D Fletcher Dunham
@dfdunham.bsky.social
architecture, social housing, & posts about bldgs 🏢📚🌈 Los Angeles
continuing my annual tradition of being the only one (Lutheran) on time to the party (Catholic)
January 1, 2026 at 3:04 AM
continuing my annual tradition of being the only one (Lutheran) on time to the party (Catholic)
our robotic designated driver is absolutely loving my Júlia Várady playlist
January 1, 2026 at 2:17 AM
our robotic designated driver is absolutely loving my Júlia Várady playlist
babe I’m asking to visit Chicago in February, you should be paying me
December 30, 2025 at 4:49 AM
babe I’m asking to visit Chicago in February, you should be paying me
This is a deeply third-tier city take
The problem with maps like this is that they elide the fact that day-to-day life is dictated much more by rural vs urban than state line. There are major differences (I'd never live in Texas or Florida, ever) but the vast majority of the time "big urban county" versus "rural hell" is the big Q.
December 30, 2025 at 3:50 AM
This is a deeply third-tier city take
My boss told me he wasn’t taking calls so when I answered the phone & it was Jason Statham I took a message & then my boss was like what the fuck
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
My boss told me he wasn’t taking calls so when I answered the phone & it was Jason Statham I took a message & then my boss was like what the fuck
Angelenos need to demand the firing of the people responsible for this shit
Careful planning: on Eagle Rock Blvd., the city repaved an 1/8-mile length but split it into two unconnected patches to avoid triggering HLA and installing protected bike lanes. The patches stop just before the intersection to avoid triggering the ADA and installing updated curb ramps.
December 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Angelenos need to demand the firing of the people responsible for this shit
Incredible things coming out of BoE
Yes, the city needs to actually repave streets. Yes, the city needs to repair sidewalks. Yes, the city needs to install curb ramps.
But the bigger problem is that when LA decides to do anything at all to "help" pedestrians, the result looks like this complete and utter bullshit
But the bigger problem is that when LA decides to do anything at all to "help" pedestrians, the result looks like this complete and utter bullshit
December 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Incredible things coming out of BoE
"I think it's the future of city living" has sent me into orbit
modesty laws prevented showing even one lousy frame of John Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) in the trailer, so the only footage in it is of people reacting to a screening they just came out of. every single type of extant queer person is contained in the specific sequences I have selected here
December 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
"I think it's the future of city living" has sent me into orbit
I’m just not interested in anything but Heated Rivalry sorry
December 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I’m just not interested in anything but Heated Rivalry sorry
at Christmas dinner my host told me he had just read this great book all about parking & there was a section where some architect said even our housing is designed around parking & I was like yes that was me
December 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
at Christmas dinner my host told me he had just read this great book all about parking & there was a section where some architect said even our housing is designed around parking & I was like yes that was me
If only a certain competition entry had successfully addressed this, alas
That's what weirds me out - there are so many apartment typologies in this building and none of them is designed for a family with 2 children, let alone more. (Occasionally when I poke on ImmoScout in Berlin I see the same - true 3BRs are uncommon and true 4+BRs are almost unheard of.)
December 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
If only a certain competition entry had successfully addressed this, alas
Incredibly bleak but important story
New story: How does Pittsburgh have 20,000 vacant homes — and a housing shortage?
I show you one block in the Knoxville neighborhood to tell you why. www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-h...
I show you one block in the Knoxville neighborhood to tell you why. www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-h...
How does Pittsburgh have 20,000 vacant homes — and a housing shortage?
One block in Pittsburgh’s Knoxville neighborhood shows how a legacy of population decline and neglect has allowed homes to decay and neighbors to suffer.
www.publicsource.org
December 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Incredibly bleak but important story
you will be visited by three spirits
December 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
you will be visited by three spirits
me: "people should talk about architecture more"
me when people talk about architecture "oh fuck stop"
me when people talk about architecture "oh fuck stop"
December 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
me: "people should talk about architecture more"
me when people talk about architecture "oh fuck stop"
me when people talk about architecture "oh fuck stop"
"It's entirely about architecture" - me, an architect, reading an architecture publication
this piece has strikingly little of interest to say about, you know, architecture.
December 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"It's entirely about architecture" - me, an architect, reading an architecture publication
Kate’s ballroom piece is good & a lot of people are posting hideously bad takes or just intentionally misreading it
December 19, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Kate’s ballroom piece is good & a lot of people are posting hideously bad takes or just intentionally misreading it
Reposted by D Fletcher Dunham
I felt like I was losing my mind watching everyone weep about the desecration of beautiful, sacred white house. God bless Kate for articulating exactly why that's dumb.
December 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I felt like I was losing my mind watching everyone weep about the desecration of beautiful, sacred white house. God bless Kate for articulating exactly why that's dumb.
the perfect bldg doesn’t exi -
December 18, 2025 at 6:56 AM
the perfect bldg doesn’t exi -
Reposted by D Fletcher Dunham
designing for tall windowless lot-line walls in most of America is stupid
December 18, 2025 at 3:37 AM
designing for tall windowless lot-line walls in most of America is stupid
it's okay to say some things are substandard, actually
boy the housing development nerds are insufferable, unpleasant shits about housing development that doesn’t meet their ideal platonic standards (without bothering to understand why something was built the way it was), sorry, YIMBYs, some of you are extremely fucking obnoxious
December 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
it's okay to say some things are substandard, actually
obviously not the most critical issue here but NCAR might also be I M Pei's best bldg
December 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
obviously not the most critical issue here but NCAR might also be I M Pei's best bldg
A reminder I live just off the Expo line & I have a popcorn maker
transit-oriented dick
Grindr hookups near the L = TOD
December 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
A reminder I live just off the Expo line & I have a popcorn maker
Fondly recalling when the anti-YIMBYs went off on single stair as dangerous deregulation w/o a scrap of evidence beyond “we don’t like Mike”
Consultants contracted by Minnesota found that an eight-story single-stair building with 6,000 sq. ft. per floor (building 4) has dramatically lower fire risk than a same-height code-compliant two-stair building with a larger floor plate (building 1) www.dli.mn.gov/sites/defaul...
December 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Fondly recalling when the anti-YIMBYs went off on single stair as dangerous deregulation w/o a scrap of evidence beyond “we don’t like Mike”
that's right
Yes, but also the other (and also far more immediate) thing that governments could do to offset the costs of the former is literally just to build tons of social housing themselves.
December 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
that's right