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rust belt roadtrip (in rome)
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architecture + history // phd candidate researching the slavic midwest
coastal corbusier

adolfo de pertis, church of the rosary, capo di sorrento, it (1971-72)
April 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Love the Catholic Social Teaching window at St. John’s in Utica, featuring Pope Leo XIII holding Rerum Novarum, which talks about the right of workers to form unions.

At the the bottom are workers of various kinds and in the middle are union members and management reaching an accord.
April 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
eclipse in a concrete sky

church of s. bernardo alle termi, rome, it (1598-1600)
April 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
rome lately
April 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
metro systems built from scratch in italy since 1990: naples, turin, brescia, catania
April 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
a church sculpted from light

angelo mangiarotti and bruno morassutti, n.s. della misericordia, milan, it (1956-57)
April 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
losing my marbles in rome
March 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
borromini go brrr
March 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
the nowa huta of rome—quartiere don bosco
March 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
croatian mosaics in rome

jozo kljaković, pontifical croatian college mosaics, rome, it (ca. 1940s)
March 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
concrete sanctuary

luigi figini e gino pollini, ss. giovanni e paolo, milan, it (1964-68)
March 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
blue buildings of milan
March 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
ceilings of the villa d’este
March 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
st. joseph covering the world in steel

frank vittor, homestead, pa (1966)
March 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
the masterpieces of ivan meštrović in rome
March 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
the masterpieces of ivan meštrović in rome
March 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
vestiges of belle époque milan
March 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
vestiges of belle époque milan
March 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
the concrete castle

bbpr, torre velasca, milan, it (1955-57)
March 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
concrete curves

mariarosa zibetti ribaldone, s. paolo apostolo, gallarate, it (1968-73)
March 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Made the pilgrimage to see Z Erol Smith’s polychrome pièce de résistance, one of Chicago terra cotta nerdom’s most revered sites
March 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
the san carlo alle quattro fontane of modernism
March 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
brutalist necropolis

luigi ciapparella, new cemetery, busto arsizio, it (1975)
March 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
completely lost in these cosmati floors
March 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
domes lost to the mine fire

centralia's orthodox church—demolished in 1986
March 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM