Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 6hRandomly remembering my trip to Habitat 67 in 2023 1131
Reposted by Christine CiprianiPeter Coffinman @petercoffman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Just getting in under the wire for #StaircaseSaturday #SaturdayStairs #SaturdaySteps I walked by the Kingston Post office today, and got this nice taste of Modern geometry. 071
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Steinways removed from Kennedy Center and put up for salealternet.orgKennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianosPhotos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week. 141
Reposted by Christine CiprianiSarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Today I learned that the Manhattan House of Detention is called “The Tombs” because its original 1838 structure on Centre Street, an Egyptian Revival building by architect John Haviland, resembled an Egyptian tomb complex: 0234
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Perfect column by @philipkennicott.bsky.social. It is truly surreal to have a book on Ada Louise Huxtable in production -- naturally including her savaging of the KC, but also its broad appeal -- and watching this stupidity unfold.wapo.stColumn | The Kennedy Center is empty and in peril. Its community is in anguish.The fiasco of this week’s closure reveals the truth of President Trump’s motivations — and what the arts community stands to lose. 132
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Love this photo of the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève (Henri Labrouste, 1851) by Mario Basnerbasnerfineart.comMario Basner, Saint Genevieve Library, 2021Limited Edition of 185 total works - signed and numbered by artist. 041
Reposted by Christine CiprianiBarry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Beams at the Bean. This morning in Millennium Park in Chicago. 231344157
Reposted by Christine CiprianiJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10/09/2026My favorite doorknobs are the ones the New York City public schools installed at the turn of the 20th century. You can still occasionally find one on eBay! 952597247
Reposted by Christine CiprianiMatt Weiland @mattweiland.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Coming this fall from @wwnorton.com... A stonemason's tale of conserving Canterbury Cathedral, Angkor Wat, Trevi Fountain, Obelisk of Axum, and more. "A captivating, informative journey with an expert guide."― KIRKUS "What a joy to read a craftsman so clearly in love with his craft."―Simon Jenkins 052
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Here it is --cnn.comTrump administration threatens to demolish Kennedy Center if renovations aren’t allowed | CNN PoliticsThe Kennedy Center may need to be demolished and replaced with an open-air performance space if its current building cannot undergo extensive renovations, lawyers for the venue said in court papers on... 020
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Friends! Friends!! WE HAVE A COVER 65611
Reposted by Christine CiprianiDr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 11/08/2026180 years ago today-Aug. 10, 1846-President James K. Polk signed legislation creating the Smithsonian Institution—today the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex. The name honors British scientist James Smithson, the institution’s founding donor. Image: Smithsonian Institution. 010830
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Lovely remembrance of Tom Hines by Paul Makovsky. I spent a lovely afternoon w/Tom in L.A., where he gave me his signature tour of Wilshire Blvd (I drove, he talked) & told me about the time he took Ada Louise Huxtable--at her insistence--to In-N-Out Burger. www.architectmagazine.com/design/the-m...architectmagazine.comThe man who changed how we see American modernism.Discover the legacy of Thomas S. Hines, the architectural historian who reshaped American modernism. Read how his scholarship changed architecture. 2133
Reposted by Christine CiprianiAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Reminds me of a fabulous quote from the head of Cologne cathedral, when asked whether seeing the cathedral without scaffolding was a pipe dream, she said “It’s not a pipe dream it’s a nightmare, it would mean we no longer care about maintaining it.” On monuments Scaffolding = love! ❤️ 17612
Reposted by Christine CiprianiChicago Architecture Center @chiarchitecture.bsky.social · 07/07/2026🧊 Icehenge could be yours! Frank Gehry's iconic front desk at the Inland Steel building is going up for auction. bit.ly/4vT7GXG 📸: Lee Bey/Sun-Times 032
Reposted by Christine CiprianiIsokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Vienna. We got a seat easily in the tiny Loos American Bar (Adolf Loos 1908). The evening was warm and most people wanted to sit outside. 1214
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Loving my new, Googie-ish Route 66 stamps. The white building is Beverly Hills City Hall. 051
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Beautiful exhibition of Mozart stuff at the Pierpont Morgan Library. First image is his old neighborhood in Vienna, near Stephansdom. 071
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 26/05/2026This week marks TWELVE YEARS IN PRINT for The Little Regional Modernism Book That Could. Thanks to all who have bought and enjoyed -- and are still buying and enjoying -- Cape Cod Modern! 🙏 050
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 13/05/2026The famous tulip garden of Benjamin Zander, founder and conductor of the Boston Philharmonic, at his beautiful house on Brattle St., Cambridge. (He invites randos to linger and enjoy.) 0113
Reposted by Christine CiprianiOtto Saumarez Smith @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Something jollier from Coventry: the delightful confection of Festival fru fru that is Alfred H. Gardiner’s Christ Church, Coventry (1953-8). 4328
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Really feeling this (by Dwight Garner). It was depressing to page through Huxtable's archive and see dozens of reviews from papers all over the country -- *for books about architecture.*nytimes.comWhere Have All the Book Reviews Gone? 1104
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 21/04/2026That perfect English handwriting, in this wonderful story about the rediscovery of John Keats's letters to Fanny Brawne. Still, I wish the letters were being donated to a British museum rather than auctioned off again. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/a... 030
