@mssrinivas.bsky.social
Architectural historian / PhD student at Harvard GSD / imperialism, nationalism, and memory / all photos mine
Haha love this
11.05.2025 07:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives
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Haven't watched it yet but found this a few days ago: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...
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Some views of the Christian Science Plaza in Boston (1-3). The colonnade and its reflecting pool (1968-72), designed by Araldo Cossutta of I.M. Pei & Associates, owe much to Corbusier's Palace of Assembly (1951-62) in Chandigarh (4).
Hoping to get back for better photos sometime.
Ooh where is this?
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A view from the Vienna Secession at MoMA
Hanging lamp (1904) and "Sitzmachine" chair (c.1905) by Joseph Hoffman; poster for Kunstschau Wien (1908) by Berthold Löffler
One of the great joys of these cemeteries is the exploration of forms they seem to afford. Spread over 148 acres, this particular cemetery is great for Art-Deco spotting!
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Designed in 1835, the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn is one of the earliest of the garden cemeteries characteristic of East Coast cities. It takes its inspiration from Mt Auburn Cemetery near Boston, and in turn is said to have inspired competitions for both Central Park and Prospect Park in NYC
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The High Line today was like a brief but spectacular vision of what a green, car-free city might look like
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Looking back to a sunnier day in Boston
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A Hancock in the wild
Letter from the president to a Hector McNeil, 1777.
Elevation of the 1950s extension to the National Museum in Edinburgh. Faced in stone, with vertical bands and textured panels, plus a tapering doorway set asymmetrically and regular lozenge-like windows.
Edinburgh looking fab today. Here's the extension to what's now the National Museum, by Stewart Sim. Textured panels, 'baroque' windows, tapered door. Thought 'fussy' by the Buildings of Scotland, this 'Festival' style was quickly unfashionable (and was often pitted against Brutalism) but I like it.
14.11.2024 16:52 — 👍 28 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0Used to pass by this building nearly everyday and there's certainly something about it
21.11.2024 02:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great work, would love to be added!
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Recently laid my hands on a beautiful copy of the first French transl of Alberti from Paris, 1553.
While the woodcut illustrations closely resemble those of the 1546 Italian edition, it's interesting that they consistently deviate to exaggerate age.
Hi everyone! I am an architectural historian working on questions around the British Empire and memory, and dabbling in all sorts of other areas. Excited to be here!
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