Patrick Zamarian
@pzamarian.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Humanities @LivUniArch
Author: 'The Architectural Association in the Postwar Years' (Lund Humphries 2020)
Author: 'The Architectural Association in the Postwar Years' (Lund Humphries 2020)
Mirador del Rio - home of the utterly evil Baron in German cult TV show Timm Thaler.
September 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Mirador del Rio - home of the utterly evil Baron in German cult TV show Timm Thaler.
In fairness, there were nicer bits in between.
September 8, 2025 at 6:54 AM
In fairness, there were nicer bits in between.
One off the bucket list … I hiked from Manchester to Liverpool over the weekend. 71 kilometres. Won't be doing that again anytime soon.
September 8, 2025 at 4:35 AM
One off the bucket list … I hiked from Manchester to Liverpool over the weekend. 71 kilometres. Won't be doing that again anytime soon.
#AliceDavisHitchcock … how exciting!
September 2, 2025 at 6:56 AM
#AliceDavisHitchcock … how exciting!
William Knight, third-year student project for a Riverside Restaurant, Liverpool School of Architecture, 1946
July 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
William Knight, third-year student project for a Riverside Restaurant, Liverpool School of Architecture, 1946
Winston Churchill in Zurich, September 1946
June 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Winston Churchill in Zurich, September 1946
The Postwar Trinity
May 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The Postwar Trinity
I know most historic periodicals only through bound volumes. I recently acquired some Architectural Review back issues from the 1930s and 1940s. Some of the covers are incredible!
May 24, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I know most historic periodicals only through bound volumes. I recently acquired some Architectural Review back issues from the 1930s and 1940s. Some of the covers are incredible!
That's what it was going to look like in elevation.
May 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
That's what it was going to look like in elevation.
I don't come here often enough - such a wonderful campus @york.ac.uk …
April 10, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I don't come here often enough - such a wonderful campus @york.ac.uk …
University House, the vice-chancellor's residence, designed by Alan Balfour and Colin Beck as an integral part of the original mid-1960s' RMJM campus. Incredibly, @york.ac.uk has no further use for this and plans to demolish it.
April 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
University House, the vice-chancellor's residence, designed by Alan Balfour and Colin Beck as an integral part of the original mid-1960s' RMJM campus. Incredibly, @york.ac.uk has no further use for this and plans to demolish it.
Spotted at York University.
April 10, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Spotted at York University.
Scharoun's superb State Library in Berlin.
February 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Scharoun's superb State Library in Berlin.
Curious to know what a 'situationship' is but not curious enough to read an article about it. What to do?
January 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Curious to know what a 'situationship' is but not curious enough to read an article about it. What to do?
‘We are going to see an era of almost noiseless and very fast road traffic, because I am certain that the electric power car is going to replace the petrol-driven car, and […] will generate its own electricity as it travels.’ (E. M. Gilbert-Lodge, Development Directorate, Bombay, 1929)
December 31, 2024 at 10:46 AM
‘We are going to see an era of almost noiseless and very fast road traffic, because I am certain that the electric power car is going to replace the petrol-driven car, and […] will generate its own electricity as it travels.’ (E. M. Gilbert-Lodge, Development Directorate, Bombay, 1929)
‘[We] are going to see the gradual disappearance of the bullock cart, the gharri and similar slow-moving traffic, and with transport confined almost solely to the motor vehicle, congestion will be reduced to a minimum […].’ (E. M. Gilbert-Lodge, Development Directorate, Bombay, 1929)
December 31, 2024 at 10:46 AM
‘[We] are going to see the gradual disappearance of the bullock cart, the gharri and similar slow-moving traffic, and with transport confined almost solely to the motor vehicle, congestion will be reduced to a minimum […].’ (E. M. Gilbert-Lodge, Development Directorate, Bombay, 1929)
Allerton Library, Liverpool
December 18, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Allerton Library, Liverpool
Technical Building, Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai (John Begg, 1908)
December 17, 2024 at 3:45 AM
Technical Building, Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai (John Begg, 1908)
… for the avoidance of doubt
December 13, 2024 at 8:23 AM
… for the avoidance of doubt
Mixed messages in today's Financial Times.
November 26, 2024 at 5:13 AM
Mixed messages in today's Financial Times.