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Tom Wilkinson

6 months

I've just received my copies of my new book, Emergency Money: Notgeld in the Image Economy of the German Inflation 1914-1923, which will be published by @mitpress later this month:

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6 years

Woman masturbating death. Moche culture, Peru, 1-7th century

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4 years

the new government guidance on 'cancel culture' for schools is nuts

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5 years

As someone living with HIV who has seen what Tory cuts have done to sexual health services, my response to your message is: you can shove that ribbon up your arse and fuck off while you're doing it

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“The reality is that HIV has not gone away, it’s important to fight the stigma. You are not alone, we will stand with you.” Prime Minister @BorisJohnson shares his message with us to mark #WorldAIDSDay . Let’s #RockTheRibbon together and support people living with HIV.

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4 years

one of my students has introduced me to the extremely sinister kitsch of Franz Sedlacek, Austrian chemist and Nazi, who painted frightening scientists in his spare time and went missing on the eastern front in 1945

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7 years

So Lesbians and Gays for the Migrants have crashed the barriers and are now leading the Pride march 💪

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3 years

Our Lady of Altagracia, Dominican Republic

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4 years

The South Bank Centre plans to make 400 of its 577 staff redundant this week, &, when it reopens in 2021, to model itself on a start-up, with 90% of its spaces for rent and only 10% for art. There's an open letter of protest you can sign here:

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3 years

switzerland in colour - lido by Beda Hefti (!), pool specialist, in Gruebi, Switzerland. 1931 & recently restored

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1 year

since people are posting the Neom exhibition at Venice, here are some delicious details of how we will be living in the future

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3 years

Reminder that one of the most influential architects of the 19th century bulldozed this and replaced it with this

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4 years

something other than an endless headlong hurtle into misery is possible

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The first streets in the sky at the Spangen Estate in Rotterdam by Michiel Brinkman (father of Jan, who did the Van Nelle Factory) - from 1919! And entirely new to me.

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1 year

we've had the worst things that architects wear, but how about the best things - who are the best dressed architects? hard to beat Niemeyer imo

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2 years

it's easy to laugh at the petit booj 'lifestyle', and it is indeed horrendously vacuous, but let's see the educated middle class version. the man-type montage

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2 years

off to winter wonderland

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4 years

what in god's name is going on here

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7 years

Marta Minujin, 'The Parthenon of Books', 1983. Erected in Buenos Aires after the fall of the dictatorship & clad with formerly banned books

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4 years

I couldn't help but wonder... did my aversion to council housing mean I was just a massive fucking tory?

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5 years

The glass turbine hall of Fawley Power Station is quite stunning. It's being demolished:

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9 years

Just heard that Hilla Becher has died. RIP. One of the greatest artists of the 20th century. http://t.co/uqeit8JrlP

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4 years

Shipping containers!!! As jails!!! Call Archdaily!!! 😍

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Holy shit. This is from the Deepwater Horizon cleanup 10 years ago.

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1 year

@i_loathe_tweets the future!

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4 years

i know it's not really the salient point here, but wtf is that

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The Tomas Bata Memorial in Zlin, built in 1933 and restored last year after being converted into a concert hall in the 50s. It contains only the aircraft in which he died.

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5 years

amazing, tbh

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4 years

I did the tour around the Zollverein. It didn't disappoint - 1 of the most stunning bits of architecture I've seen. But the tour guide was an ex-miner who filled us in about the 4 hr commute (each way) from the surface to the face, & fishing colleagues' limbs from the machinery

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Stony Brook University Hospital is quite striking

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1 year

the future is shit

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2 years

I've been HIV+ for 10 yrs this year & tbh I barely ever think about it now, thanks to the incredible improvements in treatment (& the fact that treatment now prevents transmission), but the replies to this are a reminder that many people are still thick as shit on the subject.

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1 year

saarland university: i see your william mitchell and i raise you an otto hajek

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3 years

Mies when asked if Philip Johnson was 'an art historian or an architect?' 'Neither. Nothing at all.'

