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@cyhsal.bsky.social
23 🇨🇳 she/her • 🎓 bsc arch. — 💼 public sector • ✍️ Drawing architecture with architects, mostly Modern • 📩 artofcysun@gmail.com • 📍 London/Essex
📖 I am reading Buildings Texts and came here to learn about architecture, but instead I’ve walked away with yet another man’s boatload of trauma. JC did you kiss the brick before you threw it in my face. Not a single day of peace doing architectural history
November 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
📖 I am reading Buildings Texts and came here to learn about architecture, but instead I’ve walked away with yet another man’s boatload of trauma. JC did you kiss the brick before you threw it in my face. Not a single day of peace doing architectural history
November 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
📹 My all-time favourite Nyrén moment (and what converted me) is this clip of him dancing in his garden. So precious. I think I’m interested in the film less because of architecture and more for how much love Sven B put into it. That’s worth more than anything else. www.facebook.com/share/v/16Yu...
November 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM
📹 My all-time favourite Nyrén moment (and what converted me) is this clip of him dancing in his garden. So precious. I think I’m interested in the film less because of architecture and more for how much love Sven B put into it. That’s worth more than anything else. www.facebook.com/share/v/16Yu...
My diary reminded me that it’s Carl Nyrén’s birthday today, so I guess here’s his official introduction to my repertoire? 🍰🎡
Partly for #huevember2025; #carlnyrén #illustration #architecture
Partly for #huevember2025; #carlnyrén #illustration #architecture
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
My diary reminded me that it’s Carl Nyrén’s birthday today, so I guess here’s his official introduction to my repertoire? 🍰🎡
Partly for #huevember2025; #carlnyrén #illustration #architecture
Partly for #huevember2025; #carlnyrén #illustration #architecture
I go through this book every now and then as I learn about new guys and slowly recognise more names. It’s the book that keeps on giving. Next entry features this banger, paging @jmings.bsky.social:
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I go through this book every now and then as I learn about new guys and slowly recognise more names. It’s the book that keeps on giving. Next entry features this banger, paging @jmings.bsky.social:
📸 Unsurprisingly I do have a picture of the real deal. Building furthest left. Not super exciting IRL, but hey:
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
📸 Unsurprisingly I do have a picture of the real deal. Building furthest left. Not super exciting IRL, but hey:
Venetian travels will resume shortly, but today is Anders Tengbom’s birthday! 🍰 To celebrate this green flag, you are hearing from my favourite details book in my library. Oddly contemporary, this:
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Venetian travels will resume shortly, but today is Anders Tengbom’s birthday! 🍰 To celebrate this green flag, you are hearing from my favourite details book in my library. Oddly contemporary, this:
Nice way to round things off; gelato date with Palladio is recommended regardless of season 🌅🍦
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Nice way to round things off; gelato date with Palladio is recommended regardless of season 🌅🍦
Some more Venetian nights around labyrinthine alleyways and the occasional touch of the divine:
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Some more Venetian nights around labyrinthine alleyways and the occasional touch of the divine:
📖 Sorry Norwegian but here is a bit of brief further reading from my impromptu study session at Bøler library in summer:
November 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
📖 Sorry Norwegian but here is a bit of brief further reading from my impromptu study session at Bøler library in summer:
Fell to my knees in the Biennale gardens. Last time a secular building did this was Klas Anshelm’s Lunds konsthall, of which I’ve posted no photos because none of them sufficiently convey the experience of being in that space.
It bothers me that the letters don’t align. Is the S upside down??
It bothers me that the letters don’t align. Is the S upside down??
November 7, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Fell to my knees in the Biennale gardens. Last time a secular building did this was Klas Anshelm’s Lunds konsthall, of which I’ve posted no photos because none of them sufficiently convey the experience of being in that space.
It bothers me that the letters don’t align. Is the S upside down??
It bothers me that the letters don’t align. Is the S upside down??
The dialogue between Fehn and nature is always exciting. Here the pavilion celebrates the trees, each encounter an energising disruption to the otherwise linear spatial experience. Nature retains its dignified place and man bows deferential. Or so he believes, and we are made to follow suit.
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 AM
The dialogue between Fehn and nature is always exciting. Here the pavilion celebrates the trees, each encounter an energising disruption to the otherwise linear spatial experience. Nature retains its dignified place and man bows deferential. Or so he believes, and we are made to follow suit.
There are obvious Venice buildings to post, but I’m starting in familiar territory with Sverre Fehn’s Nordic Pavilion (1958-62). Briefly I recalled Mies in Berlin, but Mies is vast and relentless. This is intimate, nobly poetic, yet ever so slightly aloof in its delicate light and shadows:
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
There are obvious Venice buildings to post, but I’m starting in familiar territory with Sverre Fehn’s Nordic Pavilion (1958-62). Briefly I recalled Mies in Berlin, but Mies is vast and relentless. This is intimate, nobly poetic, yet ever so slightly aloof in its delicate light and shadows:
The only appropriate travel reading in Venice, I think:
November 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The only appropriate travel reading in Venice, I think:
And the Palladians (+ Inigo Jones):
November 6, 2025 at 6:33 AM
And the Palladians (+ Inigo Jones):
While I am in Venice, can I offer you some ancient Palladio memes from my scribbles. Quattrocento architects were almost an expansion pack when I flirted with Old™️ buildings in Y1. This might come back
#andreapalladio and #sebastianoserlio + #michelangelo; #illustration #architecture
#andreapalladio and #sebastianoserlio + #michelangelo; #illustration #architecture
November 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
While I am in Venice, can I offer you some ancient Palladio memes from my scribbles. Quattrocento architects were almost an expansion pack when I flirted with Old™️ buildings in Y1. This might come back
#andreapalladio and #sebastianoserlio + #michelangelo; #illustration #architecture
#andreapalladio and #sebastianoserlio + #michelangelo; #illustration #architecture
Architecture is a ridiculous profession because you are entranced by some rugged brick and mortar every five minutes:
November 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Architecture is a ridiculous profession because you are entranced by some rugged brick and mortar every five minutes:
There is something so striking about walking around after dark, guided by stark light and shadow. Every inch of material over- or underexposed, raw and vivid. The air is salt and diesel.
