ill-informed whinges again is he? Must be time for his cocoa.
There are some extra fancy ones in Bristol. www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...
Not that I remember but in those days such things as chunky pine fittings, teak furniture, etc. just seemed an everyday backdrop. Saw a lot of teak tables with brass details being removed from Whitfield's Glasgow library a decade later.
Fake newspaper column headline purporting to be by Allister Heath in the Telegraph saying 'How the Marxist infiltration of Nikolaus Pevsner's Buildings of England poisoned the minds of the young'.
Simon Bradley's fault. (Sorry, I'll stop now).
Fake newspaper column headline purporting to have been written by Allister Heath of the Telegraph saying 'We are sleepwalking into a totalitarian nightmare disguised as eighteenth-century landscape gardens'.
Is that bad?
And the Tange style library. Spent many good days in there.
Here's one. There were surely more. www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/... (better source).
Expecting any rational, constructive policy at a time of such dire and irresponsible public discourse is probably doomed.
Universities should collaborate to help one go through a court case but you know they won't.
Latest thing on LinkedIn seems to be people using AI to write criticisms of other people using AI.
Also, "the palace" potentially includes the candidate.
Also (if you don't already know it this will blow your mind) cf my former colleague Mark Wilson Jones's theory that the Pantheon switched in short columns because the big ones were lost in a shipwreck, hence the weird shadow pediment.
Ancient Roman triumphal arch at Aosta, Italy, with Corinthian order under a Doric entablature. Quite wrong.
I don't know, I've seen some cranky Roman rule-breaking, there's probably classical precedent if you look for it.
One of my favourite paintings but it's actually in Plymouth. www.theboxplymouth.com/blog/press-r...
Amazing what you can get away with in a World Heritage Site.
Apart from the fact that yes, AI doesn't currently work all that well for this purpose, how do you think humanities assessment could test thinking process without an end product? (And sadly but necessarily, at large scale with few staff). This is the q we're all asking.
Reading a book from 2013 with useful archive references, except the archive changed all the numbers in 2016 so I can't find them any more.
The point of Bsky is it has no algorithm. (Except for the Discover feed, which I don't think is customised to stoke narcissism in the same way as elsewhere).
Recently been on one where every single time I clicked on an entry to look at the details (even in a new tab), the overall search results go awry and I have to do the search again.
Eeew.
Interior of semicircular St Patrick's church, Coventry, with big wedges of timber-clad roof forming slices of clerestory between them, a stained glass panel of the crucifix over the altar lit from behind, random coloured panels of green, orange, red and white forming the walls between internal butresses.
St Mary, Dunstable, interior of round church with altar on one side, brick piers in pairs forming side chapels, stained glass slots between them, a clerestory of yellow glass, over which hangs a big round ceiling in teal and white stripes with sculptural zig-zag pattern.
St Michael, Wolverhampton, exterior, a round brown brick church with slot windows between buttress-like piers, lead-roofed wedges clustered around the a small spike on the roof, and a separate tower made of two parallel brick piers.
Interior of St Michael's church, Wolverhampton, looking up to circular drum bathed in yellow light, in a sculptural ceiling of diamond-shapes, apparently floating as light enters around the edges from hidden sources above, supported over brick panel walls with slot windows of stained glass; on axis there's a crucifix in front of an abstract ceramic panel.
Sad to hear recently of architect Desmond Williams's passing. Fond memories of exploring his dramatic 1960s churches. Now preparing some photos for the Manchester Modernist Society. Obituary by his son here: www.ribaj.com/intelligence...
A beautiful street of historic buildings including lime-washed cottages with a Victorian church tower at the end.
A handsome gabled historic house, 17th century with windows of various later periods, covered in a peach-coloured lime-wash.
An impressive turreted Tudor mansion in the distance framed by a Georgian arched gateway.
A rubble stone wall of ruin with architectural elements inset into it including a blocked up traceried window.
Corsham, Wilts. A fine town. Speaks for itself, really.
Trawling a well-organised archive catalogue to draw up a list for a future visit is a bittersweet pleasure. So many tantalising documents, so little time.
As Channel 4 posh house show presenters?
A modernist church with big peaked roof and concrete window made of vertical slots, with an old-fashioned white-rendered church tower with onion dome stuck on one corner.
Also, quite enjoyed this bizarre Frankenstein church in Hinterzarten.
Detail of a brutalist concrete building with random windows, strange flanges cantilevered out over dark slots on a projecting corner, an overall texture of vertical corrugations.
Loved that building, visiting 2 years ago.
You could just not and see if anyone checks. What are the chances anyone cares enough?
Yeah but if you had an AHRC grant you still have to input all your data in full knowledge that they will shortly delete it.