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1 year

Arno Lederer has died

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3 years

the apotheosis of suburbia

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5 years

A fave. Hans Heinrich Müller's Umspannwerk Humboldt in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. A Gothic tempietto for the god of electricity

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4 years

Swiss police photographer Arnold Odermatt pictured the country's elegant transport infrastructure as the scene of death and disaster (thanks @elliswoodman for showing me these)

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4 years

Salute this brave moron's hara kiri-style self-own all to prove Butler's point about anti-intellectualism

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2 years

I am going to design a street that is so activated

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1 year

On the fetishisation of decay in contemporary architecture, or, what's all this about

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4 years

10 buildings that I love... This is really hard so I'm going to start with the one I (maybe) love the most, the ADGB trades union school in Bernau. Thanks for nominating me @OSaumarezSmith

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3 years

Gottfried Böhm died yesterday. Visiting his Wallfahrtskirche was one of the very few highlights of last year

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Clemens Klotz (who did Prora) in the 1950s. Feels very now

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4 years

He's not on here at the moment so I can say this without embarrassing him, but I think that @entschwindet has written 2 of the most influential books on architecture of the last 10 years - & this influence is acknowledged far more rarely than it should have been

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3 years

Jürgen Wittdorf's 1960s DDR swimmers, to get you in the mood for the pools reopening @cath_slessor

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6 years

I'm a little bit in love with this. The Old Brooklyn Fire Headquarters by Frank Freeman, 1892. Like an Arts & Crafts Lloyds Building.

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6 years

the highlight of Venice for me was escaping from the infographics and crowds to Gino Valle's superb housing estate on Giudecca

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8 years

last night I got back from the bar & tried to describe a particular British man-type me & my friend identified

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4 years

Who wore it better? Burger King in a former substation in Nuremberg, built to power the spectacular light shows that accompanied Nazi rallies

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7 months

I know there are worse things going on in the world but it's insane that the british library has now been unusable for nearly 6 weeks

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4 years

Counterpoint: they're both shit

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2 years

Are there any modernist railway stations more delicious than Ottawa or Gyumri, Armenia? (This question is ambiguously rhetorical in an attempt to escape @entschwindet 's scorn for getting other people to do my homework.)

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2 years

The transformation of the Thyssen Trade Centre in Düsseldorf into (relatively) affordable housing is the best reuse of a commercial building as residential I've seen. It does help that it was pretty remarkable to begin with.

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Tom Wilkinson

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4 years

I have never really understood football shirt twitter, until now

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4 years

FC Vitebsk new kit vs El Lissitzky original h/t @francska1

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Tom Wilkinson

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6 years

@McCaineNL @QuilletteM And also completely normal for agents to tell nice lies to get rid of hopeless cases

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Tom Wilkinson

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2 years

On Tuesday the 7th of June, I'm giving a lecture at Birkbeck on contemporary architecture's obsession with decay

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3 years

We're at the stage of reaction now where actual *pickle factories* look like fascist mausoleums

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4 years

I am very happy to say that I'll be teaching at the @CourtauldStudy this autumn, where I'll leading the MA on art & design in the Weimar Republic while @schuldenfrei_r is away for the year

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2 years

Some highlights from a recent tour of Germany's most obscure towns

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4 years

50s Stuttgart. I preferred reconstruction when it wasn't pretending to be critical

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Tom Wilkinson

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6 years

Just went for a swim here. France built 700 'piscines tournesols' in response to their results in the '68 Olympics. Designed by Bernard Schoeller & engineer Thémis Constantinidis, they can be opened or closed according to the season

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4 years

#2 : Westminster Station. One of the most exciting spaces in London. I'm also tickled by the way the Hopkinses made the entrance to the seat of government a nightmarish piranesian dungeon, & then put the MPs in a dark satanic mill that squats on top of the shaft

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Tom Wilkinson

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2 years

Good news: I'll be publishing my book on German Notgeld (emergency money) with MIT in 2023, the 100th anniversary of the hyperinflation's peak. And it seems like the subject will turn out to be even more topical than I'd imagined...

