Vitruvius Grind
@vitruviusgrind.bsky.social
Architecture person. Can't stop thinking about the Las Vegas Sphere. Can't stop listening to the Grateful Dead.
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Robert McCall ‘Visitation’ (24” x 30”, oil on canvas, 1981)
November 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Robert McCall ‘Visitation’ (24” x 30”, oil on canvas, 1981)
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I always find this claim interesting because in 1900 about 2/3 of new yorkers lived in tenement buildings where a 325-450 sf apartment would routinely house 8-10 people
The free market kept manhattan affordable in the late 1800s and early 1900s
A fun thing about YIMBY dorks is that they are incapable of scrutinizing the hyper capitalist economic model that treats housing as a service that can only be solved via free market principles rather than a human right that may be at odds with endless profit and rent seeking
November 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I always find this claim interesting because in 1900 about 2/3 of new yorkers lived in tenement buildings where a 325-450 sf apartment would routinely house 8-10 people
What books do you all recommend to someone (child or adult) just getting into architecture?
September 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
What books do you all recommend to someone (child or adult) just getting into architecture?
Do any of my beautiful and insightful followers have a copy of this on their bookshelf?
Charles Barnard, ‘The Magic Sign’ (ST Publications, 1993)
would reward you handsomely if you could scan or loan it to me for a spell
Charles Barnard, ‘The Magic Sign’ (ST Publications, 1993)
would reward you handsomely if you could scan or loan it to me for a spell
July 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Do any of my beautiful and insightful followers have a copy of this on their bookshelf?
Charles Barnard, ‘The Magic Sign’ (ST Publications, 1993)
would reward you handsomely if you could scan or loan it to me for a spell
Charles Barnard, ‘The Magic Sign’ (ST Publications, 1993)
would reward you handsomely if you could scan or loan it to me for a spell
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out today: the grateful dead's new 60-CD "enjoying the ride" box. i wrote a ton for this, including mini-essays about all the shows & venues, tour lore, & many maps. play with an interactive map: tmns.dead.net #deadfreaksunite
May 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
out today: the grateful dead's new 60-CD "enjoying the ride" box. i wrote a ton for this, including mini-essays about all the shows & venues, tour lore, & many maps. play with an interactive map: tmns.dead.net #deadfreaksunite
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Discovered an amazing beverage at the Biennale Architettura 2025 called an "Aperol Spritz." Has anyone heard of this before?
May 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Discovered an amazing beverage at the Biennale Architettura 2025 called an "Aperol Spritz." Has anyone heard of this before?
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gillian welch mail orders for grateful dead tickets, new year's '87-'88. www.gdao.org/items/show/8...
May 8, 2025 at 5:04 AM
gillian welch mail orders for grateful dead tickets, new year's '87-'88. www.gdao.org/items/show/8...
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thinking about how I could not come up with a better parody of the @vitruviusgrind.bsky.social trad bit about how buildings have insides too
May 8, 2025 at 10:13 AM
thinking about how I could not come up with a better parody of the @vitruviusgrind.bsky.social trad bit about how buildings have insides too
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wrote about how trump is going to annihilate the field of architecture for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Real Estate Is the Key to Trump’s Worldview
His policies and behavior may often baffle, but he is a developer at heart.
www.thenation.com
April 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
wrote about how trump is going to annihilate the field of architecture for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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I won't speak for others but I want candidates who won't just win the next election but aggressively, unapologetically destroy trumpism and rebuild everything he's broken. If you're too afraid of a 51-49 poll to even talk about an issue I have no faith that will be you
NEW: A deportation case exposes a rift among Democrats over how to take on Trump
One camp sees a pivotal moment to lean in and fight a lawless move.
Another camp sees a trap and wants to pivot to hitting Trump on his growing economic vulnerability.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
One camp sees a pivotal moment to lean in and fight a lawless move.
Another camp sees a trap and wants to pivot to hitting Trump on his growing economic vulnerability.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
Abrego Garcia's deportation case exposes a rift among Democrats over how to take on Trump
As some Democrats vocally push for the release of the man the administration says was mistakenly deported, others have sought to steer clear and focus on high prices and economic issues.
www.nbcnews.com
April 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I won't speak for others but I want candidates who won't just win the next election but aggressively, unapologetically destroy trumpism and rebuild everything he's broken. If you're too afraid of a 51-49 poll to even talk about an issue I have no faith that will be you
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IT'S HERE: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a Treatise
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April 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
IT'S HERE: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a Treatise
www.patreon.com/posts/mcmans...
www.patreon.com/posts/mcmans...
who wore it better
April 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
who wore it better
I want to share something I’ve been working on for a little bit!
