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Robert Proctor
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Architectural historian of the twentieth century.

Robert Neel Proctor is an American historian of science and Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University, where he is also Professor by courtesy of Pulmonary Medicine. While a professor of the history of science at Pennsylvania State University in 1999, he became the first historian to testify against the tobacco industry. .. more

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My book is finally published! Percy Thomas: Modern Architecture as a National Service. www.uwp.co.uk/book/percy-t...
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It always seems amazing to me that tomatoes can have such substance and flavour there, but not here. I don't think it's just climate, I think we've also bred out the flesh in favour of acidic water.

I searched for 'expressionist bierhalle' and nothing relevant came up. When is the deadline?

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Georgian Bath? How about Brutalist Bath!

Sign the petition to save the fabulous little Church of the Good Shepherd in Batheaston (1966-67) from demolition, and allow the local community to buy it instead.

✍🏼 c.org/PdMGmFFhqZ

He has to say this kind of thing because Greens came second in his (our) constituency and are breathing down his neck.

Happy to, send me an email.

If this were in Britain it would have been listed 15 years ago because there's so little as good as that. Presumably in Cologne it seemed too ordinary.

One of the best summaries of *that moment* I think.

Lutyens's Campion Hall, Oxford. Tinkling bell capitals similar to those at New Delhi, and a busy proliferation of horizontal lines.

The young people seem to find it very boring and pointless, reassuringly.

I've long wondered why sat navs/Google maps have not been forced to tell the police when their owners exceed the speed limit.

Delighted that the second review of my book on Percy Thomas is in Welsh, a comprehensive account over 3 pages by conservation architect Alwyn Harding Jones in 'Barn'. barn.cymru/en_gb/adeila...
Adeiladu cenedl: gwaddol Percy Thomas – Barn
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Joyfully distracted at work by finding a black redstart on my building for the second time in a fortnight.

Always find it so rude that profit making companies want me to do some work for them for nothing. I'll answer surveys when they pay me for it.

Bookmarking! And some of the other articles, great to know about it.

Does it ever not?

Ask, purely because it's in the Assembly Rooms, if you don't mind the overpriced average chain food.

Found a model paragraph from a past essay to demonstrate good paragraph structure, then compare with a paragraph from Copilot, and well there is no comparison at all.

Preparing a session on essay writing, testing things on AI to show students what it can't do, and wow, it is still as bad as it was a couple of years ago, isn't it? It reads like GCSE essays.

Mostly refuse to sign off buildings for listing, although even that is more not doing something than doing it.

I'm half joking, more likely it would be an all staff email insisting on not printing anything because there's no money left.

I would get an angry email from the HoD if I did that purely because the printing cost would be flagged.

DOI doesn't work for some reason, sorry, look it up on your library catalogue if you care.

From M. Levy Bencostta, 'History and Modern Architecture: Prellerhaus, the Bauhaus Residential Colleges in Dessau (1926-1932)', Espacio, tiempo y educación, 10/1, pp. 51–75 (doi.org/10.14516/ete...).
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Reading about how Mies van der Rohe re-enrolled all Bauhaus students in 1930 so he could expel those with communist allegiances, and turned the student residence building into classrooms so they couldn't live together and coordinate on site. Lovely chap.

Amazing, but I prefer it with books!

What they don't seem to realise is just how much A level students know, and how decisive they are about liking very specific things in their curriculum. If you can't say what is in the degree at an open day, you don't deserve them.

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.