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Long, Ongoing Thread Of Factual Inaccuracies, Rhetorical Inconsistencies, And General Misunderstandings From The “Traditional Architecture” Twitter Sphere.

Updated Whenever I See Someone Spreading Baseless Nonsense About Buildings And The People Who Make Them.

🧵 (I’ve Been Paying Attention To And Tweeting About These Folks For A While, But I’ve Decided To Gather It All In One Place Going Forward. This Is That Place.)

What’s Causing All Of These Courthouses To Look The Same?

Get Ready For A Viral 20-Tweet Thread That Mistakes Causes For Effects, Ignores Any Relevant History, Context, Or Agency Of The Designers Involved. Ancient Greek And Roman Art And Architecture (From Which These More Modern Works Are Derived) Was Bright And Colorful.

And Yet Something In The Modern 19th Century Psyche (Cost-Cutting? Hyperfixation On Minimalism?) Stripped This Beauty Away.

Some Drawings And Photos Of The Nakagin Capsule Tower On The Occasion Of It’s Dismantling. Other People Have Written And Will Write More In-Depth Historical Accounts Of The Tower’s Life And What It’s Demolition ‘Means’ For The World.

I Just Think It’s Neat And I’m Sad To See It Go.

Thread Of Unused Ideas For The “Welcome To The Grind” Pamphlet. Will Adding More Over The Coming Weeks.

————THA Here’s Another One. The Pamphlet/DIY-Publishing/Back-To-The-Land Underground Literature Of The Late 60s And Early 70s Is So Interesting.

One Hundred Years Ago The Chicago Tribune Newspaper Held A Competition For The Design Of Its New Headquarters.

Let’s Take A Look At How That Competition Went And Maybe Do Some Collective Imagining About How It Could Be Reinterpreted Today.

(Casual Friday Thread 🧵) Please Keep All Comments And Replies In Line With The Two Following Tenets For Today’s Discussion:

1. No Bad Ideas In Brainstorming

2. It’s Friday, Let’s All Just Try To Have A Good Time. It’s Okay To Be A Little Silly, Not Take Anything Too Too Seriously, Etc.

Again, I Am Not Saying Definitively That Rem Koolhaas Snagged My T-Shirt At The Concert Last Night.

Just Trying To Open The Floor For Discussion.

But If He Did It—If He Was Involved In An Elaborate Heist—Here Is How I Think It Might Have Gone Down.

(Thread With Quick Diagrams) Here’s The Setting, The Royal Oak Music Theatre On The Northern Edge Of Detroit.

Nice Venue, Roughly 1600 Capacity. General Admission Standing Area, Plus Some Seated Balcony Stuff Above (Not Shown).

Multiple Men At This Jam Band Show Look Eerily Like Rem Koolhaas. Double-Take Or Triple-Take Level.

Identities Are Stretching And Multiplying. Distinct Cultural Universes Are Collapsing Into One Another.

Is This The “Vibe Shift” Everyone Was Talking About A Few Weeks Ago? Dropped The T-Shirt I Bought From The Merch Table. I Think One Of The Rems May Have Taken It. Can’t Confirm But I’m Very Close To Posting Some “Critical Reassessments” Of OMA Work.

(Would Not Actually Do This As It Breaks The Hustler’s Code.)

HUSTLE HIGHLIGHTS: STRIKE EDITION

Thousands Of Workers Across The U.S. Are Currently Striking Or Preparing To Strike For Better Pay, More Reasonable Hours, And Safer Working Conditions.

I Want To Highlight Some Of Those Actions Here, On Account Of Their Immeasurable Grind.

🧵 The Photo Above Shows A Member Of BCTGM Local 50G Holding Strong On The Picket Line Against Kellogg’s Through The Pouring Rain.

Here, Some Of The Strike Organizers Discuss What Pushed Their Members To Walk Out.

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