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Patrick Zamarian

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Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Humanities @LivUniArch Author: 'The Architectural Association in the Postwar Years' (Lund Humphries 2020)

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Patrick Zamarian @pzamarian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Think it might be time for The Wire again … it's been a few years.
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Patrick Zamarian @pzamarian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Research in and on the Liverpool School of Architecture 2008 >>> 2026
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Barnabas Calder @barnabascalder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm giving a talk online this evening (5:30 UK time) for Architectural Institute Prague, about how learning from past building norms could not only reduce our ecological harms but also improve our health and happiness. Do join if you're interested: www.youtube.com/@architectur...
Poster advertising "Building our way into (and out of?) climate emergency"
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Construction History Society @constructionhist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Well, this looks pretty disastrous for researchers into English structures. How on earth could this have happened so suddenly that #HisttoricEngland had no warning?? Their risk register and risk management must be pretty weak. www.sarsen.org/2026/09/hist...
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Historic England’s Vanishing Archive
Historic England’s photos didn’t vanish. SmartFrame did. Then they broke their own links. Not just the aerials. The lot. Historic Englan...
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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
64 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️
Rachel Carson photo credit: Science History Images / Alamy
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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My TLS piece on the Exeter cuts ✨
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/09/2026
Mark Carney mocks Trump's accordion hands
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Marta O'Brien @archhistory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hooray! Late architect Robert Hill's incredible Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950 is back online thanks to a recovery. I think Robert would be happy that his decades of work have been preserved. canadianarchitects.org/about/
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The Recovery — Dictionary of Architects in Canada
How the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada was recovered from the Internet Archive.
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Patrick Zamarian @pzamarian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Cheap shit www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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United Utilities fined nearly £1m after discharging raw sewage along Lancashire coast
Seaside communities and businesses were affected significantly by the contamination in June 2023
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Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
theonion.com/guy-who-suck...
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Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI
SAN MATEO, CA—After spending the past three decades of his life being totally unable and unwilling to engage in any meaningful way with the world around him, James Parker, a local guy who sucks at bei...
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Patrick Zamarian @pzamarian.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Teradeth
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Let's assume for a moment that "the left" takes a "massive generational L" and AI is everywhere and we all have to use it. I think we'll all be ok because it takes like 30 seconds to learn how to use because it was designed so dumb fucking babies can use it
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
One of the most significant libraries of housing and planning in the country urgently needs a good home. Full details here: municipaldreams.substack.com/p/a-good-hom...
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A Good Home Needed Urgently for One of the Most Significant Libraries of Housing and Planning in the Country
The trustees of the Octavia Hill Birthplace Museum are disposing of its Harry Simpson Memorial Library in September, next month.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Piece I just wrote for Current Affairs. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
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The Massive Climate Lie That Will Destroy Human Civilization
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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Barnabas Calder @barnabascalder.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I've set out my alternative proposal for the Rotterdam Shift Embassy: www.dezeen.com/2026/08/03/r...
Article from Dezeen linked in the post.
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Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 14/07/2026
ABK co-founder Peter Ahrends dies aged 93
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ABK co-founder Peter Ahrends dies aged 93
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Alistair Fair @alistairfair.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I've co-organised a symposium with @c20society.bsky.social on 10 September to mark 80 years of the New Towns Act, and the launch of Elain Harwood's final major book, 'New Towns Mark One', which I edited (and the sequel to which I'm now writing). Details here: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
Market clock at Harlow on a building with blue and white striped tiles. To the right is a tower block
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University of Liverpool - PGR Development @uolpgrdevelopment.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
3MT® Final! Our next 3MT® finalist is Peter Williams from HSS with his presentation “Landscapes of Atomic Optimism by Dame Sylvia Crowe: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Nuclear Energy Infrastructure and Landscapes” #LivUni3MT
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 12/06/2026
And an equally enormous loss: EThOS remains down, with plans to resurrect only a hugely degraded version, without downloads. Access to the PhD theses here was crucial. I would always search it on a topic, because these PhD works can be really good. And they don't need to be a book to be cited.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/06/2026
NYT headline when the economy added 266,000 jobs under Biden vs. NYT headline when BLS says the economy added 172,000 jobs under Trump.
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Patrick Zamarian @pzamarian.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Northwards.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Patrick Zamarian @pzamarian.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Great. No more fingernails. #icehockey
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Patrick Zamarian @pzamarian.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The BBC's coverage of the Winter Olympics must be the worst in television history.
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Everyone Hates Elon @everyonehateselon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway…. 📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
At last an AI tool I can get behind “Upload an architectural render. Get back what it'll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November.” antirender.com
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Luca Csepely-Knorr @lucaknorr.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Very excited to host the wonderful Tim Waterman tomorrow at the Liverpool School of Architecture! His talk, ‘Reworlding: Planetarity and Future Imaginaries’, is open for all and you can also look around our new home! @sotauol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social www.liverpool.ac.uk/architecture...