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 20/04/2026You'll see some of these gorgeous schools in my book about Ada Louise Huxtable (Winter '27), as she attended several. Many were designed by C. B. J. Snyder -- and there's also a book about him!fordhampress.comFrom Factories to Palaces - Jean ArringtonWINNER, THE VICTORIAN SOCIETY NEW YORK, 2022 BOOK AWARDHow a prolific yet little-known architect changed the face of education in New York CityAs Superintendent of School Buildings from 1891 to 1922, ... 0137
Reposted by Christine CiprianiBarry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Cherry Cherry. The blossoms in Jackson Park. 016232
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 09/04/2026A moving elegy for Toronto's McLaughlin Planetarium by @lloydalter.bsky.social: "I suspect that the planetarium experience that I loved so much is gone forever. ... It was like lying on the dock in summer... I don't think kids or adults have the patience for that today."lloydalter.substack.comToronto's McLaughlin Planetarium: now losing its body as well as its soulThe planetarium experience I loved so much is gone forever, and now the building is going too. 052
Reposted by Christine CiprianiPhilip Kennicott @philipkennicott.bsky.social · 23/03/2026I go back to Benjamin Latrobe, Adam Smith and the founding fathers to argue that Trump is the most destructive force to hit Washington since the British burned it in 1814. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...washingtonpost.comColumn | Trump is the biggest threat to D.C.’s architectural splendor since War of 1812President Trump’s garish, piecemeal changes to Washington’s urban design and architecture are poised to destroy symbolism upheld for centuries. 1229
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Cover of the architecture magazine Pencil Points, Sept. 1939, before the AIA convention in D.C. Some beautiful photos inside. Thanks to George Smart of U.S. Modernist for putting these online: www.usmodernist.org/PA/PP-1939-0... 092
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Love this little brick -- from the Maine birthplace of a Declaration signer -- www.historicnewengland.org/explore/coll... 020
Reposted by Christine CiprianiJonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 23/03/2026An intensely crafted Lutyens detail at Tigbourne Court, Surrey (1899-1901) 511314
Reposted by Christine CiprianiPeter Merholz @peterme.com · 17/03/2026I have a design joke, but it's not ready yet 0324
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Here it comes: "The president has mused about constructing Corinthian columns for new gov't buildings and potentially using them at the White House..." "Cook...said he was conscious of the discrepancy between the ballroom’s planned Corinthian columns and the White House mansion’s Ionic columns."wapo.stAppointee wants to replace White House columns with the ones Trump prefersThe head of a federal arts commission is proposing the more ornate Corinthian style for the nearly 200-year-old columns at the building’s front entrance. 121
Reposted by Christine CiprianiKate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Stamford, Lincolnshire, is jam-packed with beautiful historic buildings, but I think this has to be my favourite 😍🤩 3649
Reposted by Christine CiprianiJonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 08/03/2026those first 6pm sunset of the year vibes 1595
Reposted by Christine CiprianiAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 07/03/2026easily one of the coolest maps i have ever seen 211318
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Stairwell vignette, Yale Center for British Art, Louis Kahn, 1974 1193
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Original Waldorf-Astoria, 5th and 34th (future site of Empire State Building), Henry Hardenbergh 1893, demolished 1929. Photo courtesy Library of Congress 051
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Really worth reading 👀 "The surge in construction of the large data centers... [is] emerging as another potential contributor to America’s housing shortage... selling parcels to data-center developers can be far more profitable than any other use of the land."wsj.comBig Tech Is Buying Up America’s Land—and Home Builders Can’t CompeteResistance grows to more land sales in Northern Virginia. “They’d rather have homes than data,” said a former Prince William County supervisor. 021
Reposted by Christine CiprianiMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 23/02/2026"Winter Scene from My Window," 1933, by Allan Rohan Crite, influential Boston-based African American artist & illustrator whose work is now on view in a show at Rutgers University's Zimmerli Art Museum zimmerli.rutgers.edu/art/exhibiti... 015842
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Looking forward to the Raclette Olympics 🔥 031
Reposted by Christine CiprianiChicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 20/02/2026A little (okay, big) half-timbering treat for the weekend. 7616 Rogers Ave., ca. 1915? 1383
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Excellent read by @aluckmann.bsky.social on the new wave of Shaker appreciation www.archpaper.com/2026/02/shak... 2101
Reposted by Christine CiprianiAlan Strauber @alanstrauber.bsky.social · 09/02/2026I am very excited to share that I signed a publishing contract today for my forthcoming book, Grand Central Terminal and the Rise of Midtown Manhattan, with SUNY Press. Estimated release date is the end of 2028. I know my Dad is smiling down. 091
Reposted by Christine CiprianiOnly In Boston @onlyinbos.bsky.social · 02/02/2026It's so cold in Boston right now that packs of coyotes are able to cross the water today. 📸: @jcass35 120059
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Balthazar Korab, 1959: Minoru Yamasaki, Reynolds Metals Regional Office, Southfield, Mich. www.loc.gov/resource/ds.... 081
Reposted by Christine CiprianiKate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 18/01/2026A bit of a bleak day weather-wise today, but Fountains Abbey is still beautiful and atmospheric, regardless! 😍 Here’s the lovely 12th century bridge on the left and breakwater to the right. 414416
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 18/01/2026A friend's daughter plays in the Delft university orchestra, and my friend shared this incredibly cool graphic for their next concert: 160
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Model for Museum of Modern Art, Philip L. Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone, 1939 080
Reposted by Christine CiprianiJames Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 16/01/2026“my place Saturday tapping a new cask of amontillado come on over” 1348