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Apr 17, 2023 4 tweets 4 min read
Happy birthday, Jules-Hardouin Mansart.
April 16, 1646 in Paris, France.
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Apr 17, 2023 4 tweets 4 min read
Happy birthday, Antonio da Sangallo the younger.
April 12, 1484 in Florence, Italy.
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Apr 17, 2023 5 tweets 5 min read
Happy birthday, Ferdinand Boberg.
April 11, 1860 in Falun, Sweden.
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Apr 17, 2023 4 tweets 4 min read
Happy birthday, Ivar Tengbom.
April 7, 1878 in Vireda, Sweden.
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Jan 24, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
1/ Do you like this building? Vote in Poll at the end of thread.

Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, Paris. 1971-1977. 2/ Drawings located: fondazionerenzopiano.org/en/project/cen…
Jan 23, 2023 5 tweets 5 min read
Happy birthday, Joze Plecnik.
January 23, 1872 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Jan 23, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
Happy birthday, Francois Mansart.
January 23 (or Jan. 13), 1598 in Paris, France.
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May 7, 2022 10 tweets 5 min read
91/ Porta del Molesino di Vignanello, Italy.

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Jul 23, 2021 4 tweets 5 min read
Jun 5, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
@SCP_Hughes I don't find the surprise! 10 foot shorter theory, or the real columns ending up in the bottom of the mediterranean and these being substitutes, to pass muster (especially when you consider the masonry coursing). There are other possible reasons for its appearance, though. fwiw @SCP_Hughes My own reading of the Pantheon in terms of formal design is the fusion of the building typologies on the processional route from mausoleum to pantheon, The key is to read the intermediary block between the rotunda and the portico as a giant triumphal arch with quadriga.
Mar 25, 2021 42 tweets 18 min read
What is Architecture? What and why the Classical?

Thread to be continued and added to... 1/ Architecture is not "building" per se. It is the analogical re-presentation of the space of our world and how we perceive and inhabit that space and orient ourselves in-and-beyond it. The objectification of space as patterned and oriented. (Lonergan, Eliade).