Alexander Luckmann
@aluckmann.bsky.social
PhD candidate, German & US modern architecture @ UCSB | religion, preservation, environment | he/him views mine
With jazz and conversation
From the foot of Mount Belzoni
With jazz and conversation
From the foot of Mount Belzoni
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Alexander Luckmann
@aluckmann.bsky.social
· Mar 11
Time to bring a twitter series to Bluesky: Given the incredible number of 20th-century churches in Northrhine-Westphalia (the topic of my dissertation), I’m going post one or two every day. None of these images are mine, they're all credited in the alt text, and I'll take any down if asked
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#208: Stefan Leuer, St. Mary the Queen, Bonn-Vilich (1961-62)
February 10, 2026 at 9:48 PM
#208: Stefan Leuer, St. Mary the Queen, Bonn-Vilich (1961-62)
#208: Stefan Leuer, St. Mary the Queen, Bonn-Vilich (1961-62)
February 10, 2026 at 9:48 PM
#208: Stefan Leuer, St. Mary the Queen, Bonn-Vilich (1961-62)
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#207: Hans Schilling, Peace of Christ, Bonn-Heiderhof (1978)
February 9, 2026 at 4:05 PM
#207: Hans Schilling, Peace of Christ, Bonn-Heiderhof (1978)
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Der AfD-Programmentwurf für Sachsen-Anhalt hat einen Abschnitt »Schöner bauen!«, der ein rigides traditionalistisches Architekturverständnis einfordert. Interessant ist, dass dort genau zwei Beispiele für »außerordentlich hässliche« öffentliche Gebäude genannt werden:
February 10, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Der AfD-Programmentwurf für Sachsen-Anhalt hat einen Abschnitt »Schöner bauen!«, der ein rigides traditionalistisches Architekturverständnis einfordert. Interessant ist, dass dort genau zwei Beispiele für »außerordentlich hässliche« öffentliche Gebäude genannt werden:
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{extremely octogenarian democrat senator voice} We continue to believe in a two-state solution
Palestinians say new Israeli measures in West Bank amount to de facto annexation
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced the moves that would make it easier for Jewish settlers to take over Palestinian land. "We will continue to kill the idea of a Palestinian state," he said
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced the moves that would make it easier for Jewish settlers to take over Palestinian land. "We will continue to kill the idea of a Palestinian state," he said
West Bank: Palestinians say new Israeli steps amount to de facto annexation
The measures aim to increase Israeli control over the occupied West Bank in terms of property law, planning, licensing and enforcement.
www.bbc.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:23 AM
{extremely octogenarian democrat senator voice} We continue to believe in a two-state solution
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i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:56 AM
i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.
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This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 10, 2026 at 3:18 AM
This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
They don’t want you to know who Isabel Oakeshott is
February 10, 2026 at 7:29 AM
They don’t want you to know who Isabel Oakeshott is
me neither, I just looked her up
February 10, 2026 at 7:28 AM
me neither, I just looked her up
Really just seems like a “let’s let journalism happen before writing a peer-reviewed book about it” situation
February 10, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Really just seems like a “let’s let journalism happen before writing a peer-reviewed book about it” situation
Isabel Oakeshott once again trying and failing to get into Banger University
February 10, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Isabel Oakeshott once again trying and failing to get into Banger University
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BREAKING NEWS: We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that the Southbank Centre - the Hayward Gallery, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall and skaters undercroft - has finally been Grade II listed by DCMS after a 35 year long campaign.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/southba...
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/southba...
February 10, 2026 at 7:03 AM
BREAKING NEWS: We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that the Southbank Centre - the Hayward Gallery, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall and skaters undercroft - has finally been Grade II listed by DCMS after a 35 year long campaign.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/southba...
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/southba...
something about that email address that just rubs me the wrong way
February 10, 2026 at 7:24 AM
something about that email address that just rubs me the wrong way
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It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.
In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”
“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers
In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.
interc.pt
February 9, 2026 at 6:57 PM
It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.
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Imagine the fever has broken, it's thirty years later, and we get to read a detailed history of how big tech has bamboozled society into believing a mixed bag of disparate technologies should all be sold as "AI" and everyone made to use them all the time at the expense of the planet and our minds.
February 9, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Imagine the fever has broken, it's thirty years later, and we get to read a detailed history of how big tech has bamboozled society into believing a mixed bag of disparate technologies should all be sold as "AI" and everyone made to use them all the time at the expense of the planet and our minds.
Note: Some sources say that Erwin Schiffer designed this church. I think that's incorrect, as the parish website identifies Schilling as the architect, but I haven't done closer research
February 9, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Note: Some sources say that Erwin Schiffer designed this church. I think that's incorrect, as the parish website identifies Schilling as the architect, but I haven't done closer research
#207: Hans Schilling, Peace of Christ, Bonn-Heiderhof (1978)
February 9, 2026 at 4:05 PM
#207: Hans Schilling, Peace of Christ, Bonn-Heiderhof (1978)
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#206: Arthur Hoffmann, St. Viktor, Düsseldorf-Knittkuhl (1981-82)
February 3, 2026 at 4:42 PM
#206: Arthur Hoffmann, St. Viktor, Düsseldorf-Knittkuhl (1981-82)
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Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 10/
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 10/
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Everyone telling you we need to be incrementalist about ICE are lying to you or worse
The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
“We cannot just abolish ICE!”
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
February 8, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Everyone telling you we need to be incrementalist about ICE are lying to you or worse
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Kind of feel like Neil Young on the cover of Weld is the only way to be at the moment
February 8, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Kind of feel like Neil Young on the cover of Weld is the only way to be at the moment