Brian Goldstein
@bgoldst.bsky.social
Urban & architectural historian at Swarthmore. Writing: If Architecture Were for People: The Life and Work of J. Max Bond Jr. Wrote: The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle Over Harlem. Architecture & race, cities, baseball, jazz.
This actually isn't difficult: the Democratic Party should have an Affordability, Opposing Authoritarianism, and Protecting Democracy vision. And the candidates who pursue that will look different in different regions of the country, as would be expected.
November 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This actually isn't difficult: the Democratic Party should have an Affordability, Opposing Authoritarianism, and Protecting Democracy vision. And the candidates who pursue that will look different in different regions of the country, as would be expected.
I beg your pardon
November 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I beg your pardon
If you're from the Cincinnati area, as I am, you know this, the new 1st, is a totally demonic congressional district. It has to look like backwards Massachusetts for there to be enough exurban/rural voters to outweigh a skinny cut through the city.
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
If you're from the Cincinnati area, as I am, you know this, the new 1st, is a totally demonic congressional district. It has to look like backwards Massachusetts for there to be enough exurban/rural voters to outweigh a skinny cut through the city.
Also, this is vicious
October 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Also, this is vicious
Okay, maybe I have a liiiiiiiiiiittle tolerance for certain uses of AI
October 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Okay, maybe I have a liiiiiiiiiiittle tolerance for certain uses of AI
Yes this is pretty low on my list of worries. But don't you touch
October 30, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Yes this is pretty low on my list of worries. But don't you touch
I've got to get a job as a college football coach. Do your job badly and they pay you $54m just to go away!
October 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I've got to get a job as a college football coach. Do your job badly and they pay you $54m just to go away!
Vigilance is crucial but this passage is incorrect. The Central Office Fine Arts staff at GSA *was not* laid off and they have been working hard to keep things from falling to pieces with the collection, in general. I'm sure they are up against a lot in all of these cases but surely trying here too.
October 26, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Vigilance is crucial but this passage is incorrect. The Central Office Fine Arts staff at GSA *was not* laid off and they have been working hard to keep things from falling to pieces with the collection, in general. I'm sure they are up against a lot in all of these cases but surely trying here too.
Uh, I mean look at Allegany and Garrett Counties on the 2024 election map (two farthest left). Not sure this is achieving what Trump hopes.
October 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Uh, I mean look at Allegany and Garrett Counties on the 2024 election map (two farthest left). Not sure this is achieving what Trump hopes.
Who would've thought the guy that looks like a cross between the co-worker who tells inappropriate jokes and a televangelist would ever
October 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Who would've thought the guy that looks like a cross between the co-worker who tells inappropriate jokes and a televangelist would ever
We architecture people have our architectural complaints about this, of course, but it occurs to me how much the most offensive part is the violation of the principle that this is the public’s house and the elected leader gets to live in it for 4 years at the will of the public and must care for it.
October 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
We architecture people have our architectural complaints about this, of course, but it occurs to me how much the most offensive part is the violation of the principle that this is the public’s house and the elected leader gets to live in it for 4 years at the will of the public and must care for it.
Almost seems too coincidental that Trump's payout demand from the Justice Department is about the same amount as the ballroom cost. The ballroom that he claimed he would help pay for himself.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Almost seems too coincidental that Trump's payout demand from the Justice Department is about the same amount as the ballroom cost. The ballroom that he claimed he would help pay for himself.
Did they look like this?
October 22, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Did they look like this?
Kudos to ENR though, for the best and clearest explanation of the regulatory authority involved (and not involved) in a project like this at the White House. www.enr.com/articles/616...
October 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Kudos to ENR though, for the best and clearest explanation of the regulatory authority involved (and not involved) in a project like this at the White House. www.enr.com/articles/616...
The classicists are starting to realize that the ballroom is going to be a very bad, clumsy, overscaled building, columns or not. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/a...
October 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The classicists are starting to realize that the ballroom is going to be a very bad, clumsy, overscaled building, columns or not. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/a...
Oh, the irony. The robot destroys itself.
October 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Oh, the irony. The robot destroys itself.
This is who we're dealing with, folks.
October 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This is who we're dealing with, folks.
Kind of hilarious, frankly, that this was the group that had to listen to a tirade about being physically fit and you can see in their faces how much they enjoyed the experience.
September 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Kind of hilarious, frankly, that this was the group that had to listen to a tirade about being physically fit and you can see in their faces how much they enjoyed the experience.
It's right to worry about the editing and censorship of history in museums and national parks, but this kind of historical erasure has the potential to do even more damage:
September 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
It's right to worry about the editing and censorship of history in museums and national parks, but this kind of historical erasure has the potential to do even more damage:
Melania at age 14 pbs.twimg.com/media/D9OMmg...
September 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Melania at age 14 pbs.twimg.com/media/D9OMmg...
What the f are we doing
September 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
What the f are we doing
It's of a piece with this administration, but oh so telling that Shubow always puts this extraordinarily top-down, hand-on-scale intervention in terms of popular democracy. So democratic that we will force any federal buildings to be designed by a very small group of our friends. wapo.st/45HrJxy
August 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It's of a piece with this administration, but oh so telling that Shubow always puts this extraordinarily top-down, hand-on-scale intervention in terms of popular democracy. So democratic that we will force any federal buildings to be designed by a very small group of our friends. wapo.st/45HrJxy
Washington, DC IN TOTAL CHAOS!!!!!
August 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Washington, DC IN TOTAL CHAOS!!!!!