⏰ Reminder: Join us on Monday for our next lecture, ‘If a landscape ‘speaks’, can we hear it?’, with speaker Professor Aonghus MacKechnie
📅 10 November, 6:30 pm
📍 Augustine United Church, Edinburgh (wheelchair accessible)
💻 Also streamed live via Zoom
🎟 £6 / £2 students: buff.ly/pPDEItf
Had a lovely visit there the other week led by Adam Menuge as part of his Building History course! Great day out!
Looking for a reasonably priced second-hand copy of J Mordaunt Crook’s “Greek Revival” - full hardback version and not the short 64-pager published by Country Life. If anyone comes across one, do let me know…
Wow! Lovely and patient work!
Cover of the book 'Building Modern Scotland', which shows boys and their bicycles amid new town housing (actually Cumbernauld)
'Building Modern Scotland' exists! Publication date is 6 Feb; it'll be available Open Access (free) online then, & in print. Big thanks to all co-authors inc. (on here) @lynncabrams.bsky.social @vawright10.bsky.social, & funder @leverhulme.bsky.social. I'll trail some themes in the coming week...
@mrabercrombie.bsky.social great potted history of Provand's Lordship tonight. Thank you.
It is, good spot!
One for @glasgowcoa.bsky.social - hidden away on a rear elevation in Edinburgh. Savage.
Want to dive deeper? Join us for a fascinating evening exploring the building's restoration with @mrabercrombie.bsky.social:
🗓️ Thursday, 23rd January
⏰ 7.30pm
📍 Glasgow & Zoom
🎟️ Tickets: £6 / Students £2 / Season Ticket for 5 Lectures: £25
🎟️ Book now on Eventbrite: https://buff.ly/41dlmQM
Some refresher reading on the train this morning… #ICOMOS
Lovely colour on the windows too 👍
Wow - what a beautiful and layered interior 😢
New year new book - A History of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery by Duncan Thomson 🤓
Belated thoughts on the Aalto doc, pretty good bio of Aalto/Artek which tends to focus on the lives of Alvar, Aino and Elissa; the consequence being that the work / process of the atelier was secondary. Certainly not a hagiography, Alvar loses his lustre somewhat through watching… 7/10
Tonight’s watch is Aalto: Architect of Emotions (2020) - shopped around and available to buy / rent cheapest via YouTube #aalto #artek
Thanks Marta, I’ve ordered the John Stewart one ☝️ 🤓
Doesn’t look like it’s streaming yet - will keep an eye out! Either that or hopefully the @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social might pick it up…
Can also highly recommend this old education film from the 60s now available via @natlibscot.bsky.social - Battle of the Styles: A Study of Nineteenth Century Architecture - covers the classical vs gothic stylistic / philosophical debate in Scotland: movingimage.nls.uk/film/2319
To start things off… I’ve previously expressed my adoration on here for Louis Sullivan - A Struggle For An American Architecture, 10/10 no notes! (And a reminder for @darrenmcleanuk.bsky.social to get it watched!) youtu.be/aAZEM-hloTM?...
Any recommendations for favourite architecture / conservation adjacent documentaries - looking to line up some inspirational watching for the break! #architect #architecture @alistairfair.bsky.social @about-buildings.bsky.social
Bad news… I remember visiting the upper floor several years ago with John Gilbert to try and get them interested in the CARS scheme at the time. Alas…
Looking to pick up an Aalto monograph/biography, only have a couple of shorter volumes currently… any recommendations for which one to go for? (cc @about-buildings.bsky.social @barnabascalder.bsky.social)
Bargain just now on the @vadundee.bsky.social shop… Kenneth Frampton on Kengo Kuma, don’t mind if I do! #Architecture
Nice to pop down to London last week and pick up a conservation citation for our work at Provand’s Lordship - and to meet Kevin McCloud, who was as lovely as you’d hope!
I did indeed - thanks for the company!!
First afternoon down of a long weekend in London - lovely wander round with @about-buildings.bsky.social for company! Now trying out @honestburgers.bsky.social for a solo dinner…
Alas, it’s already sold out on the days I’m about… thanks for the tip, will add it to the list for next time!
I’m off to London this coming week for the Stone Federation Awards and have a couple of days either side to explore, any recommendations for good new buildings (or old favourites) to see are very much welcomed…
Nah not long, just for the last year or so - you? I think so, certainly seems like they’d know what to do with a bigger production budget etc - will enough folk at a festival know everything in their set? Might not be quite the same as seeing them with an arena full of ST fans!
Aye the lighting was fantastic - a couple of songs that I wasn’t as excited to see (ie dark signs) ended up standing out because the production was so good!