rust belt roadtrip (in rome)

coastal corbusier

adolfo de pertis, church of the rosary, capo di sorrento, it (1971-72)

Love the Catholic Social Teaching window at St. John’s in Utica, featuring Pope Leo XIII holding Rerum Novarum, which talks about the right of workers to form unions.

At the the bottom are workers of various kinds and in the middle are union members and management reaching an accord.

incredible! thanks

eclipse in a concrete sky

church of s. bernardo alle termi, rome, it (1598-1600)

rome lately

metro systems built from scratch in italy since 1990: naples, turin, brescia, catania

a church sculpted from light

angelo mangiarotti and bruno morassutti, n.s. della misericordia, milan, it (1956-57)

losing my marbles in rome

borromini go brrr

the nowa huta of rome—quartiere don bosco

croatian mosaics in rome

jozo kljaković, pontifical croatian college mosaics, rome, it (ca. 1940s)

concrete sanctuary

luigi figini e gino pollini, ss. giovanni e paolo, milan, it (1964-68)

blue buildings of milan

ceilings of the villa d’este

st. joseph covering the world in steel

frank vittor, homestead, pa (1966)

the masterpieces of ivan meštrović in rome

the masterpieces of ivan meštrović in rome

vestiges of belle époque milan

vestiges of belle époque milan

the concrete castle

bbpr, torre velasca, milan, it (1955-57)

concrete curves

mariarosa zibetti ribaldone, s. paolo apostolo, gallarate, it (1968-73)

Color photo of part of a one story terra cotta clad building, taken from across the street. Between green tiles arranged in a rather ingenious basketweave design is a grid of white and orange tiles interspersed with small, horizontal bands of gold. Centered in this grid is a spectacular Art Deco foliate design in green, blue, fuchsia and orange. Two storefronts with large reflective windows sit underneath, one with a large sign reading PERFECT HAIR, the other too faded to read.

Made the pilgrimage to see Z Erol Smith’s polychrome pièce de résistance, one of Chicago terra cotta nerdom’s most revered sites

the san carlo alle quattro fontane of modernism

brutalist necropolis

luigi ciapparella, new cemetery, busto arsizio, it (1975)

completely lost in these cosmati floors

domes lost to the mine fire

centralia's orthodox church—demolished in 1986

beautiful area—was there for a day in the fall

⛏️ 👩 New DePOT blog: Monika Glosowitz shares the stories of women in Silesian mining families

ukrainian churches in the rust belt

When I was a kid, I loved to spend hours looking at maps and atlases, such as the Italian Touring Club 1:200.000 Road Atlas, and I was always mesmerized by the shape of mountain roads and railways, particularly the Sardinian narrow gauge network and its jagged shape.