Architectural Historian, History & Theory of Architecture @Carleton_U. Pilgrim. Photographer. Occasionally a writer. Photos mine unless otherwise credited.
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I had some wonderful adventures on my sabbatical. But the single best day was one year ago today, when I awoke in Lunenburg to find the mist rolling in from the harbour. Skipped breakfast, grabbed the camera bag. ❤️
The PM thinks we should vacation in 🇨🇦 more. I'm all in. Here's the first of several blogs about Canadian places well worth visiting. My touchstone, as always, will be cool architecture.
Feel free to add to the list!
#VacationInCanada
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In case you missed it by accident rather than design: the public talk I gave for @HeritageOttawa last week is now online:
"The Abbot of Kingsmere: Mackenzie King and his Ruins"
Please re-post or share the link if you know anyone who might be interested.
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Get a brief taste of our upcoming FREE LECTURE by Peter Coffman @TweetsCoffman and join us on Wednesday, January 22 via ZOOM for THE ABBOT OF KINGSMERE: MACKENZIE KING AND HIS RUINS ! Preregistrater on our website or via the link on our YouTube channel @
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Our next FREE LECTURE takes a fascinating look at the architectural ruins built by William Lyon Mackenzie King at his Kingsmere Estate! Join us w. speaker Peter Coffman @TweetsCoffman on Wed. JANUARY 22 via ZOOM | Details + PreRegistration on our website: bit.ly/3DRKToP
Part 2 of my podcast with Alex Bulmer is now live!
How do you experience architecture if you can't see it? With your ears, your nose, your feet, your fingertips.
#Architecture
#Accessibility
#Blindness
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Another story on Carleton's financial challenges (and by extension, those of Ontario universities in general).
What's really striking is the comments, almost all of which seem to have been written by people who truly hate universities.
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My latest podcast, in which blind theatre artist/writer/teacher Alex Bulmer discusses how she experiences architecture and place with every sense except sight.
I think everyone interested how we design spaces should hear this.
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Stagnant goverment funding, reduced & frozen tuition, new limits on international student enrollment - it's all hitting the fan now.
Carleton warns of 'significant measures' as deficit balloons.
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In our 2nd-year core course, 'Experiencing Architecture', we've been discussing tactility. We visited the wonderful @MuseumofNature this morning, which offers some vivid experiences of touch.
(Are we allowed to post about something other than politics today?)
This is my 100th blog post on our departmental website! And it's one that gives me special pride, because it's about two of our grads and the important work they're doing at either end of the country:
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A very great loss, of a man who made an exceptional contribution and left a transformational legacy.
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Great questions asked by John M. Richardson. I've asked myself every one of them - some of them almost daily.
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He spoke daily with the dead. He read poetry and wrote books on economics. He served as Prime Minister for 21 years.
And he built ruins - places where the imagination is invited to come out and play. W.L. Mackenzie King was the ultimate #Halloween PM.
🎃👻😱
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It's Hallowe'en month!
If there's even just one building in the whole country that's haunted, it's surely this one....
#Lunenburg Academy. Designed by Harry Mott, built 1894-95. 👻 😱
The Grand Theatre in Dawson City, Yukon, is a 1961 replica of the 1899 original. It's such a perfect replica that, I'm told, the ghosts that haunted the old theatre have glided seamlessly into the new one.
👻🎃😱
