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Robert Proctor

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Architectural historian of the twentieth century.

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · May 30

My book is finally published! Percy Thomas: Modern Architecture as a National Service. www.uwp.co.uk/book/percy-t...

Percy Thomas | UWP

www.uwp.co.uk

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 18h

I discovered Unzoomed and got Kyoto in one.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 21h

Le Corbusier: let us return to the platonic volumes, cubes, cylinders, what have you

Asplund: [builds Stockholm Public Library]

Le Corbusier: not like that

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe she should have done a degree that involved critical thought. Many to choose from but one might suggest, say, English Literature or Anthropology, for instance.

Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing facts. It's almost as if people like education for reasons other than cash. Apparently this is bad?

From the I newspaper: "A 2020 analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies showed that around 30 per cent of both men and women see 'negative total returns' from going to university, and one in five would be financially better off if they skipped higher education".

Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 2d

Bath architecture + October sunshine = 💥

Part of the Circus, Bath, 18th century curved terrace of houses with classical orders, a shadow grazing it from the right, an old street lamp in the foreground.

Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 5d

Recommend.

Andrew Eberlin @eberlin.co.uk · 5d

We’ve added another tour of Broadmead Baptist Church. The last one sold out rapidly so be quick if you’d like to see inside this recently listed church above the shops.

the-modernist.org/products/bru...

Brutal Bristol : Broadmead Baptist Church Visit 11.30am 9/10/25

A visit to Broadmead Baptist Church

the-modernist.org

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 5d

Had a fling in New York in the seventies.

Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 6d

Starting a campaign to bring back Ecole des Beaux-Arts architectural drawing styles. drawingmatter.org/the-beaux-ar...

The Beaux-Arts Tradition

The following text has been excerpted from Living with Architecture as Art, the recently published catalogue of Peter May’s collection of drawings, models and architectural artefacts. The catalogue is...

drawingmatter.org

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 6d

It's actually a rook though, isn't it?

Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 6d

I mean look, this is marvellous!

Inane and over-polite copilot email reply draft prompted by 'no thanks, it's not my specialism'.

Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 6d

No no, I tried it once and it was far more polite than the real me would ever have been, it absolutely loves the small talk.

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 6d

I hear you can just get some AI to do that now.

Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 6d

It's not even economic expediency at any significant level, is it, just a knee-jerk political signal, 'developers, do your worst'.

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 12d

There's another bizarre axonometric drawing around. It's not what I was researching so I don't have details to hand but if you want a reference to the article let me know!

Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 12d

Not quite sure what's going on here but enjoying the idea of living in a Clarice Cliff world. Unbuilt competition-winning scheme for Croydon Civic Centre by F. W. Halfhide and R. J. O'Donoghue, 1935.

Oddly abstract drawing for 'Proposed Civic Centre at Croydon', modern buildings with slot windows and blank walls, a tall chimney-like object in the centre on the axis of fountains, circular lollipop trees and tall thin cypresses.

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 13d

It's a screenshot I took of my own question on Google AI.

Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 13d

Mildly amused by this presumably lost corner of the 'Treasury Corridor' in John Soane's Bank of England.

A narrow corridor lined with Ionic columns holding up a vault, culminating in a pier of a vault with doors at angles on either side.

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 13d

Have just read the phrase "heretofore the vogue" and made a mental note to put it into use as often as I can.

Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 13d

The fact that Europeans accept ID cards despite, and maybe even because of, direct experience of dictatorship and fascism, should probably be telling us something. But ID cards optional and only because "bad migrants" doesn't seem like a convincing case.

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 13d

I think this about all the independent shops in our suburb. Why do they close at 5, when buses start arriving with commuters ready to pop in on their way home?

Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 14d

lol

Screenshot from Google AI asking it how many 'a's there are in 'artificial intelligence'. The answer is that "There are four 'a's in the phrase 'artificial intelligence'. The word 'artificial' has two a's, and the word 'intelligence' as two 'a's." The answer provides links to further information about these purported facts.

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 14d

On the other hand they're undermining councils' powers over planning. But maybe the calculation there is that the people who notice it most are home counties Tories.

Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 14d

I loved writing about this! www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Architecture from the cell-soul: René Binet and Ernst Haeckel

Published in The Journal of Architecture (Vol. 11, No. 4, 2006)

www.tandfonline.com

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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 14d

Whatever it is, it's always, here's something new and shocking to force you to listen to us every single bloody day.

Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 14d

Or is it, here's something so stupid nobody would ever believe it, but look, hardly anyone knows how to deny it, maybe we can make them believe whatever we want?

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