📖 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

📹 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...

‘Is this my postmodernism era?’ she wonders aloud as Sten Samuelson, Harald Thafvelin, and Carl Nyrén drag her away from the Modernists (I jest. Tallum aren’t letting anyone take me. This has not happened…yet)

Can I please meet your grandson (again) and this time ask to see his film about you, I can’t get it on SVT Play anymore… Also I do track friends and loved ones’ bdays like a normal person! (it’s nice when there are overlaps though)

Omg Dell and Wainwright mentioned!! They were so great <33

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:

Haha thanks, it’s been nothing but wonderful! Architectural rite of passage.

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:

📖 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??

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.

And the Palladians (+ Inigo Jones):

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.