Robert Proctor
@rproctor.bsky.social
Architectural historian of the twentieth century.
Brilliant. My first thought is, what does it tell us that Vitruvius didn't? Maybe that the columns weren't monoliths, unless that's just a foundation?
January 23, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Brilliant. My first thought is, what does it tell us that Vitruvius didn't? Maybe that the columns weren't monoliths, unless that's just a foundation?
Compulsory AI blether on everything on Proquest now, is it? How about we takeaway Clarivate?
January 14, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Compulsory AI blether on everything on Proquest now, is it? How about we takeaway Clarivate?
Braved the chill and went to Tyntesfield House, Somerset, the other day. Chapel by Arthur Blomfield, 1870s. Garden by the NT rulebook.
January 6, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Braved the chill and went to Tyntesfield House, Somerset, the other day. Chapel by Arthur Blomfield, 1870s. Garden by the NT rulebook.
Percy Thomas's Swansea Guildhall appropriately standing in for bureaucratic fictional "Imperial Buildings" in London in latest BBC silly sci fi drama.
December 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Percy Thomas's Swansea Guildhall appropriately standing in for bureaucratic fictional "Imperial Buildings" in London in latest BBC silly sci fi drama.
Modern churches in Italy - two book recommendations.
December 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Modern churches in Italy - two book recommendations.
That's my weekend sorted. And the next one.
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
That's my weekend sorted. And the next one.
Stumbled on the best reddit thread in architectural history.
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Stumbled on the best reddit thread in architectural history.
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...
Chequerboards (flint, ashlar, brick), Winchester.
November 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Chequerboards (flint, ashlar, brick), Winchester.
Lutyens's Campion Hall, Oxford. Tinkling bell capitals similar to those at New Delhi, and a busy proliferation of horizontal lines.
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Lutyens's Campion Hall, Oxford. Tinkling bell capitals similar to those at New Delhi, and a busy proliferation of horizontal lines.
Finishing touches under way for my talk on Percy Thomas's interwar modern classicism at the Lutyens Trust conference on 1 November. #20s30s www.lutyenstrust.org.uk/portfolio-it...
October 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Finishing touches under way for my talk on Percy Thomas's interwar modern classicism at the Lutyens Trust conference on 1 November. #20s30s www.lutyenstrust.org.uk/portfolio-it...
I keep thinking there should be a biography of the prominent C20 classical architect everyone always ignores, Sir Edwin Cooper, but there's no way I'm going to write it myself. Anyone want to do it for a PhD, get in touch?
October 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I keep thinking there should be a biography of the prominent C20 classical architect everyone always ignores, Sir Edwin Cooper, but there's no way I'm going to write it myself. Anyone want to do it for a PhD, get in touch?
Amazing facts. It's almost as if people like education for reasons other than cash. Apparently this is bad?
October 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Amazing facts. It's almost as if people like education for reasons other than cash. Apparently this is bad?
Bath architecture + October sunshine = 💥
October 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Bath architecture + October sunshine = 💥
I mean look, this is marvellous!
October 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I mean look, this is marvellous!
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.
September 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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.
Mildly amused by this presumably lost corner of the 'Treasury Corridor' in John Soane's Bank of England.
September 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Mildly amused by this presumably lost corner of the 'Treasury Corridor' in John Soane's Bank of England.
Roast bittern for dinner?
August 29, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Roast bittern for dinner?
Representing nature at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.
August 19, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Representing nature at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.
Later, of course, ultra-modern Dutch metropolitan style, more recently followed by postmodern neo-Victorian heritage warehouse style.
August 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Later, of course, ultra-modern Dutch metropolitan style, more recently followed by postmodern neo-Victorian heritage warehouse style.
1990s/early 2000s harbourside regeneration housing in Bristol: Lancashire suburban Tesco style, Essex Design Guide neo-vernacular style, Dorset village Regency style.
August 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
1990s/early 2000s harbourside regeneration housing in Bristol: Lancashire suburban Tesco style, Essex Design Guide neo-vernacular style, Dorset village Regency style.