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I had a paper accepted to the next meeting of EAHN … a first for me, and very exciting!

I am so woefully out-of-step with such things, but I learned that novelist Paul LaFarge died earlier this year. I wrote one chapter of my dissertation while reading Haussmann, or The Distinction … a wonderful novel that I would not hesitate to assign for an arch. history class.

The meridians of late modernity course through the pages of these two books:

My 17-month old daughter nabbed my phone and inadvertently made some videos. The screengrabs only hint to their “Blair Witch” quality.

The Gift: Stories of Generosity and Violence in Architecture, exhibition Architekturmuseum der TUM shows how buildings delivered as humanitarian, developmentalist, diplomatic & philanthropic gifts have shaped cities around the world, incl. Skopje, Kumasi, Ulaanbaatar & East Palo Alto. (1/7)

An excellent review of a long-awaited book!

I had a mushroom latte for the first time. It smelled like Amarillo Ramp and tasted like Double Negative.

Want to read something on Theodor Adorno, Thomas Mann, Sergei Eisenstein, and Mickey Mouse? Check out my piece on the Walt Disney Features Animation building in LARA #1. And also … SUBSCRIBE

I wrote about The Mouse for Los Angeles Review of Architecture #1, a specialty issue of New York Review of Architecture … take a peek! nyra.nyc/articles/disne…

I’ll be presenting new research next month at the Yale Architecture Forum. architecture.yale.edu/calendar/684-i…

Headed to Florence and Siena from 7/6 - 7/20 for a friend’s wedding and some research … maybe I’ll see some colleagues there???

Now streaming on YouTube: "Iceblink Space: Photography, Architecture, and International Law in the Circumpolar North" by Enrique Ramírez, part of the Yale Architecture Forum series. youtube.com/watch?v=_agNAR…

“Your manuscript is Sebaldian, but not in a good way.”

Do kids ride scooters in Florence or Siena? Asking on behalf of my soon-to-be 2-year old.

It’s 1991 … here I am playing bass

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My latest piece for Architectural Record architecturalrecord.com/articles/17138…

You never forget your first Lynch. For Enrique Ramirez it was Dune (1984). Ramirez writes a tribute that looks back at the work of David Lynch, who he writes designed spaces that “were never just settings—they were characters themselves.” ow.ly/ruu250UIyMG