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Reworlding: Planetarity and Future Imaginaries | School of Architecture | University of Liverpool
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David Luck @dluckarchivist.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
So, part of my job is to see what people are making of the history of our Hospital. Bethlem partly exists in the gothic, horror-adjacent end of history, and so attracts a certain kind of presentation. Restraints, gore, electrodes, I thought I'd seen it all. Until... ...I stumbled onto this book.
Front cover of 'Bethlem Hospital: A History of Care and Control' by Evelyn Cross. The image shows a Victorian (?) institution viewed through open gates. Two statues stand on the gate posts
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Barnabas Calder @barnabascalder.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Brilliant to see the BBC picking up Ranald Lawrence and Dean Hawkes' fabulously interesting and important #environmentalhumanities work on #HardwickHall. They measured solar gain to understand Elizabethan comfort tech. The original articles are hugely worth reading too. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
bbc.co.uk
'The past is an underused tool': An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm
In a deadly cold period known as the Little Ice Age, clever Elizabethan designs kept a magnificent stately home unusually warm – with lessons for how we can heat our own homes better.
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Geraint Franklin @geraintfranklin.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
It's been a long time in the making, so it's great to share a sneak peak of 'High-Tech Britain: Buildings of the Space Age', published by @batsfordbooks.bsky.social and @c20society.bsky.social on 5 March. Pre-order at www.batsfordbooks.com/book/high-te... 🤖
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Junjie Xi @jxi2024.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
More updates to come up soon.
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The Life and Death of Liverpool’s Chinatown: A Journey from Shanghai | Stories | School of Architecture | University of Liverpool
news articles created in terminal 4
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Barnabas Calder @barnabascalder.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Did anyone snap the Foster/Holcim Essential Homes prototype at the Venice Biennale 2023? If so might I be able to use your photo for an article? I'm not getting replies to my request for permission.
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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I have been working through @parismarx.com ’s guide to getting off US tech, slowly because I am so deep into the Apple world, but today’s events just gave me a big kick in the butt to get it done. disconnect.blog/getting-off-...
disconnect.blog
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
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Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
www.punchlistmag.com/p/what-the-s...
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What the Stahl House says about L.A.
For a cool $25m, the most famous of the Case Study designs can be yours
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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂 Booking available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.  August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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...
Flyer image for 'Down Under Webinar: Religion and Architecture in Australia', programme - 9.00 (CET) Welcome; 9.05 Practical and Active: Australian Religious Values from the Ground Up (Professor Katharine Massam - University of Divinity); 9.50 Building Faith in Australia's Capital: The Diplomatic Mosque and Other Architectural Narratives (Dr Md Mizanur Rashid - Deakin University); 10.35 Break; 10.45 Constructing Faith in the Antipodes - The Making of the Book (Dr Lisa Marie Daunt); 11.30 End. Free. KU Leuven / KADOC. Monday 8 December 2025 at 9.00 CET (8.00 GMT).
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
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Cross Street Architects @crossstarchitects.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
@wildtwin.bsky.social Great chatting with you today Jeff. Thanks for attending and talking with the first year students it was lovely to hear you talk about your work and processes. Thanks Stephen
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Patrick Zamarian @pzamarian.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Best buildings in Zurich, 2021-24 - sixteen projects, almost half of them retrofits. gutebauten.stadt-zuerich.ch
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Auszeichnung für gute Bauten der Stadt Zürich 2021–2024
Gutes Bauen hat in Zürich Tradition. Die Stadt zeichnet seit rund 80 Jahren regelmässig die besten Bauwerke und Freiräume aus
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Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Manchester historians! @historylabplus.bsky.social and @porticolibrary.bsky.social are uniting again for another History Open Mic Night! Come down on Dec 11th to hear brilliant speakers from the Manchester history scene on a range of topics - book below! www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...
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FastHistory — The Portico Library
Listen to a series of quickfire talks with specially invited guests from across the history and heritage sector, then take to the stage yourself to share your own historical passions!
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Robert Heinze @rheinze.eurosky.social · 21/09/2025
Zürich hat jetzt seine eigene M-Wort-Debatte, allerdings natürlich unter klassisch Zürcher Bedingungen mit direkt persönlichen Attacken auf einen guten Kollegen, Bernhard Schär
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Patrick Zamarian @pzamarian.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
One off the bucket list … I hiked from Manchester to Liverpool over the weekend. 71 kilometres. Won't be doing that again anytime soon.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 04/09/2025
*sigh* No, that’s just the effect of several centuries of rain through an iron grate. Nobody was wasting precious oil during a siege. they were throwing piss
A Reddit post with a wall with a black stain and the caption
Down a grate, defenders at the top of this tower would toss scalding hot grease down at their enemies. The stain is still on the wall centuries later.
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Patrick Zamarian @pzamarian.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
#AliceDavisHitchcock … how exciting!
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Patrick Zamarian @pzamarian.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/al...
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Alexandra Road Retrofit: Stop Potential Fuel Poverty, Mould, and Inequality
Camden Council’s proposed heating retrofit for the iconic Grade II* listed Alexandra Road Estate risks locking residents into permanently high bills, colder homes, damp and mould and greater inequalit...
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.
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