Omg

Ah ok! Apologies - Yes, there are quite a few places to sit, I think there was a ledge of sorts by the building entrance too.

Photo of wooden bench — a handful of are scattered throughout the site.

Detail photo of wooden bench — dowels are visible in the arm rest .

Photo of wooden bench — the benches are designed with a jaunty outline.

More on these chunky benches - they appear to be made out of large pieces of wood, and are held together with dowels. They’re a bit worse for wear but are a lovely addition (and comfortable).

This one’s for you @susanklaiber.bsky.social

Yup!

Recently gave this book a read and its really great! Highly relevant

This is a great idea for an op-ed

I think you really hit the nail on the head here re: the ideal driving this is everyone being a consumer rather than a citizen.

Vincent Scully | Frank Lloyd Wright 1914-1959 (Modern Architecture Course) YouTube video by Vincent Scully Lectures

Also important to point out that architectural historian Vincent Scully argued that the origin point of Wright’s architecture laid not with European Arts and Crafts or Japanese woodblock prints but with the temples of Teotihuacan

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp6p...

Poverty Point is best seen from the air, so this sad photo doesn’t do it justice!

OG Skyscraper = walls are 6 feet thick

Good Lord

Opposition Democrats would do well to gather up a shadow Cabinet and broadcast this type of cogent, informative content on a regular basis to counter the right wing algo slop that has broken the nation’s information landscape.

Big thank you to @shannonmattern.bsky.social for putting this show/gallery on my radar!

Poster for General Electric’s hydropower service showing a dam rendered in a naturalistic style.

Abstract style power depicting parallel views of a machinist bolting steel and a solider firing a machine gun.

Also work by other artists of the period showing similarities and differences in the styles.

US Housing Authority poster with the words “slums breed crime” and a red, handcuffed hand overlaid upon a scene of a man being arrested.

US Housing Authority poster with a hand using a piece of chalk marked “USHA” to cross out dilapidated rural housing.

Advertisement for apartment listings in Chicago with an image of a couple inspecting an apartment framed in a freeform outline.

Rural Electrification Administration posters showing people planning power line locations and a housewife using a new stove.

Some incredibly evocative images, great wall text too.

Rural Electrification Administration poster showing a tap with the words “running water” running across the image.

Series of red white and blue posters depicting tanks, bombers, artillery, and war ships created for the Office for Emergency Management, Division of Information

Sketches of Rural Electrification Administration posters.

Colorful Rural Electrification Administration posters showing scenes from everyday rural life made better through electricity.

Amazing show on the work of New Deal era illustrator / graphic designer Lester Beall at the Poster House gallery in Manhattan. Closes this weekend!

Very cool!!

Came across this recently: guerrerophoto.com/portfolio/ha...

Has been meaning to revisit A People’s History - check out his biography on LaGuardia if you haven’t!

This sense of making government fair was pervasive in New Deal programs.

Harold Ickes went to extremes to exert due diligence in contracting and budgeting via PWA / WPA programs. And was constantly working to display the effectiveness, prudence, and impact of relief efforts.

The [government] is not a computer!

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This is so deeply beautiful

Wild movie

Thank you both! These are all great!