bucket list cemetery!! May I suggest an old @about-buildings.bsky.social series on Rossi as bonus material: open.spotify.com/episode/7wkK...

2/2, this little couple. 💍

I didn’t have good building pics to give Erling so he got a Venice postcard instead. I thought about the travel postcards he wrote to Kiss all those years ago. «Mye fin arkitektur å se her.» Her også, kjære Erling.

#erlingviksjø #illustration

📸 I like architects in casual. More of this please. He’s so cool and gorgeous and his buildings too, oh I love him (I promise I am actually reading this book)

🤍 big love!! I’ve immensely enjoyed watching films of him talking about his projects. He was so articulate. Super glad to have picked up the language (& that he speaks Oslo Norwegian which is the most comprehensible dialect to me…) Endlessly rewarding.

🩵 I got 1/2 of the last Norwegian copies of the Fehn book! Shop guy: “There are copies on the lower shelf?” - Me: “No that’s in English. I want the Norwegian one on the high shelf.” If it’s Fehn talking about his own work, I want to hear it in his language. I don’t want anything lost in translation.

🔴 The Viksjø book, NB not his monograph, is quite interesting. It’s much more art history than architectural history, at least that’s my first impression. Hardly any architectural drawings, mostly photos/paintings/sketches. But given the theme they get a pass. Expecting banger essays. Dual language.

⚪️ The highlights book is actually really good. It’s a chronological overview of the architecture collection. I love that they dissect each featured object. Some of them are pretty obscure drawings and I’ve enjoyed the analysis. And they leave you with questions to think! Also available in English.

✏️ Plus, old stuff from the archives; he’s actually incredibly fun to draw:

🖼️ once upon a time I also drew old buildings. The architect knight:

omg Seifert is bday twins with John Summerson… crazy matchup, that 🍰

Nasjonalmuseet has something like 60 rooms on that floor and it chooses to show THIS one. Can’t say I didn’t laugh to myself in the foyer… And the shop has William Morris (I didn’t come all the way from London for this). They’re so good at milking design history that aren’t theirs, I love them

It’s happening! You can now grab a bunch of friends and, for a probably reasonable fee divided between 20 people (I haven’t punched the numbers), go see Rådhuset next month! There’s a bit more to it than that, but how about a Gbg winter getaway? 😗 rohsska.se/goteborgs-ra...