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5- Palaces for a New Spain Nobility: Between Creole Identity and Academicism - Pedro Luengo

Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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January 4, 2026 at 10:16 PM
ianhunt.bsky.social
Gavin Stamp's Interwar (2024) is an an incredible work of synthesis, mature judgment and writing craft. (Editing craft too: it was edited into shape by Rosemary Hill and others after his death.) It was the buildings of this period that first got me started on #ArchitecturalHistory . . . . /
Cover of Gavin Stamp's 'Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39' with picture of Battersea Power Station The extension to the German Hospital, Fassett Square, Hackney, by Burnet and Tai, 1936. Yellow brick (elongated, long bricks), 5 storeys, regular grid of steel windows in turquoise-green, top floor windows inset and varied, between tiled columns. Not symmetrical: building is actually L-shaped, behind facade. Historic England text: 'Eastern extension of narrow buff bricks with some decoration in turquoise tiles, flat roof. 'L' shaped. 5 storeys. 7 main bays to Fassett Square. Entrance recessed beneath cantilevered concrete canopy with vertical staircase window above, to fourth floor; short tower with attached flag pole above. 3-light horizontal windows with horizontal metal glazing bars set in bands between projecting bands. Facade to hospital with projecting wing to north-west, with cantilevered block to third floor on north-west corner. Cantilevered semi-circular balconies to south end of block facing with metal balustrades west and top floor with solid balustraded cantilevered balcony. Roof terrace with semi-circular feature. Interior retains original staircases to north and south ends, with decorative chrome balustrade; original reception area with built in desk attached to circular pillar. The original block has special historic interest as an exceptionally early civilian example of a pavilion plan hospital. The eastern extension is of special architectural interest in its own right.'
January 2, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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Architectural History is relatively quiet on this platform -- glad to learn about this book and the other prizewinners. #ArchitecturalHistory
archhistdarling.bsky.social Elizabeth Darling @archhistdarling.bsky.social · 16d
Delighted that Women & Architectural History was recognised by a Colvin Prize commendation last week. www.sahgb.org.uk/features/sah...
December 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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In this first of two posts, we will build the case that Pebble Dash was not a distinctive feature of #FrankLloydWright’s #AmericanSystemBuiltHomes. It was someone else’s idea. #architecturalhistory elizabethmurphyhouse.com/2025/12/23/p...
Pebble Dash was not Wright’s Idea (Part 1)
The documented evidence tells us that Pebble Dash was an alteration of Frank Lloyd Wright’s American System Built Homes designs — something he hoped to cover up and forget about.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
silvernailarch.bsky.social
How do the world’s great religions mark sacred time in the skyline itself?
This illustrated holiday edition explores iconic religious landmarks illuminated for major festivals worldwide.

Read more: https://wp.me/p2M8ej-1Kj

#Architecture #SacredArchitecture #ArchitecturalHistory #UrbanLandmarks
Sacred Skylines: How the World’s Great Religions Mark the Holidays in Light
Across the globe, light has long been a language of celebration. From the colorful onion domes of Moscow to the gilded pagodas of Yangon, illuminated architecture signals both the passage of the season and the enduring presence of faith. Each major religion uses its most iconic structures to mark significant holidays—turning skylines into expressions of devotion, ritual, and design.
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December 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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We are pleased that 📘'Constructing Faith in the Antipodes' by Lisa Marie Daunt has been included on @architectureau.com ’s 'Reading Room' list.
👉 architectureau.com/articles/Rea...

