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Stephen Parnell
@stephenparnell.bsky.social
Formerly an architect, academic and software peep. Now advocating for media literacy and responsible GenAI in HE. Northerner: border collie & brass band lover. Trombone learner (still). Here to learn not argue. Thinking round corners.
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October 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Anyone know anyone who wants to buy over 1,100 books and over 4,000 magazines of C20 architecture history/theory? An instant collection? Some incredibly rare and collectable magazines including Archigrams, Uppercase, Leonard Koren's Wet (the magazine of gourmet bathing), Arts & Architectures etc etc
July 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
After playing with Disco Diffusion for a few months, this was one of the very first midjourney images I generated exactly 3 years ago. Prompt: "Sunderland Civic Centre cable car depot sci-fi vray render"
June 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Yeah, that's how it works: (from hicarquitectura.com/2025/03/1214...)
April 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
really enjoyed this anti-interview with Le Corbusier, 1962
March 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
London peeps - can you tell me where this is please? It's for a thing. Many thanks.
February 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The Manplan exhibition at the RIBA is excellent: www.architecture.com/explore-arch...
Did you know that they planned 20 issues of Manplan, but only 8 were published? Using AI, my students have created what might have been Manplan 21, a 96-page magazine from circa 1973: Manplan RefleXXIon.
January 19, 2024 at 1:57 PM
It's tough raising autistic kids. They don't play Lego, they build Lego piece recognition and sorting machines.
January 7, 2024 at 10:25 AM
The most special moment of 2023. We'd cycled for 3 hours through the rain and thought we'd missed the ferry to Tobermory, but pushed on anyway. Fortunately, the ferry left 10 mins late and we just made it. The sun came out and dolphins joined us across from Kilchoan. Amazing moment.
December 2, 2023 at 10:07 AM
Some student architecture little mags/leaflets my students have done over the years.
December 2, 2023 at 9:57 AM
Shocking that student exploitation by practices was well known and reported in 1990, and yet nothing done for years and years. Only just beginning to change now.
December 2, 2023 at 9:54 AM
This is a corner of my very tiny office - my walls are basically lined with these things. One of my students last week said that when he first came in for his first tutorial, he thought, "what is this crazy dude about?!" But I think he gets it now.
December 2, 2023 at 9:48 AM
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November 27, 2023 at 10:03 PM
Ferry coming into the Tyne under a painterly sky
November 27, 2023 at 9:53 PM
Reading "Design, Nature, and Revolution" by Tomás Maldonado (1972) for the first time. Astonishing - could have been written this year. Might base next year's dissertation group on it.
November 24, 2023 at 11:21 AM
I've been playing with lensgo.ai, training an Archigram model. I like the first Scooby Doo/Ant Farm van and trailer. Not really very convincing, but fun nevertheless.
October 30, 2023 at 7:06 PM
I'm an architect and architecture historian. How on earth have I ended up on Cell and Nature and The Lancet's marketing email lists?
October 9, 2023 at 10:48 AM
Wow - I've just met Paolo Soleri's Arcology and it's a wild and exciting and insane and a thing of real beauty
October 5, 2023 at 10:16 AM