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Ashley Gardini

@ashleygardini.bsky.social
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Architectural historian teaching at community colleges.

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Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell.com · 04/12/2025
I'm at the combination
a combination urgent care and taco bell
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Ashley Gardini @ashleygardini.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Still down and still unable to do any class-related work.
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Ashley Gardini @ashleygardini.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Still writing things about architecture…
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Architecture @architecture.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, Pietro Belluschi and Pier Luigi Nervi, San Francisco, USA, completed in 1971
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
Happy Labor Day 🙂
2 shots from tv show Frasier. One shows Frasier holding a sign, "You're Fired." The other shows the producer of his radio show, Roz, holding a sign that says, "I'm union".
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
DS9 scene. Rom is a Ferengi hero who has a large bald head and giant ears and lobes that sort of connect to make a unibrow and a ribbed pine cone looking nose. He's wearing a jacket that looks like those lick and stick backsplash tiles you can get at Lowe's. He's pictured here standing in a corridor, talking to someone and holding/reading a PADD. Closed caption reads, "Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains."Alt in pic 1 Happy Labor Day
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
Felix Gonzalez-Torres's Untitled (Death by Gun) is a stack of posters listing the more than 460 people killed by firearms during a single week in 1989. Viewers are invited to take a poster as the stack is constantly replenished www.moma.org/collection/w...
A view of a stack of sheets of paper, with images and texts printed on the top sheetA grid of photographs of people and descriptions - name, age, location - describing victims of gun violence in the United States in 1989
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Plainly, the people mad about the work required to write well and make great art who are justifying various artificial intelligence tools as shortcuts to that creative process don't value the labor inherent to it.
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Ashley Gardini @ashleygardini.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Iconic Quiznos Ad with the deranged rat-ish thing with human eyes and teeth, and a black top hat, saying “WE LOVE THE SUBS,” with another smaller deranged rat-ish think wearing a bicorne(?) hat, playing the guitar…all in front of a Quiznos Sub restaurant.
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Ashley Gardini @ashleygardini.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Writing and teaching is keeping me sane…and both continue to feel more and more important as histories are trying to be rewritten. So enjoy a short read on Minerva Parker Nichols. @jstor.bsky.social @jstordaily.bsky.social daily.jstor.org/rediscoverin...
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(Re)discovering Minerva Parker Nichols, Architect - JSTOR Daily
The first American woman to establish an independent architectural practice, Minerva Parker Nichols built an unprecedented career in Philadelphia.
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JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Building on his success as an architect and planner in Chicago, Daniel Burnham took American values and aesthetics to the new US colony of The Philippines. From architectural historian @ashleygardini.bsky.social: bit.ly/44HEK8I
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Daniel Burnham in the Philippines - JSTOR Daily
Building on his success as an architect and planner in Chicago, Daniel Burnham took American values and aesthetics to the new US colony of the Philippines.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
On this date in 1776 the statue of King George III was pulled down in New York City. Because America didn't want a king who lived above the law.
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KQED Arts & Culture @kqedarts.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
After eight years, books and zines are still the star attraction at the San Francisco Art Book Fair. It kicks off tonight and runs through Sunday at the Minnesota Street Project.
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Bigger Than Ever, the SF Art Book Fair Returns With Zines and Small Presses Galore
Panels, on-site presses and even a celebrity dog add to the DIY offerings at this annual print soirée.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The largest union in America, the three million member-strong National Educators Association, has voted to *cut all ties* with the Anti-Defamation League, citing the ADL’s opposition to Palestinian rights and antiracism. @labornotes.bsky.social has the story: www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
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Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universi...
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Crazy San Francisco fog pattern, a thread: Fog, a series, from Tank Hill Park. 1. 7:24pm 2. 7:32pm 3. 7:35pm
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Two years after joining an architecture firm as a twelve-year-old apprentice, Bruce Goff saw his first house design built in Tulsa, Oklahoma. bit.ly/43NYJ6n
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Organic and Unusual: The Architecture of Bruce Goff - JSTOR Daily
Both choice and circumstance forced Bruce Goff to forge his own path as an architect, freeing him to develop an individualistic yet natural approach to design.
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Reposting for no particular reason
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Ashley Gardini @ashleygardini.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Realizing Wright and Goff shared the same birthday…which is today.
