Patrick Zamarian
@pzamarian.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Humanities @LivUniArch
Author: 'The Architectural Association in the Postwar Years' (Lund Humphries 2020)
Author: 'The Architectural Association in the Postwar Years' (Lund Humphries 2020)
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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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...
November 19, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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...
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This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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@wildtwin.bsky.social Great chatting with you today Jeff. Thanks for attending and talking with the first year students it was lovely to hear you talk about your work and processes.
Thanks
Stephen
Thanks
Stephen
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
@wildtwin.bsky.social Great chatting with you today Jeff. Thanks for attending and talking with the first year students it was lovely to hear you talk about your work and processes.
Thanks
Stephen
Thanks
Stephen
Best buildings in Zurich, 2021-24 - sixteen projects, almost half of them retrofits. gutebauten.stadt-zuerich.ch
Auszeichnung für gute Bauten der Stadt Zürich 2021–2024
Gutes Bauen hat in Zürich Tradition. Die Stadt zeichnet seit rund 80 Jahren regelmässig die besten Bauwerke und Freiräume aus
gutebauten.stadt-zuerich.ch
October 4, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Best buildings in Zurich, 2021-24 - sixteen projects, almost half of them retrofits. gutebauten.stadt-zuerich.ch
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Manchester historians!
@historylabplus.bsky.social and @porticolibrary.bsky.social are uniting again for another History Open Mic Night! Come down on Dec 11th to hear brilliant speakers from the Manchester history scene on a range of topics - book below!
www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...
@historylabplus.bsky.social and @porticolibrary.bsky.social are uniting again for another History Open Mic Night! Come down on Dec 11th to hear brilliant speakers from the Manchester history scene on a range of topics - book below!
www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...
FastHistory — The Portico Library
Listen to a series of quickfire talks with specially invited guests from across the history and heritage sector, then take to the stage yourself to share your own historical passions!
www.theportico.org.uk
September 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Manchester historians!
@historylabplus.bsky.social and @porticolibrary.bsky.social are uniting again for another History Open Mic Night! Come down on Dec 11th to hear brilliant speakers from the Manchester history scene on a range of topics - book below!
www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...
@historylabplus.bsky.social and @porticolibrary.bsky.social are uniting again for another History Open Mic Night! Come down on Dec 11th to hear brilliant speakers from the Manchester history scene on a range of topics - book below!
www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...
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Zürich hat jetzt seine eigene M-Wort-Debatte, allerdings natürlich unter klassisch Zürcher Bedingungen mit direkt persönlichen Attacken auf einen guten Kollegen, Bernhard Schär
September 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Zürich hat jetzt seine eigene M-Wort-Debatte, allerdings natürlich unter klassisch Zürcher Bedingungen mit direkt persönlichen Attacken auf einen guten Kollegen, Bernhard Schär
One off the bucket list … I hiked from Manchester to Liverpool over the weekend. 71 kilometres. Won't be doing that again anytime soon.
September 8, 2025 at 4:35 AM
One off the bucket list … I hiked from Manchester to Liverpool over the weekend. 71 kilometres. Won't be doing that again anytime soon.
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*sigh* No, that’s just the effect of several centuries of rain through an iron grate. Nobody was wasting precious oil during a siege. they were throwing piss
September 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
*sigh* No, that’s just the effect of several centuries of rain through an iron grate. Nobody was wasting precious oil during a siege. they were throwing piss
#AliceDavisHitchcock … how exciting!
September 2, 2025 at 6:56 AM
#AliceDavisHitchcock … how exciting!
Please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/al...
Alexandra Road Retrofit: Stop Potential Fuel Poverty, Mould, and Inequality
Camden Council’s proposed heating retrofit for the iconic Grade II* listed Alexandra Road Estate risks locking residents into permanently high bills, colder homes, damp and mould and greater inequalit...
you.38degrees.org.uk
August 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/al...
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The 1985 Transport Act was one of the biggest policy failures of recent decades. Nothing better describes this than the chart below by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com.
A combination of new powers and funding through 'bus franchising' is looking to reverse this.
A combination of new powers and funding through 'bus franchising' is looking to reverse this.
August 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The 1985 Transport Act was one of the biggest policy failures of recent decades. Nothing better describes this than the chart below by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com.
A combination of new powers and funding through 'bus franchising' is looking to reverse this.
A combination of new powers and funding through 'bus franchising' is looking to reverse this.
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When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.
Universities doubling down as public sentiment shifts away from dependence upon AI. This is the problem with the buy-in.
The University of Michigan is now claiming that students have an ‘ethical responsibility’ to use AI.
August 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.
Slightly diminish a band: Public Opponent
Slightly diminish a band: The Windows
Slighlty diminish a band: Knives and Roses
August 15, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Slightly diminish a band: Public Opponent
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Facebook reminds me that a year ago I started a project of scanning the journals of the Central African Historical Association, based at the University of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, which ran from 1970 to the early 1980s. I have uploaded my scans to Dropbox here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ruzbp...
August 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Facebook reminds me that a year ago I started a project of scanning the journals of the Central African Historical Association, based at the University of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, which ran from 1970 to the early 1980s. I have uploaded my scans to Dropbox here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ruzbp...
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the scenario we all feared
August 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
the scenario we all feared
William Knight, third-year student project for a Riverside Restaurant, Liverpool School of Architecture, 1946
July 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
William Knight, third-year student project for a Riverside Restaurant, Liverpool School of Architecture, 1946
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More and more I am hearing from archivist pals who are receiving enquiries for records that don't exist because AI has somehow generated fake catalogue numbers and titles...
July 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
More and more I am hearing from archivist pals who are receiving enquiries for records that don't exist because AI has somehow generated fake catalogue numbers and titles...
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Anyone know anyone who wants to buy over 1,100 books and over 4,000 magazines of C20 architecture history/theory? An instant collection? Some incredibly rare and collectable magazines including Archigrams, Uppercase, Leonard Koren's Wet (the magazine of gourmet bathing), Arts & Architectures etc etc
July 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Anyone know anyone who wants to buy over 1,100 books and over 4,000 magazines of C20 architecture history/theory? An instant collection? Some incredibly rare and collectable magazines including Archigrams, Uppercase, Leonard Koren's Wet (the magazine of gourmet bathing), Arts & Architectures etc etc
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Bye forever, WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
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Shame, but WeTransfer is completely unusable now if this it strue.
July 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Shame, but WeTransfer is completely unusable now if this it strue.
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Grok says Elon Musk tweaked the AI to "dial down the woke filters" and now it is apparently a full-blown Nazi
July 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Grok says Elon Musk tweaked the AI to "dial down the woke filters" and now it is apparently a full-blown Nazi