#ArchitecturalHistory #Modernism #ModernArchitecture #AustralianArchitecture
book cover 'Constructing Faith in the Antipodes'
December 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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✨ New in the 'KADOC Artes' series
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📘 'Constructing Faith in the Antipodes: Modern Church Architecture in Queensland 1945–1977', by Lisa Marie Daunt
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#Modernism #Queensland #ArchitecturalHistory #ReligiousArchitecture
cover Constructing Faith in the Antipodes "This book seeks to counter the culture cringe that many have for religious architecture in Australia, by presenting what are some of the most remarkable works of architecture built in Queensland during the post-war decades." - Lisa Daunt spread page from Constructing Faith in the Antipodes spread page from Constructing Faith in the Antipodes
December 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
ianhunt.bsky.social
Start the week with a building. HT Hare, Passmore Edwards Library, Hoxton, 1897-99, brick & terracotta, must have been an impressive new statement in its neighbourhood. Likely some awareness of Richard Norman Shaw's New Scotland Yard, 1887-90. Listings in alt text #Victorian #ArchitecturalHistory
PITFIELD STREET N1 1. . 5013 (East Side) ------------------ Passmore Edwards Free Library TQ 3382 35/474 II 2. 1897-9 by H T Hare in modified Renaissance style. Red brick with terracotta dressings. 2 main storeys, basement and tall double attic storey. Left bay is a tower with pyramidal roof and round staircase turret corbelled out at 1st floor. Drum, bell-stage and cupola above, Wide window with column mullions in upper storey; small windows in baroque surrounds elsewhere, On ground floor round arched entrance with wrought iron gates, At right 8 windows on lower floors mullioned and transomed in eared architraves with frieze and cornice. Brick aprons below. Attic storey has 2 wide gables, each with a wide bow window, with column mullions and entablature, sunk into the wall; and a small window high above. Flanking these, roof descends to eaves level, with dormers. Corner view of Scotland yard by Riochard Norman Shaw, b & w, with similar round corner turret 'tourelle'. GV I Metropolitan Police old headquarters. 1887-90 by Richard Norman Shaw with John Dixon Butler. Red brick and Portland stone banding and dressings above granite podium, slate roofs. Flemish and English Baroque details, marking Shaw's transition to his grand manner with a "defensive" note added by the corner tourelles, the granite podium and four-square massing around central court. Four storeys, basement and three tiers of dormers in steep roof. Nine bay wide elevation plus corner tourelles. Entrance by south east corner of south front with large semicircular arched portal in Baroque rusticated surround with engaged rusticated columns and large broken segmental pediment. Plain square headed mullioned-transomed recessed casements to podium. Second and third floors have architraved mullioned-transomed small pane casements with cornices on first floor and segmental arched with keystones on second floor, the second floor windows to Embankment with segmental pediments. The tourelles are deeply corbelled as bartizans with finialed cupola domed roofs. Deep corbelled eaves cornice. The north and south fronts are flanked by attic storeys surmounted by distinctive large gables elaborated with broken segmental pediment aedicules and obelisk finials. The Embankment front has blind single storey wings projecting from ground floor and linked by tall cast iron railings screening forecourt. Attached to Embankment elevation is a portrait roundel bronze of Shaw by Hamo Thornycroft. Richard Norman Shaw; Andrew Saint
December 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Loved teaching @thebartlettucl.bsky.social students this term, and have blogged about my seminar series, Planetary Infrastructures, here samgrinsell.hcommons.org/2025/12/10/p... #history #ArchitecturalHistory #infrastructure #geography #anthropology #EnvHums #teaching #environment
Planetary Infrastructures – Sam Grinsell
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December 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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December 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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I asked C20 society if they wanted a review of the book but it's too early for their date range -- what journals might publish a review of it, who shoukld I ask at @thevicsoc.bsky.social or in #C19 studies, #ArchitecturalHistory #UrbanStudies
November 28, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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The great @milesglendinning.bsky.social has joined bluesky! Please follow him if you're interested in #housing, #heritage and #architecturalhistory.
November 27, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Surface treatments: Boultings building, Ridinghouse Street, Fitzrovia, H. Fuller Clarke 1903. One of the most original commercial buildings of its date. Nearby in Langham St, 1901, Howard de Walden Nurses Home. Odd: use of glazed brick but otherwise not modern. #Edwardian #ArchitecturalHistory