April 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I want to share something I’ve been working on for a little bit!
Looks like a nice project. On a related note, hit me up anytime for advice on how to make a space look worse on a budget.
we’re launching a design advice column for people with normal budgets who want to make their places look nicer
Introducing: Make It Nice | Defector
You’ve seen those picture-perfect spaces on Instagram and in design magazines—beautiful but often too styled to feel real. Don’t get me wrong, I love seeing a rich person’s house, but it can be hard t...
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March 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Looks like a nice project. On a related note, hit me up anytime for advice on how to make a space look worse on a budget.
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Decorative screen
Van Wert, OH
Van Wert, OH
March 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Decorative screen
Van Wert, OH
Van Wert, OH
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We’ll be hosting a town hall this Thursday evening to provide more context and some next steps (including a counter conference and new organization/journal that can actually meet this moment).
temple.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
temple.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: The JAE (in Exile) Town Hall. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: The JAE (in Exile) Town Hall. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
temple.zoom.us
March 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
We’ll be hosting a town hall this Thursday evening to provide more context and some next steps (including a counter conference and new organization/journal that can actually meet this moment).
temple.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
temple.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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The ACSA suspended its bylaws to form a secret, unelected committee to review and advise it on our journal’s forthcoming issue on Palestine. After a year of bullshit that ended in the issue’s cancellation, we’ve exhausted our options for salvaging it. Our entire editorial board resigns.
March 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
The ACSA suspended its bylaws to form a secret, unelected committee to review and advise it on our journal’s forthcoming issue on Palestine. After a year of bullshit that ended in the issue’s cancellation, we’ve exhausted our options for salvaging it. Our entire editorial board resigns.
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Reno’s own Sphere: the Dome of the Eldorado Circus Circus
March 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Reno’s own Sphere: the Dome of the Eldorado Circus Circus
“The friend group included a portfolio manager from Crosslink Capital, a managing partner from a real estate investment firm, and a jewelry designer whose earrings retail for as much as $6,000.”
March 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
“The friend group included a portfolio manager from Crosslink Capital, a managing partner from a real estate investment firm, and a jewelry designer whose earrings retail for as much as $6,000.”
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Every Pritzker Prize laureate, if they were a Muppet...
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March 3, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Every Pritzker Prize laureate, if they were a Muppet...
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A perfect little case study of the cowardice and complicity that, aggregated across universities and associations, is covering the academic industry in shame.
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor
ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, a...
www.archpaper.com
March 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
A perfect little case study of the cowardice and complicity that, aggregated across universities and associations, is covering the academic industry in shame.
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
anyone out there doing critical, discursively-interesting work through the medium of Crocs Jibbitz charms?
February 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
anyone out there doing critical, discursively-interesting work through the medium of Crocs Jibbitz charms?
![screenshot of an academic article. visible text reads:
"technologies not just through imagination but also from within the systems about which they write: Gaddis at IBM; DeLillo at Ogilvy and Mather; Coover in the CAVE Simulator; Powers as a freelance programmer, Vollmann in a rising Silicon Valley.[8] But the importance of business writing, technical writing, and other technical work like programming to the formation of the postwar ‘systems novel’ has not been explored to the full extent of its promise.[9]
We regard the systems novel, in most instances of its appearance, as a cul-"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gwbndy55p6ti7by6ckdj3mdv/bafkreidpgtxq3ayqte4p7ml6ejte6vudpeye4ekxrlgfx6ty6bera5qsqe@jpeg)
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wrote about trump's bullshit architecture executive order for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...
The Real Problem With Trump’s Cheesy Neoclassical Building Fetish
Sure, it’s a dog whistle for “retvrn” types and the results are tacky—but that’s not the worst part.
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February 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
wrote about trump's bullshit architecture executive order for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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As we’ve seen this all unfold, the take that has been floating around in my head is “I’m voting for trump because most of all in government, I want competence”
February 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
As we’ve seen this all unfold, the take that has been floating around in my head is “I’m voting for trump because most of all in government, I want competence”