Robert the Architect
@robertoalto.bsky.social
Author of Designing Pan-America: U.S. Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere, founder of the On the Brinck Book Award, founding editor of AULA: Architecture & Urbanism in Las Américas journal, Historian, Dean, Ford Fellow (UC Berkeley, MIT)
This is what we call a clear diagram house.
March 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
This is what we call a clear diagram house.
February 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Rainbow Ridge, by Anthony Machuca. #Art #AcademicSky
February 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Rainbow Ridge, by Anthony Machuca. #Art #AcademicSky
My favorite spot to stay at when I return to my old college town. The Berkeley City Club Pool, 1929, by Julia Morgan. Originally a social club and residence for women. Photo: Chronicle Books #Architecture #AcademicSky
January 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
My favorite spot to stay at when I return to my old college town. The Berkeley City Club Pool, 1929, by Julia Morgan. Originally a social club and residence for women. Photo: Chronicle Books #Architecture #AcademicSky
January 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Marion Dorn designed a French deco rug (circa 1930) that measured 597 x 348 cm. She studied at the Bauhaus. #Art #Architecture #AcademicSky
January 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Marion Dorn designed a French deco rug (circa 1930) that measured 597 x 348 cm. She studied at the Bauhaus. #Art #Architecture #AcademicSky
Love this! The oldest Art Nouveau apartment building in Helsinki, Finland. #Architecture #Art #AcademicSky
January 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Love this! The oldest Art Nouveau apartment building in Helsinki, Finland. #Architecture #Art #AcademicSky
January 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Shirakawa Village uses an automatic sprinkler system to protect its historic thatched-roof houses. When a fire is detected, 60 concealed sprinklers emerge and release high-pressure water to extinguish the flames. This is how they preserve traditional architecture. #Architecture #AcademicSky
January 18, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Shirakawa Village uses an automatic sprinkler system to protect its historic thatched-roof houses. When a fire is detected, 60 concealed sprinklers emerge and release high-pressure water to extinguish the flames. This is how they preserve traditional architecture. #Architecture #AcademicSky
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Exclusive: Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes
More good news for those looking to exit Meta's social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a
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January 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Let's Gooo!
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The Palau de la Música Catalana, in Barcelona, Lluis Domenech i Montaner. I enjoyed a few concerts under this magical ceiling. I worked with the architect’s grandson in 1988.
January 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The Palau de la Música Catalana, in Barcelona, Lluis Domenech i Montaner. I enjoyed a few concerts under this magical ceiling. I worked with the architect’s grandson in 1988.
Very sad to see the Keeler House perish in the California fires. Designed in 1991 by Ray Kappe, founder of SCI-Arc.
January 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Very sad to see the Keeler House perish in the California fires. Designed in 1991 by Ray Kappe, founder of SCI-Arc.
January 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
"'Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth' takes all that Edward Tufte knows into a yet deeper level of wisdom and wider realm of inquiry. A completely delicious work." Stewart Brand, creator of the Whole Earth Catalog #Architecture #AcademicSky #Art
January 4, 2025 at 3:47 AM
"'Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth' takes all that Edward Tufte knows into a yet deeper level of wisdom and wider realm of inquiry. A completely delicious work." Stewart Brand, creator of the Whole Earth Catalog #Architecture #AcademicSky #Art
Happy New Year!
January 1, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Happy New Year!
Thank you for all your Habitat for Humanity service, Mr President! RIP Jimmy Carter.
January 1, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Thank you for all your Habitat for Humanity service, Mr President! RIP Jimmy Carter.
Eero Saarinen's TWA Flight Center in New York. Photo by Ezra Stoller, circa 1962. #Architecture #Art #Discover
December 30, 2024 at 3:04 AM
Eero Saarinen's TWA Flight Center in New York. Photo by Ezra Stoller, circa 1962. #Architecture #Art #Discover
Blue, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1927, Oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art, New York #Art #Discover #AcademicSky
December 30, 2024 at 1:33 AM
Blue, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1927, Oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art, New York #Art #Discover #AcademicSky
I was greatly inspired by Charles Gwathmey’s Cooper Residence (1967), Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
#Architecture #Art #Discover
#Architecture #Art #Discover
December 28, 2024 at 2:20 AM
I was greatly inspired by Charles Gwathmey’s Cooper Residence (1967), Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
#Architecture #Art #Discover
#Architecture #Art #Discover
Architectural portrait by Alan Spazzali, from his series "Prisma," All Rights Reserved.
December 27, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Architectural portrait by Alan Spazzali, from his series "Prisma," All Rights Reserved.
Looking forward to seeing The Brutalist. #Architecture #Film
The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody, is an alluring bricolage of 20th-century, avant-garde architects and architecture
In The Brutalist is the “brutalist” the titular Hungarian-born Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor László Tóth (Adrien Brody)? Or perhaps is it his wealthy and capricious patron, Harrison Lee Van ...
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December 23, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Looking forward to seeing The Brutalist. #Architecture #Film
Architectural portrait by Alan Spazzali, from his series "Prisma," All Rights Reserved.
December 22, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Architectural portrait by Alan Spazzali, from his series "Prisma," All Rights Reserved.
Ruins of the Antigua Catedral De Antigua in Guatemala, taken by my buddy Perry Andrews. #Architecture #Art #AcademicSky
December 22, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Ruins of the Antigua Catedral De Antigua in Guatemala, taken by my buddy Perry Andrews. #Architecture #Art #AcademicSky
December 21, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Fundacio Antoni Tapies. I got to work on this adaptive reuse building in Barcelona, Spain under Lluis Domench i Girbau and Roser Amado i Cerco.Russian Constructivism meets Modernisme. #Architecture #Art
December 21, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Fundacio Antoni Tapies. I got to work on this adaptive reuse building in Barcelona, Spain under Lluis Domench i Girbau and Roser Amado i Cerco.Russian Constructivism meets Modernisme. #Architecture #Art