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Joost @almodozo.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Hell of a photo
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Society of Architectural Historians @sah1365.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Thank you to more than 80 donors who have given gifts to support SAH through the 25 for 25 Appeal! Will you join them and give $25 or more to fund SAH for 2025? Learn more and send your gift on our website: www.sah.org/support-sah/...
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Ashley Gardini @ashleygardini.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Lemme explain why my heater runs in the summer…
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Ashley Gardini @ashleygardini.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Art history degrees - they won't make you rich but they will probably get you a job (but definitely not as an art historian). www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...
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College majors with the best and worst job prospects — art history beats finance
In general, what college students choose to major in has significant implications for job prospects and future earnings potential.
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Ashley Gardini @ashleygardini.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This visit "never culminated in a full-scale raid thanks to informed staff who knew their legal ground and asserted their right to deny entry without a warrant." www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
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Potential ICE raid thwarted at Central Calif. strawberry packing facility
In Ventura County, a gatekeeper at a strawberry packing facility turned back ICE agents during a potential daytime raid.
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Ashley Gardini @ashleygardini.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
"Half of all fruits and vegetables grown in the U.S. come from California, and the state effectively produces all (at least 99 percent) of America’s almonds, pistachios, pomegranates, and walnuts." - californialocal.com/localnews/st...
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JSTOR Daily @jstordaily.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
As an architectural form, pyramids are generally associated with the distant past. But the pyramid isn’t an architectural form that’s relegated to history! From @ashleygardini.bsky.social: bit.ly/44ENUnX
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Pyramids of the Present - JSTOR Daily
We associate pyramids with ancient civilizations, but contemporary humans appear to have an affinity for the peaked structures as well.
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Ashley Gardini @ashleygardini.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Pyramids. Not the ancient Egyptian ones. For @jstordaily.bsky.social #Architecture #History daily.jstor.org/pyramids-of-...
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Pyramids of the Present - JSTOR Daily
We associate pyramids with ancient civilizations, but contemporary humans appear to have an affinity for the peaked structures as well.
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Ashley Gardini @ashleygardini.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The Director of SFMOMA makes over 1 million...I suspect there are other places to make cuts.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Art school graduates carry some of the highest student loan burdens in the US. If you are concerned about your wages being garnished due to collections being restarted, and attended a visual arts program at a US art school, I'm interested in interviewing you for ARTnews. My Signal is karenkho.45
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Ashley Gardini @ashleygardini.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Again, glad this is getting coverage, but the general idea that this is an issue for faculty to catch and fix is another major problem. We do not have the resources or training to be the defensive line.
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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Ashley Gardini @ashleygardini.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Been dealing with this since Covid…but want to say there are very practical things schools/districts can do to eliminate this. It’s no longer an issue at some schools I teach at.
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Spoon & Tamago @spoon-tamago.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This wrapping paper turns everything into bread 🥖 Created by Japanese designer Ippei Tsujio
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
It's Teacher Appreciation Week. Here's how to appreciate teachers: pay them better.
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Yes, What We Pay Teachers Matters
Paying teachers well is an essential part of a healthier public education system
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Ashley Gardini @ashleygardini.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Thinking about that time Alcatraz hosted a fantastic Ai Weiwei exhibit. Source of photos: www.for-site.org/large-ai-wei...
A multi-colored dragon hung sinuously in a derelict prison hall. An art exhibit in a derelict prison hall. The artworks are large panels on the floor with faces and names of activists, prisoners of conscience, and advocates of free speech from around the world. The images are chunky and blocky, like making a portrait out of Legos.A large-scale mechanical bird's wing on display in an empty prison hall.
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KQED Arts & Culture @kqedarts.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
If you’re a disabled San Franciscan who can’t make it to a museum, art can come to you thanks to ‘Art Museum From Bed’ by M Eilo, a disabled SF artist whose work centers disabled audiences.
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With ‘Art Museum From Bed,’ M Eilo Loans Sculptures to Disabled San Franciscans
The artist’s tactile pieces are meant to be touched, cuddled and knocked over.
