Antonio Pacheco
@pantonio.bsky.social
Doctoral Candidate at MIT Architecture, researching spatial practices of US government entities; New Deal, Art Deco, Water, and Sewage | he / him
https://dirt.fyi/article/2024/03/art-deco-ourselves
https://dirt.fyi/article/2024/03/art-deco-ourselves
I, for one, love the totally surreal Sotheby’s Breuer - the curation is wild, refreshing, nauseating; the crowds, a who’s who’s of the most annoying people imaginable (myself included), all trying to make sense of works of art in a work of art; a beautiful, heaving mess of cognitive dissonance.
November 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I, for one, love the totally surreal Sotheby’s Breuer - the curation is wild, refreshing, nauseating; the crowds, a who’s who’s of the most annoying people imaginable (myself included), all trying to make sense of works of art in a work of art; a beautiful, heaving mess of cognitive dissonance.
Architecture is upstream from culture
November 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Architecture is upstream from culture
Editing these dissertation chapters like
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Editing these dissertation chapters like
Tapping the sign
It’s worth remembering that the Gilded Age didn’t end with the Great Depression, but with the Progressive Era.
November 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Tapping the sign
It’s worth remembering that the Gilded Age didn’t end with the Great Depression, but with the Progressive Era.
April 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
It’s worth remembering that the Gilded Age didn’t end with the Great Depression, but with the Progressive Era.
Cherry trees at Trump Tower, resplendent in their incandescent bloom.
April 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Cherry trees at Trump Tower, resplendent in their incandescent bloom.
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Tim Walz: "It's not a 'woke policy' to provide food for children to get breakfast and lunch, and we get better outcomes from that. They defined things on their terms that weren't true ... we got timid."
April 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Tim Walz: "It's not a 'woke policy' to provide food for children to get breakfast and lunch, and we get better outcomes from that. They defined things on their terms that weren't true ... we got timid."
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The National Humanities Alliance is collecting information on canceled NEH grants to share with congressional leaders. This is legit fact finding in support of competent lobbying. If you've had your grant canceled, do let them know.
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Notify NHA about grant terminations!
We are collecting information about current grants that have been canceled since March 31st, 2025.
If you are looking to share a story about the impact of NEH funding on your work please use this for...
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April 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The National Humanities Alliance is collecting information on canceled NEH grants to share with congressional leaders. This is legit fact finding in support of competent lobbying. If you've had your grant canceled, do let them know.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Yes, sewage treatment plants should be temples.
‘Cathedral of crap’: is this the world’s most beautiful sewage treatment plant?
Its inspiration was Sydney Opera House and its paper-thin louvre windows are reminiscent of a luxury ocean-liner. More importantly, the people of Arklow in Ireland can finally go swimming without fear...
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Yes, sewage treatment plants should be temples.
Trump has been and continues to be extremely Hooverite in his approach and (more importantly) in terms of how history will view his presidencies - praying for us all.
April 3, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Trump has been and continues to be extremely Hooverite in his approach and (more importantly) in terms of how history will view his presidencies - praying for us all.
This is great, super insightful
The NYU-Marron report on electrification is out: It pairs electrification and other components to develop a high-throughput infrastructure design framework, which slashes time off of existing commuter and inter-city passenger rail services. We call it Momentum -- transitcosts.com/wp-content/u...
April 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
This is great, super insightful
Interior view of Thomas U. Walter’s cast iron dome at the US Capitol!
Of particular interest these days - The Capitol Rotunda is topped by Constantino Brumidi’s fresco, The Apotheosis of George Washington showing GW draped in purple robes exalted in heaven.
Of particular interest these days - The Capitol Rotunda is topped by Constantino Brumidi’s fresco, The Apotheosis of George Washington showing GW draped in purple robes exalted in heaven.
March 31, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Interior view of Thomas U. Walter’s cast iron dome at the US Capitol!
Of particular interest these days - The Capitol Rotunda is topped by Constantino Brumidi’s fresco, The Apotheosis of George Washington showing GW draped in purple robes exalted in heaven.
Of particular interest these days - The Capitol Rotunda is topped by Constantino Brumidi’s fresco, The Apotheosis of George Washington showing GW draped in purple robes exalted in heaven.
Finally seeing Venturi Scott Brown’s Ghost Structures at Franklin Court in the Independence National Historical Park in person.
Beautifully simple painted steel sections used to draw the outline of Benjamin Franklin’s Philadelphia home.
Beautifully simple painted steel sections used to draw the outline of Benjamin Franklin’s Philadelphia home.
March 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Finally seeing Venturi Scott Brown’s Ghost Structures at Franklin Court in the Independence National Historical Park in person.
Beautifully simple painted steel sections used to draw the outline of Benjamin Franklin’s Philadelphia home.
Beautifully simple painted steel sections used to draw the outline of Benjamin Franklin’s Philadelphia home.
Who made this ????
March 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Who made this ????
Extremely chuffed to work on a presentation for Women’s History Month centered on the work of Frances Perkins that I will get to deliver to my kid’s 1st grade class.
March 21, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Extremely chuffed to work on a presentation for Women’s History Month centered on the work of Frances Perkins that I will get to deliver to my kid’s 1st grade class.
Men building sewers in shirtsleeves
Taken from New York Public Library’s digital archives of Public Works Administration projects.
Taken from New York Public Library’s digital archives of Public Works Administration projects.
March 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Men building sewers in shirtsleeves
Taken from New York Public Library’s digital archives of Public Works Administration projects.
Taken from New York Public Library’s digital archives of Public Works Administration projects.
Reposted by Antonio Pacheco
Exhibition of the #NewDeal #photography of the great Arthur Rothstein.
March 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Exhibition of the #NewDeal #photography of the great Arthur Rothstein.
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New City's Ted C. Fishman has a fascinating talk with Alexander Eisenschmidt about his new book, Félix Candela from Mexico City to Chicago: The Rise and Fall of Experimentation in Concrete, which documents the Spanish/Mexican architect's time spent at UIC.
design.newcity.com/2025/03/14/t...
design.newcity.com/2025/03/14/t...
Rediscovering Architect Félix Candela’s Years in Chicago
Félix Candela, the exiled Spaniard whose long, innovative career building improbably curvy, thin-shelled concrete buildings in Mexico and elsewhere put him in the pantheon of the twentieth century’s m...
design.newcity.com
March 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
New City's Ted C. Fishman has a fascinating talk with Alexander Eisenschmidt about his new book, Félix Candela from Mexico City to Chicago: The Rise and Fall of Experimentation in Concrete, which documents the Spanish/Mexican architect's time spent at UIC.
design.newcity.com/2025/03/14/t...
design.newcity.com/2025/03/14/t...
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This book on the mid-C20 planning and building of Manchester by Richard Brook just came in to my office. Looks outstanding. @c20society.bsky.social @sahgb.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
This book on the mid-C20 planning and building of Manchester by Richard Brook just came in to my office. Looks outstanding. @c20society.bsky.social @sahgb.bsky.social
Apropos to recent news, thinking back to 2017 when the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s annual steel design competition asked architecture students to design a “humanitarian detention center” …
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thefunambulist.net/editorials/w...
When the ACSA and the Steel Lobby Invite You to Design a “Humanitarian Detention Center”
Addendum: following the pressure on ACSA to cancel the competition mentioned below, they were forced to cancel it a few days after this article was written. Léopold Lambert – Lisbon on October 26…
thefunambulist.net
March 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Apropos to recent news, thinking back to 2017 when the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s annual steel design competition asked architecture students to design a “humanitarian detention center” …
thefunambulist.net/editorials/w...
thefunambulist.net/editorials/w...