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
There is something so striking about walking around after dark, guided by stark light and shadow. Every inch of material over- or underexposed, raw and vivid. The air is salt and diesel.
There are so many good moments. Impossible to get enough. Friends who have been coming here for years and years tell me they still buzz with excitement upon every visit, and I can see why. It’s pure magic.
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
There are so many good moments. Impossible to get enough. Friends who have been coming here for years and years tell me they still buzz with excitement upon every visit, and I can see why. It’s pure magic.
Going to Italy for a study trip is every architect’s canon event. It’s my turn. For the rest of this week I will finally be true to my header. Venice, a night promenade, doubly enjoyable after a delightful wine bar detour:
November 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Going to Italy for a study trip is every architect’s canon event. It’s my turn. For the rest of this week I will finally be true to my header. Venice, a night promenade, doubly enjoyable after a delightful wine bar detour:
dw babe this one I understood!! Yes that’s what I meant & I didn’t know there was a word for it. I first saw it at Rune Welin’s Maria församlingshus in Hbg, which utterly enchanted me until I realised this was much more widespread than I thought…
November 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
dw babe this one I understood!! Yes that’s what I meant & I didn’t know there was a word for it. I first saw it at Rune Welin’s Maria församlingshus in Hbg, which utterly enchanted me until I realised this was much more widespread than I thought…
Please tell me it’s not super niche to like Bengt Lindroos…? 😔 He was my Halloween fancy dress prompt for this year, in which I made an incredibly low effort, some might even say *lazy*, attempt at recreating this photo from his Markelius office years:
November 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Please tell me it’s not super niche to like Bengt Lindroos…? 😔 He was my Halloween fancy dress prompt for this year, in which I made an incredibly low effort, some might even say *lazy*, attempt at recreating this photo from his Markelius office years:
📸⛪️ A recent Tavve sighting from wonderful IG moot @/swedensarchitecture, Vårby gård Church (1975). I rely on a single digit of mutuals to occasionally post the same obscure lore I’m into:
October 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
📸⛪️ A recent Tavve sighting from wonderful IG moot @/swedensarchitecture, Vårby gård Church (1975). I rely on a single digit of mutuals to occasionally post the same obscure lore I’m into:
Another SvD archives win. 📰 Backside notes, I like the list of visible drinks which includes:
- soda water (I think? Don’t know my drinks in Swedish that well)
- snaps
- punch
- whiskey
- beer
- tomato sauce
Need a Blandaren cocktails book although the contents will probably be a danger to life?
- soda water (I think? Don’t know my drinks in Swedish that well)
- snaps
- punch
- whiskey
- beer
- tomato sauce
Need a Blandaren cocktails book although the contents will probably be a danger to life?
October 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Another SvD archives win. 📰 Backside notes, I like the list of visible drinks which includes:
- soda water (I think? Don’t know my drinks in Swedish that well)
- snaps
- punch
- whiskey
- beer
- tomato sauce
Need a Blandaren cocktails book although the contents will probably be a danger to life?
- soda water (I think? Don’t know my drinks in Swedish that well)
- snaps
- punch
- whiskey
- beer
- tomato sauce
Need a Blandaren cocktails book although the contents will probably be a danger to life?
1940s Blandaren interests me because there were SO many architects. Observe, the iconic photo L➡️R:
Rolf Engströmer, Per Olof Olsson, Bengt Lindroos (standing), Harald Thafvelin, Bertil Thafvelin (standing), Mats Molander (cigarette), Hans Asplund (standing), Claes Knutsson, Henning Orlando 🪿
Rolf Engströmer, Per Olof Olsson, Bengt Lindroos (standing), Harald Thafvelin, Bertil Thafvelin (standing), Mats Molander (cigarette), Hans Asplund (standing), Claes Knutsson, Henning Orlando 🪿
October 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
1940s Blandaren interests me because there were SO many architects. Observe, the iconic photo L➡️R:
Rolf Engströmer, Per Olof Olsson, Bengt Lindroos (standing), Harald Thafvelin, Bertil Thafvelin (standing), Mats Molander (cigarette), Hans Asplund (standing), Claes Knutsson, Henning Orlando 🪿
Rolf Engströmer, Per Olof Olsson, Bengt Lindroos (standing), Harald Thafvelin, Bertil Thafvelin (standing), Mats Molander (cigarette), Hans Asplund (standing), Claes Knutsson, Henning Orlando 🪿