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Looking forward to the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference in Mexico City?

📚 Discover our Architecture & Urban Planning collection:
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Manuel Barrón y Carrillo, View of the River Guadalquivir, 1854, Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga

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Tonight’s talk (pre audience) and next month’s (just got to tie all the research together!) #architecturehistory

SIGA at CAA | SIGA As a CAA-affiliated society, SIGA organizes one or more panels at the College Art Association’s annual meeting.

Learn more: siga.spainculture.us/projects/sig...
Image credit: Ex-voto of Cuzco’s 1650 Earthquake, 1651, oil on canvas, 3.34 x 4.62 m (Cathedral of Cuzco)
#CAA2026 #SIGA #EarlyModernArt #IberianWorld #ArtHistory #EnvironmentalHistory #ArchitectureHistory #CAAAnnualConference
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Crepuscular rays are seen in St. Peter's Basilica at certain times each day.

What does a building built over so many generations reveal about the values and ambitions of the people who created it?

#StPetersBasilica #RomeHistory #CatholicHistory #RenaissanceArt #ArchitectureHistory #OnThisDay #Rome #Renaissance

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Unraveling the Fortuitous Link: Rem Koolhaas and Japan's Metabolists in Architectural Dialogue

#RemKoolhaas #MetabolismMovement #ArchitecturalDialogue #ArchitectureHistory mos-architecture-design-en.blogspot.com/2025/10/unraveling-fortu...

Architecture and Artifice - Yale University Press London Revealing the materials and craftsmanship that shaped the look of eighteenth-century architecture in Britain and Ireland   This book uncovers the overlo...

Published by the Paul Mellon Centre and distributed by Yale University Press. Learn more here: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9781913....
#architecturehistory #eighteenthcentury #britishart #irishart #architecturalheritage #materialculture #craftsmanship #buildinghistory #paulmelloncentre #yaleuniversitypress

Kathleen James-Chakraborty will be joining the SAH Virtual Conference 2025 as a respondent on September 18. Learn more and register: bit.ly/SAHVirtual25
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Dark Side History: The Ibn Tulun Mosque & Legitimacy! (9th century)
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#IbnTulunMosque #CairoHistory #IslamicArchitecture #TulunidDynasty #EgyptianHistory #MosqueArchitecture #CairoLandmarks #HistoricalMosques
#MedievalEgypt #ArchitectureHistory

Joseph dasilva (@mrjosephdasilva) on Threads blackchronicles reposts. its ashame the way they treated black people and stole their creations

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At the turn of the 20th century, American architecture began searching for its own identity—something rooted in its land and people, not borrowed from Europe. #Architecturaldesign #Architecturehistory #FrankLloydWright #organicarchitecture #PrairieSchool
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The Modern Architecture Discourse of Design (1957–1988) through a Postcolonial Lens This research documents how the Indian magazine Design (1957–88), along with magazines like Marg, The Indian Architect, Illustrated Weekly, Femina, and Filmfare, formalized institutions of discourse in Nehruvian modern India. Design emerged as a ‘transnational’1 agent that challenged the idea of imitating the West as a way of bringing Western modernism to India. Instead, it … Continue reading The Modern Architecture Discourse of Design (1957–1988) through a Postcolonial Lens

Read the post and discover how analyzing the cross-cultural networking of the experts involved can deepen our understanding of modern Indian architecture:

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#architecture #architecturehistory #indianarchitecture #designhistory #skystorians
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This was wound up in 1987, ending a history of more than 150 years of helping to give Glasgow the look it has today.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #architecturephotography
#architecturehistory #glasgowhistory #highstreet

This beautiful little building was built for the Brirish Linen Bank in 1895, and was designed by William Forest Salmon. Salmon was part of one of Glasgow's greatest architectural dynasties.

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Disaster Relief for L.A. County Fires - LA Conservancy Preserving the historic places that make L.A. County unique

Since I've been seeing a lot of posts speculating about any historical structures lost in the LA fires, here's the LA Conservancy's list of confirmed building losses, along with disaster relief information. #Architecture #ArchitectureHistory

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An early Christmas gift.

#architecturehistory #oldhouses #iloveoldhouses #books #americanhouses #fieldguide

American Historical Association Survey: Historians Teaching Off the Tenure Track

I know we're all about to log off for a couple weeks BUT look at this great survey the AHA is doing to collect data on non-tenure track historians! Fill it out when you return in January. #AcademicSky #HigherEd #History #ArtHistory #ArchitectureHistory
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Ach du meine Gute - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #NaziHistory #ArtHistory #ArchitectureHistory #GermanHistory #Kunst #Hitler #ThirdReich #NaziParty #WWIIHistory #SWWHistory #WWII #SWW #HistoryBookChat

Why were Zoos attracted to Modernist design? - Greyscape Concrete Menageries: Why were Zoos drawn to Modernist design?     We’ve featured the modernist architecture of two zoos in Britain, Regent’s Park and Dudley. In the 1930s, they were proud to commissio...

We’d welcome your thoughts www.greyscape.com/concrete-men...

#modernism #modernist #modernconcrete #architecture_greatshots #Arhitectura #architecture_view
#archigram #archimasters #archi_unlimited #arq #arquiteturamoderna #architecturehistory #historyofarchitecture

A Postcolonial Preah Vihear - JSTOR Daily The debate over who “owns” Preah Vihear dates to the early twentieth century, when the French government drew the border between Cambodia and Siam (Thailand).

I wrote about Preah Vihear this month because I was so fascinated by the legal debates over its ownership and how, of course, it goes back to colonialism. #Architecture #ArchitectureHistory #JSTOR

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Award winning book about the Nebraska State Capitol & its abundant symbolism. #artdeco #leelawrie #law&politics #americanhistory #greatplains #nebraska #architecturehistory bertramgrosvenorgoodhue #leelawrie.com

Mobs and Microbes: Global Perspectives on Market Halls, Civic Order and Public Health Edited by Leila Marie Farah and Samantha L. Martin

Attending #SAH2024 Annual Conference next week?
Stop by the The Scholar's Choice Exhibit Area on April 18th for the book launch of 📖 'Mobs and Microbes' with the editors Leila Marie Farah and Samantha L. Martin.
➡ bit.ly/3Ue37Xj

#architecture #architecturehistory #markethall