Robert Proctor

I have to make parallel word documents of lists of things I have to do in order of deadlines and try to remember to look at them all from time to time.

Tax golf?

Do it.

... And 2021 Mass Housing Survey at datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283....

... Docomomo International Mass Housing Archive is at datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283... ...

I asked Miles and he said it had been hit by bot crawlers so was taken down, but it is being modified for reinstatement soon. In the meantime...

I presume it doesn't actually say that in the white paper ... does it?! As is typical for the commons it's like trying to understand a university through its website. Better just to read the document.

This is what sixth formers should be asking at their interviews. Will we have to go to lectures by dodgy neo-fascist bloggers?

U values / climate crisis.

Two soaring fluted piers of black marble looking vertically up to a coffered ceiling with decoration picked out in gold and green and a round spiky light shade.

Finishing touches under way for my talk on Percy Thomas's interwar modern classicism at the Lutyens Trust conference on 1 November. #20s30s www.lutyenstrust.org.uk/portfolio-it...

I have a childhood memory from Tinside and it isn't a particularly good one.

This is very good, can they also reinstate mine, since they lost it in a cyber attack?

A black and white portrait photograph of Sir Edwin Cooper as a bald old man with round glasses.

I keep thinking there should be a biography of the prominent C20 classical architect everyone always ignores, Sir Edwin Cooper, but there's no way I'm going to write it myself. Anyone want to do it for a PhD, get in touch?

I did some research on Percy Thomas's public baths in Wigan c. 1960, and the public enthusiasm was huge, partly because so many people had no other way to wash in warm water - the baths were literally baths, alongside a swimming pool.

It's very difficult to get students to appreciate this when teaching modern architecture, but it is surely absolutely fundamental to understanding the appeal of modernism.

I read an article about Glasgow architecture from around 1900 that said there was no point using different coloured stones for decorative effect because it would all go the same black within a couple of years.

The interior of a large brutalist concrete church. The walls are clad over the alter with wavy panels of wood, and the ceiling is a zigzag with light streaming in through the glass. The cork flooring is picking up the sunlight, as are the long pine benches.

I’ve lots of photos to sort from today but here are a few to be going on with.

Broadmead Baptist Church, Bristol
(Ronald H Sims, 1968)

Access arranged by @themodernist.bsky.social

I discovered Unzoomed and got Kyoto in one.

Le Corbusier: let us return to the platonic volumes, cubes, cylinders, what have you

Asplund: [builds Stockholm Public Library]

Le Corbusier: not like that

Maybe she should have done a degree that involved critical thought. Many to choose from but one might suggest, say, English Literature or Anthropology, for instance.

From the I newspaper: "A 2020 analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies showed that around 30 per cent of both men and women see 'negative total returns' from going to university, and one in five would be financially better off if they skipped higher education".

Amazing facts. It's almost as if people like education for reasons other than cash. Apparently this is bad?

Part of the Circus, Bath, 18th century curved terrace of houses with classical orders, a shadow grazing it from the right, an old street lamp in the foreground.

Bath architecture + October sunshine = 💥

Recommend.

Had a fling in New York in the seventies.

Starting a campaign to bring back Ecole des Beaux-Arts architectural drawing styles. drawingmatter.org/the-beaux-ar...

It's actually a rook though, isn't it?

Inane and over-polite copilot email reply draft prompted by 'no thanks, it's not my specialism'.

I mean look, this is marvellous!

No no, I tried it once and it was far more polite than the real me would ever have been, it absolutely loves the small talk.

I hear you can just get some AI to do that now.

It's not even economic expediency at any significant level, is it, just a knee-jerk political signal, 'developers, do your worst'.