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Kosmograd
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Mostly thinking about: Suprematism, Disurbanism, speculative design, UX, landscape painting, electronica, board games, music, the Wolves.

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🚨 My latest blog post is on Bergpolderflat, Rotterdam - the 1934 modernist scheme that revolutionised social housing and provided the prototype of the postwar slab block:
municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/h...
November 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I explained very clearly to the dog that the clocks were going back last night, but there she goes whining at 7 o’clock
October 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I used to think the line in the nursery rhyme Row, row, row your boat was “life’s a butter dream” and I’m still convinced it’s vastly superior
September 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The irony of having a loyalty card for every single supermarket
September 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Ten days to reach our goal. Pledge to our crowdfunder and help bring this important book to life. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/modernist-...
August 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The spiders in our house come for the flies, but stay for the tunes
July 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Hertzog and de Meuron
June 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“oranges and lemons” starts off with a quaint fruit/church rhyming couplet and ends with a brutal beheading. WTF? #nurseryrhymes
June 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
BBC Sport website consists almost entirely of articles about Man Utd.
June 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The image accompanying this article www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... on the BBC website about Swinfen Hall prison has either got an amazing trompe-l'œil decoration, insane light and shadow casting, or got some kind of Suprematist watermark overlay. Any ideas?
Swinfen Hall prison lockdowns harming rehabilitation - families
The BBC speaks to families of criminals in a prison where there have been serious outbreaks of violence.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 27, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Giro d'Italia will go right past Villa La Rotonda on way into Vicenza today. Bellissimo! #giroditalia #palladio
May 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Ah, the 7 o’clock sound of wheelie bins being trundled down driveways #soundofthesuburbs
May 8, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Following the next BBC charter review, each series of a house through time will end with a chance to pay to win the house.
April 24, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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April 18, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Our annual viewing of the Brutalist Easter Bunny in Jyväskylä, Finland.

www3.jkl.fi/taidemuseo/v...
April 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Malevich's Arkhitektons and Planits finally getting the attention they deserve: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254890.... #suprematism
The Additional Element in Architecture
Among the Russian avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich’s most intriguing works, the arkhitektons are also the most enigmatic, as these quasi-architectur...
mitpress.mit.edu
April 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Burning City, 1920's by Gerardo Dottori (1884 – 1977) an Italian Futurist painter. Dottori's principal output was the representation of landscapes and visions of Umbria, mostly viewed from a great height.

#futurist #ArtHistory #art
March 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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I've been meaning to do this for some time, and it's probably a very niche subject, but here's a Warrington-Runcorn bibliography for you. warringtonruncorn.com/news/a-warri...
A Warrington-Runcorn bibliography – Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan
warringtonruncorn.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Header image choice is so very sweet
"The only way to guarantee real housing abundance is deep public support, adding state capacity to build+maintain a home for everyone. Something analogous goes for health care+food clean air+water parks schools transit news universities science museums+worthwhile art"
thebaffler.com/latest/whats...
What’s the Matter with Abundance? | Malcolm Harris
“Abundance” by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is new packaging for a tried-and-failed attempt to escape from history on a rocket ship.
thebaffler.com
March 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A delicious breakfast of crunchy nut paracetamol
March 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
The next edition of Lost Edges, my newsletter about my journey as an artist (Suprematist landscapes, mostly) is going out tomorrow. Sign up here: martingittins.eo.page/z3vsm
#suprematism #painting #landscapeartist
March 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Next year’s Super Bowl half time show performer: William Basinski #disintegrationloops #Superbowl
February 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Good haul from Mrs Lofthouse’s Emporium in Scarbs this weekend, including these two #pietoudolf #constructivism www.mrslofthouse.co.uk
February 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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January 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM