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Robert Proctor
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Architectural historian of the twentieth century.

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Robert Neel Proctor is an American historian of science and Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University, where he is also Professor by courtesy of Pulmonary Medicine. While a professor of the history of science at Pennsylvania State University in 1999, he became the first historian to testify against the tobacco industry. .. more

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · May 30
My book is finally published! Percy Thomas: Modern Architecture as a National Service. www.uwp.co.uk/book/percy-t...
Percy Thomas | UWP
www.uwp.co.uk

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 11h
👀Feel like this would make a great call for papers/edited volume, shall we do it?

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 11h
You could probably write an amazing alternative history of Britain from the point of view your granddad's bus journey.

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 11h
Also sad how quickly the Irish in Britain have forgotten it. (A little-noticed aspect of Gordon Brown's career-ending Rochdale encounter).

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 13h
PSA: Miles Glendinning has started posting about tower blocks!
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This was Sui Wo Court (Sha Tin Area 42A HOS) back in April 2024 - and still today!

And this is what it should be like......
Sui Wo Court, Sha Tin New Town, clad in scaffolding and green sheeting back in April 2024 Sui Wo Court (Home Ownership Scheme), Fo Tan, Sha Tin New Town, seen in 2012 - well before the current protracted refurbishment scheme. The development (originally Sha Tin Area 42A HOS) was designed by James Kinoshita of Palmer & Turner, and comprises an array of clustered 'windmill' plan blocks up to 37 storeys high, featuring elevated 'sky lobbies'. It was built in 1978-82 by contractors Hsin Chong and opened in May 1981 by Governor Sir Murray MacLehose, and won the HKIA Silver Medal. Sui Wo Court (Sha Tin 42A HOS) seen in November 1983, soon after completion. (photo MG)

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 14h
Oh right, it doesn't even go to councils, fair enough then!

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 14h
Councils with significant numbers of expensive houses (i.e. London) will be quite happy. Can't see it making much difference to most councils?

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 18h
Surely buyers have finally realised this now? Always amazed me that so many people blithely bought leasehold without considering the obvious dangers.

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Miles Glendinning @milesglendinning.bsky.social · 1d
This was Sui Wo Court (Sha Tin Area 42A HOS) back in April 2024 - and still today!

And this is what it should be like......
Sui Wo Court, Sha Tin New Town, clad in scaffolding and green sheeting back in April 2024 Sui Wo Court (Home Ownership Scheme), Fo Tan, Sha Tin New Town, seen in 2012 - well before the current protracted refurbishment scheme. The development (originally Sha Tin Area 42A HOS) was designed by James Kinoshita of Palmer & Turner, and comprises an array of clustered 'windmill' plan blocks up to 37 storeys high, featuring elevated 'sky lobbies'. It was built in 1978-82 by contractors Hsin Chong and opened in May 1981 by Governor Sir Murray MacLehose, and won the HKIA Silver Medal. Sui Wo Court (Sha Tin 42A HOS) seen in November 1983, soon after completion. (photo MG)

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 2d
Ah well yes. We'd better restrain ourselves. Or start a timeshare cooperative.

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 2d
No, my commute is long enough as it is.

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 2d
😮 Fully intact 1959 Case Study house for sale.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 2d
oh my god, WANT. What's $25 million between friends?

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 2d
Absolutely unbelievable incompetent amateurism from a government otherwise attempting to perform competence to paper over a sinkhole of absent achievement. What's so weird though is that where HE's concerned they seem to want to make things worse overall without even disguising it.

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 2d
Also, how do they think this benefits students in any way?

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 6d
Reported another conservation area planning infringement?

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 6d
That's my weekend sorted. And the next one.
'Needs grading: 134'

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 6d
Laughing grimly at the Routledge book getting 1* reviews on Amazon purely because the pages fall out when you read it.

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 7d
Looking forward to this.
uniwalespress.bsky.social University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 7d
'Sidney Colwyn Foulkes: The Architecture of a Reluctant Modernist' by Adam Voelcker is out now!

This is the first study of the work of architect Sidney Colwyn Foulkes (1884–1971), one of Britain’s most significant regional architects.

📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/sidney-...

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 7d
Can also be written as 'British citizens who marry foreign spouses better not have any children'?

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 7d
Civilisation flies over it every 2 minutes in giant metal tubes.

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 7d
'Sidney Colwyn Foulkes: The Architecture of a Reluctant Modernist' by Adam Voelcker is out now!

This is the first study of the work of architect Sidney Colwyn Foulkes (1884–1971), one of Britain’s most significant regional architects.

📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/sidney-...

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 8d
I never really look but it always seems to be high up in google searches, for some reason.

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 8d
Stumbled on the best reddit thread in architectural history.
Gluten-Free-Jazz: 'By any chance do you have the source of this statement? I'm currently reading some Colin Rowe and would love to know where he writes about this specific topic!' TomLondra: 'Your source is me. He said it to me, during a conversation in Florence some time around 1996'.

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 8d
That's because you no doubt are increasingly looked on as a millstone unless you get research time funded by the AHRC, or is that just us?

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 8d
I find the admin jobs are always over-estimated because they are what the management do, so it's worth doing some to claw back research and teaching time. (You know this obvs). (Didn't stop me having to prep a lecture during a meeting yesterday though).

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 8d
Free online seminar alert - 'Down Under Webinar: Religion and Architecture in Australia' (via KADOC/KU Leuven), 8 Dec, 8am UK time. Registration link - kadoc.kuleuven.be/english/3_re...
Flyer image for 'Down Under Webinar: Religion and Architecture in Australia', programme - 9.00 (CET) Welcome; 9.05 Practical and Active: Australian Religious Values from the Ground Up (Professor Katharine Massam - University of Divinity); 9.50 Building Faith in Australia's Capital: The Diplomatic Mosque and Other Architectural Narratives (Dr Md Mizanur Rashid - Deakin University); 10.35 Break; 10.45 Constructing Faith in the Antipodes - The Making of the Book (Dr Lisa Marie Daunt); 11.30 End. Free. KU Leuven / KADOC. Monday 8 December 2025 at 9.00 CET (8.00 GMT).

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 13d
Chequerboards (flint, ashlar, brick), Winchester.
Wall and gate in brick, flint and stone in a range of chequerboard patterns. Tile-hung house gable and chimney peeking above a wall of stone, flint and brick rubble, chequerboard pattern at base. Three-storey house with patchwork of masonry including brick window surrounds and string course, and stone and flint in a chequerboard pattern.

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 15d
I searched for 'expressionist bierhalle' and nothing relevant came up. When is the deadline?