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7 years

@marcusjdl And every one called Millie, Tillie, Ellie, Effie, or Sniffy

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4 years

Barrandov Terrace Swimming Club outside Prague by pool specialist Václav Kolátor. Opened in 1930 & now abandoned

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3 years

Dieter Roth prefers not to

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8 years

Today I've been looking at pictures of Mormon fonts

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4 years

Extraordinary square in Cologne, complete with a 15-storey tower, built as the HQ for the Gerling insurance company in the 50s by a bunch of Nazi architects led by Arno Breker. It feels extremely 'now'

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2 years

@lmartods angry 40-something dad with a greying beard & a fisherman beanie ramming his expensive pram into the back of someone's knees in the walthamstow railway arch 'roastery' because he's been staring at 20-something women dancing on tik tok instead of looking at the queue

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4 years

I hate this miserable country

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2 years

Enjoying Vittorio Mazzucconi's high-tech Parisian ruins (& I guess Edouard François did too)

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3 years

I'm happy to say I'll be working at Birkbeck next year, where I'll be teaching an MA module on modernity's waste spaces. We'll be looking at things like Heinrich Zille's Rubbish Collector, as well as sewers, dumps, slums, camps and prisons.

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1 year

@ChristopherMars in the future lawns will grow upside down too!

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4 years

Quite lovely, tbh

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7 years

What shall we call these ones then: Financialisation Heights? Crippling Debt Apartments? Wait, I've got it:

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4 years

Am Lokdepot, Berlin by Büro Robertneun, 2014

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Gidea Park

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somebody call Dezeen

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I regret to announce that I have been forced to do a list of 10 buildings I hate by @huwlemmey & @owenhatherley . I could just do a list of Victorian parish churches but I'll try to be a bit more imaginative. Some of them are going to be pretty obvious nonetheless

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Tom Wilkinson

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4 years

#2 Berlin Cathedral. From the 'pile it high' school of historicising ornament. Everything is out of scale and nothing makes any sense. Pretentious and oppressive. Why Modernism was right.

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4 years

#9 another obvious one, but this is probably the worst recent building in London. Puffs itself up like a hench graduate scheme banker in a skintight suit. Idiotic to allow it so far south of the cluster - will require about 5 more tall buildings to hide it

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3 years

Kuhn Fischer 🥵

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5 years

The world's largest intelligence service HQ opened in Berlin this yr. It's the size of 36 football pitches, took 12 yrs to build & cost €1 bn. Considering the aim of relocating from a rural site was to make the service more approachable, they've gone for an interesting aesthetic

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Tom Wilkinson

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10 months

I'm very happy to say that I'm going to be working at Karlsruhe for the next 3 years with @tweetissima ; my seminar this term will be on modernity's waste spaces

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Tom Wilkinson

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5 years

2009 sculpture by Peter Lenk on the former Berlin HQ of leftwing newspaper TAZ. It shows Kai Diekmann, editor of the rightwing tabloid Bild, which was located in the Springer building across the road.

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Tom Wilkinson

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6 years

The extraordinary Steiff Factory in Giengen an der Brenz, built in 1903 - perhaps the first entirely glazed curtain wall in the world (certainly the first double skinned one). Nicknamed the 'Jungfrauenaquarium' for the young women working inside.

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2 years

Some Berlin classics from a recent trip

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5 years

Has anyone written about this early pomo moment in the US (or maybe 'Empire Style')?

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3 years

Dolf Schnebli 👀

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3 years

who wants to look at something nice that doesn't have skinny little columns stuck all over it, eh

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4 years

Thinking about why I dislike architecture trying to be 'fun', & apart from my Loosian-Simmelian view of urban space, I just don't like mandated fun. I can't bear fun being imposed on me. It's the architectural equivalent of an icebreaker at an away-day.

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3 years

John Papworth, design for a greenhouse, 1834

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4 years

Burglar bond coming into its own. Pic by Friedrich Seidenstücker

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'Some violent bitter man, some powerful man Called architect and artist in, that they, Bitter and violent men, might rear in stone The sweetness that all longed for night and day' Anglo-Irish 'Big Houses' destroyed by the IRA during the revolutionary period.