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Ashley Gardini @ashleygardini.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
The deadline to submit your interest has been extended to May 16. Consider joining one of the fantastic SAH committees. #SAH2025 #AcademicSky #ArchHistory @sah1365.bsky.social
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Ashley Gardini @ashleygardini.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Back from #SAH2025, and gotta say, catching up with colleagues and friends I never get to see was a wonderful respite from the news cycle.
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Dr Laura Fernández-González @laurafg.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Seeking your suggestions What’s your favourite book on cities? I’m particularly interested in scholarly books that compare cities or use a connected histories approach (architectural/urban history/art/social history). Any historical period and region of the world is welcome, thank you!
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, The Fourth Estate (Il quarto stato), or The Path of Workers, 283 x 550 cm, c. 1901 (Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan), a representation striking workers walking forward together to demand their rights, an iconic image of twentieth-century Italy #MayDay
A panoramic image of hundreds workers striding forward, with two men and a woman with a baby in the foreground, painted with earth tones in a divisionist (pointillist) style https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-fourth-estate-giuseppe-pellizza-da-volpedo/9AExoJykUS5d5g?hl=en
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Society of Architectural Historians @sah1365.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
FREE special issue of JSAH highlights Architectural History of Atlanta and the Southern United States. Featuring archival articles and reviews spanning 1970 to today, this limited-time collection explores the host city and region for #SAH2025 Conference. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/j...
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JSAH Virtual Issue: Architectural History of Atlanta and the Southern United States
The editors of the "Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians" invite you to read a virtual issue on the architectural history of Atlanta and the southern US, which has been published in conj...
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Ashley Gardini @ashleygardini.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The absolutely fantastic SAH Contingent Faculty Committee is looking for new committee members to begin terms later this year. Please consider joining (we'd love to have you!) or pass it along to your favorite adjunct faculty members. @sah1365.bsky.social #AcademicSky www.sah.org/about-sah/ne...
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Call for Participation in SAH Committees for the 2025-2026 Term
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 28/04/2025
“We really need this museum to represent Arab Americans in their own voices and their own words and counter a lot of misconceptions and stereotypes floating around.” —Diana Abouali, director of the Arab American National Museum
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The Arab American National Museum Tells a Story of Diversity
The museum’s collection and mission are rooted in the rich, diverse sights, sounds, sensations, and stories of Arab American culture and heritage.
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Ashley Gardini @ashleygardini.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
If you love the Dog Surfing Championships in Pacifica, they need some help to make it happen again this year. #Surfing #Pacifica #SFBA www.gofundme.com/f/bring-the-...
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Donate to Bring the 2025 Dog Surfing Championships back to Pacifica, organized by World Dog Surfing Championships
Help us bring this popular event back live and in-person agai… World Dog Surfing Championships needs your support for Bring the 2025 Dog Surfing Championships back to Pacifica
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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Artist Ruth Asawa was among the 120,000 Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II. Critic Sharon Mizota visits the artist's retrospective at SFMOMA with her mother, who was also incarcerated during the war. Read her review in KCRW's Art Insider: email.kcrw.com/ruth-asawas-...
A sculpture made of tied wire evokes the pattern of a snowflake.
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Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Fun facts about milk regulation: before we had it, milk often carried tuberculosis and other infections and killed literally thousands of children every year. To make it seem drinkable producers added plaster dust, liquefied calf brains, and formaldehyde. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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The 19th-Century Fight Against Bacteria-Ridden Milk Preserved With Embalming Fluid
In an unpublished excerpt from her new book The Poison Squad, Deborah Blum chronicles the public health campaign against tainted dairy products
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Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · 21/04/2025
Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, San Francisco r/brutalism
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Ashley Gardini @ashleygardini.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Still sad that Anderson’s Pea Soup closed but yeah, they definitely should redevelop the space instead of letting it sit empty. www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
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Demolition proposed for legendary California roadside stop
The Buellton site of the century-old historic restaurant could host a new art deco building that would include 125 housing units.
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Society of Architectural Historians @sah1365.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The Society of Architectural Historians welcomes paper submissions for its 79th Annual International Conference in Mexico City April 15-19, 2026. 50+ sessions target diverse topics across the length and breadth of history. Submit by June 5, 2025. www.sah.org/docs/default...
Text overlay reads: Society for Architectural Historians 79th Annual International Conference. CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline June 5. Mexico City 2026 | April 15-19.
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