Historic England listing: TQ 2981 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER RIDING HOUSE STREET, W1 46/1 Nos. 59 and 61 5.2.70 GV II* Corner commercial premises, offices and flats. 1903 by H. Fuller Clark for Boulting and Sons. Purple brick, hard red brick, some glazed tilework and Portland stone dressings, slate roof. Highly original Free Style with restrained use of Tudor derived details. 5 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 5 windows wide, corbelled corner oriel and 2-window returns. Main office entrance to right of No. 59 in broad panelled stone surround, the doorhead raised in "keystone" panel; central low entrance to No. 61 with camber arched deep doorhead contained by reveals carved up to frame by light. Fenestration principally through-storey shallow rectangular bay windows with flush stone frames and plain square section stone mullions, but the ground floor windows of more changeful design with large square section mullion and transom stone framed display windows to ground floor of No. 59 rising directly from pavement, those flanking corner in blind brick bays which at 3rd floor level have large corbelled mosaic panels emblazoned with firm's name in elongated Edwardian gold lettering. Small oriel over entrance to No. 61 with sashes lighting staircase above. Shaped sections of parapet between through-storey bay windows which are finished off with shaped stone roofs or segmental cornice gables; odd square turret features flanking crown of corner oriel and blind flank bays of No. 61 where the centre bay is carried up through parapet and finished off square with cornice and shaped parapet. The whole chunky and variegated roofscape crowned by big square brick chimney stacks. See also Tower House and Belmont House, Candover Street and No. 40 Foley Street. Arts and Crafts Architecture; Peter Davey. Arch topped windows, symmetrical facade with centre entrance. Black and white/cream glazed bricks.
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
ianhunt.bsky.social
Cleveland Street Workhouse, 1775-78, latterly part of Middlesex Hospital, London: scrubbed, bleached, repointed. The postcard is from 1930, the year in which workhouses were formally abolished. #ArchitecturalHistory #Hospitals
georgian brick building, recessed centre range, two wings sticking forward at the sides, behind entrance wall with railings 1930 view of Cleveland Street and the now ex-workhouse, part of Middlesex Hospital (outpatients) in sun. Some cars and vans, pedestrians
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Job in medieval architectural history in Düsseldorf! #architecture #architecturalhistory
November 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Buffalonians like to quote Ada Louise Huxtable, who supposedly pronounced a view in downtown Buffalo, NY as "the greatest urban vista in America." But she never said this. We figured out who did.
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Ada Louise Huxtable, Buffalo, and the Greatest Urban Vista: Did She Really Say This?
We get to the bottom of who declared that Buffalo possesses "the greatest urban vista in America."
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November 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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🎧 Interesting Things with JC
1462: "Cream City Brick" (2min)
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November 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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#ScottOpler Fellowship – Oxford, UK
Fully funded 2-year research fellowship in Renaissance and Baroque Architectural History
Deadline: 28 November 2025
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Scott Opler Fellowship at Worcester College Oxford | HigherJobz
Apply for the Scott Opler Fellowship at Worcester College, Oxford. 2year fully funded postdoctoral/PhD fellowship in architecture.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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From God the Geometer to Brunelleschi’s dome — architect Mojan Kavosh traces how measurement shaped perspective, and asks what happens when geometry gives way to the digital.

Read her Warburg blog: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

#Architecture #ArchitecturalHistory
November 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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David Winterton gives the sixth in our series of 🍁autumn online lectures on Frank Darling, Architect of Canada’s Imperial Age 🧵

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November 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Available in paperback and #OpenAccess 🔓
📖 'Architecture in Oceania (1840-1970)', Michael Falser (ed.)
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Para-colonial, colonial, and postcolonial entanglements in #SouthPacific architecture.

#colonialarchitecture #architecturalhistory #oceania #PostcolonialStudies
book cover Architecture in Oceania (1840-1970)
October 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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October 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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October 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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October 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM