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Chris Grimley

@heroicproject.bsky.social

160 followers 102 following 17 posts

Graphic designer, experiential objects, former and recovering architect. Lover of ugly monsters. Runner.

Chris Grimley @heroicproject.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I check @atrupar.com here at noon for sanity. the day's bats*** news can be measured in wheel scrolls. todays was 14. oh boy.

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Chris Grimley @heroicproject.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Wrote an elegy-in-prose for Robert Campbell in ArchPaper. “If anything, we need more Robert Campbells—critics who can translate the built environment into public language, who can hold designers, planners, and institutions accountable, and who remind us that cities are made of values.”

archpaper.com

Robert Campbell, The Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize winning architecture critic, dies at 88

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert Campbell died on April 29 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Campbell wrote for The Boston Globe over four decades all while running his own architecture practice.

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Chris Grimley @heroicproject.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

self-portrait, with concrete.

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Chris Grimley @heroicproject.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Still amazed a week and a bit later that this place was built. So jealous of you @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social, but at least I have @boston.gov's hall. Let's call it a draw. (kidding, you win.)

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Chris Grimley @heroicproject.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

State Street brutal.

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Chris Grimley @heroicproject.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The Brutalist has been a boon for discussions about what is and isn't. Great to hear @marklamster on with the @theromanmars on the not-brutalism of the film. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/617-... Heroic, the book, can be found here. Heroic, the project, continues.

99percentinvisible.org

The Brutalists - 99% Invisible

From Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men to Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle, from Charles Bronson in Death Wish to Luke Wilson in My Super Ex-Girlfriend, there have been countless architect characters onscr...

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Chris Grimley @heroicproject.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

This is going to be relevant methinks. Cover at the moment, but full book coming in 2025. Written by Andrew Santa Lucia, Daniel Jonas Roche. Lovingly illustrated by Lane Rick. www.park-books.com/en/produkt/a...

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Chris Grimley @heroicproject.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

First appearance:

archpaper.com

A Double Feature at pinkcomma

Increasingly becoming home to Boston's architectural community, pinkcomma gallery opened its third Fall season on with two exhibitions: Heroic and

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Chris Grimley @heroicproject.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Almost 15 years ago the pull-sheet edition of HEROIC was mounted (w @microkubo.bsky.social and Mark Pasnik). Since then countless lectures, talks, a few battles, tv and radio, a book with @criticalterrain.bsky.social securing a Getty grant, and finally, this. There’s a new Brute in town.

archpaper.com

Boston City Council accepts Boston City Hall landmark designation, a major step towards its preservation

In a unanimous decision, Boston City Hall’s landmark designation was accepted last night by Boston City Councilors, a decisive victory for Brutalism boosters the world over. The vote is a major step t...

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Chris Grimley @heroicproject.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Finding out that this was mixed by David Pierce is about the best thing ever. It has such a Flying Saucer Attack vibe that I've had it on repeat @_simonscott of #slowdive solo. kesh.bandcamp.com/album/fade-in

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Fade In, by Three Quarter Skies

8 track album

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Chris Grimley @heroicproject.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

HELLO. Many identities—book designer, author, wayfinding, and now type (a custom face for new project, and yes, the S needs work). I've written books about concrete and steel, urban renewal, and design. Working on all fronts. HEROIC is my brutalist alter-ego, SIGNALS is the design side.

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