Max Chavez
@maxchavez.bsky.social
📍Chicago Preservationist and architectural historian 🏳️🌈 ART DECO WORLD available for pre-order: https://linktr.ee/maxechavez
The filming locations in this show are so egregious to the point of distraction. I watched this exact scene with a friend who has never even been to DC and he immediately clocked it as incorrect.
TomTom@tomtomchi.bsky.social · 3d agoWatching the Pan Am bombing series on Netflix and am losing my mind at how obvious it is that the DC scenes are filmed in Toronto. Like yes this is famously what Washington DC looks like.
Check out the link below to see an interior preview of my new book and be sure to pre-order at the link in my bio! www.ribabooks.com/Art-Deco-Wor...
Art Deco World: The International Legacy of the Architecture and Design Movement
Buy Art Deco World: The International Legacy of the Architecture and Design Movement by Chavez, Max from the RIBA online Bookshop. ISBN 9781915722904
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Max Chavez@maxchavez.bsky.social · 2mo agoSo excited to announce the release of my book ART DECO WORLD! A global survey of the beloved style’s past 100 years from inception to rebirth (to rebirth again!), it will be released September 1. U.S. and int’l readers can register for a pre-order link here: www.routledge.com/Art-Deco-Wor...
Weather sucked today so I stayed in and made vampiros tacos, esquites, salsa, and rice (pico de gallo and pasta salad not pictured) from scratch instead 🫃🏽
The summer of cooking continues: tonight, roasted pork belly with a pretty spectacular nam jim jaew, if I do say so myself.
Required reading 🫵🏻
Max Chavez@maxchavez.bsky.social · 2mo agoSo excited to announce the release of my book ART DECO WORLD! A global survey of the beloved style’s past 100 years from inception to rebirth (to rebirth again!), it will be released September 1. U.S. and int’l readers can register for a pre-order link here: www.routledge.com/Art-Deco-Wor...
So excited to announce the release of my book ART DECO WORLD! A global survey of the beloved style’s past 100 years from inception to rebirth (to rebirth again!), it will be released September 1. U.S. and int’l readers can register for a pre-order link here: www.routledge.com/Art-Deco-Wor...
So excited to announce the release of my book ART DECO WORLD! A global survey of the beloved style’s past 100 years from inception to rebirth (to rebirth again!), it will be released September 1. U.S. and int’l readers can register for a pre-order link here: www.routledge.com/Art-Deco-Wor...
I’ll be on the Chicago Architecture Center’s Design News Roundtable on June 30! Buy your ticket today to hear me and my fellow panelists chat about Chicago’s current headlines in architecture, urbanist, and preservation news. www.architecture.org/events-progr...
Design News Roundtable: Mid-Year Review
<p>Join us for the first Design News Roundtable of 2026, the place for freewheeling discussion on our changing city with architects, designers, planners, advocates and local observers.</p>
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I’ll be on the Chicago Architecture Center’s Design News Roundtable on June 30! Buy your ticket today to hear me and my fellow panelists chat about Chicago’s current headlines in architecture, urbanist, and preservation news. www.architecture.org/events-progr...
Design News Roundtable: Mid-Year Review
<p>Join us for the first Design News Roundtable of 2026, the place for freewheeling discussion on our changing city with architects, designers, planners, advocates and local observers.</p>
architecture.org
I can’t think of a single piece of media that has made me sob harder than that Hacks finale. A perfect show.
The Marianne Theater (1942) in Bellevue, Kentucky, by architect Paul B. Kiel.
Went to Cincinnati this weekend for the first time. You know I had to make this my priority: Cincinnati Union Terminal (1933) by Roland A. Wank of Fellheimer & Wagner and Paul Philippe Cret.
Biblioteca Palafoxiana (1773) in Puebla, the first public library in the Americas.
The spectacular buildings of Puebla’s historic city center, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.
Chapel of the Rosary (c. 1650-1690) in Puebla, Mexico, located inside Templo de Santo Domingo.
The terrific variety of architecture centered around Fuente de la República, including the first building pictured, Edificio El Moro, formerly the tallest building in the city and one whose Art Deco character has sadly been taken away.
El Frontón (1929) by Teodoro Kunhardt and Joaquín Capilla.
Still posting through Mexico City stuff, like this Brutalist building that’s the office of local newspaper El Universal.
The highlight of this market is arguably the giant “Historia de México” by Isamu Noguchi, his first public commission, located on an empty upper floor of the market between two quiet office spaces.
Max Chavez@maxchavez.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe absolutely incredible Mercado Abelardo Rodríguez (1934) by Antonio Muñoz, filled with mural work by students and contemporaries of Diego Rivera (and overseen by Rivera himself).
The absolutely incredible Mercado Abelardo Rodríguez (1934) by Antonio Muñoz, filled with mural work by students and contemporaries of Diego Rivera (and overseen by Rivera himself).
Turns out when you stop cars and buses from moving for over an hour, the city gets incredibly peaceful.
I’d also like to make it clear the below carnitas are from an adorable counter called Los Tacos Michigan.
Max Chavez@maxchavez.bsky.social · 3mo agoBut that’s not all: terrific carnitas, mole in Puebla, shrimp and scallop aguachile, and even more tacos.
Break from posting buildings to post some of the best things I ate on my trip: menudo, grilled octopus, piles of tacos, and tuna tostadas.
Palacio de Bellas Artes (1904-1934) by Adamo Boari and Federico Mariscal.
