MrAbercrombie
@mrabercrombie.bsky.social
Scottish conservation architect - posts mostly about old books and old buildings…
⏰ Reminder: Join us on Monday for our next lecture, ‘If a landscape ‘speaks’, can we hear it?’, with speaker Professor Aonghus MacKechnie 📅 10 November, 6:30 pm 📍 Augustine United Church, Edinburgh (wheelchair accessible) 💻 Also streamed live via Zoom 🎟 £6 / £2 students: buff.ly/pPDEItf
Looking for a reasonably priced second-hand copy of J Mordaunt Crook’s “Greek Revival” - full hardback version and not the short 64-pager published by Country Life. If anyone comes across one, do let me know…
'Building Modern Scotland' exists! Publication date is 6 Feb; it'll be available Open Access (free) online then, & in print. Big thanks to all co-authors inc. (on here) @lynncabrams.bsky.social @vawright10.bsky.social, & funder @leverhulme.bsky.social. I'll trail some themes in the coming week...
@mrabercrombie.bsky.social great potted history of Provand's Lordship tonight. Thank you.
Want to dive deeper? Join us for a fascinating evening exploring the building's restoration with @mrabercrombie.bsky.social: 🗓️ Thursday, 23rd January ⏰ 7.30pm 📍 Glasgow & Zoom 🎟️ Tickets: £6 / Students £2 / Season Ticket for 5 Lectures: £25 🎟️ Book now on Eventbrite: https://buff.ly/41dlmQM
Provand’s Lordship with SCOTT ABERCROMBIE
Join us for a talk with Scott Abercrombie about Glasgow's oldest residential building
buff.ly
New year new book - A History of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery by Duncan Thomson 🤓
Any recommendations for favourite architecture / conservation adjacent documentaries - looking to line up some inspirational watching for the break! #architect #architecture @alistairfair.bsky.social @about-buildings.bsky.social
Looking to pick up an Aalto monograph/biography, only have a couple of shorter volumes currently… any recommendations for which one to go for? (cc @about-buildings.bsky.social @barnabascalder.bsky.social)
Bargain just now on the @vadundee.bsky.social shop… Kenneth Frampton on Kengo Kuma, don’t mind if I do! #Architecture
Nice to pop down to London last week and pick up a conservation citation for our work at Provand’s Lordship - and to meet Kevin McCloud, who was as lovely as you’d hope!
First afternoon down of a long weekend in London - lovely wander round with @about-buildings.bsky.social for company! Now trying out @honestburgers.bsky.social for a solo dinner…
I’m off to London this coming week for the Stone Federation Awards and have a couple of days either side to explore, any recommendations for good new buildings (or old favourites) to see are very much welcomed…
A gig at the Hydro means an excuse to walk up and down St Vincent Street en route west, for my money Glasgow’s best street, and home to one of its finest buildings… (albeit in need of some TLC)
Sleep Token at the @ovohydro.bsky.social tonight, been waiting for this gig for a long time! youtu.be/gN9A19pu8Wk?...
Sleep Token - Atlantic (Visualiser)
YouTube video by Sleep Token
youtu.be
Eric Watt bequeathed his photos to SIHS and to Glasgow Life. These are the Scottish industry scenes: www.sihs.co.uk/gallery/
Gallery - Scottish Industrial Heritage Society
sihs.co.uk
Got to see this Thomsonesque house in Dalmuir first hand eventually the other day, completed after his death by his partner - the same house type can also be found in Thomsonesque developments in Dullatur and Lenzie 🤓 #GreekThomson
Every couple of months or so I rewatch this documentary - typically now as an accompaniment to some late night drawing work - I may be biased as Sullivan is my favourite American architect, but this is an excellent and inspirational doc youtu.be/aAZEM-hloTM?...
Louis Sullivan - The Struggle for American Architecture
YouTube video by Inu Doge
youtu.be
New / old song of the day… A Flock of Seagulls, randomly spat out by the Spotify algorithm!
Spent a bit of my Monday evening killing time in Lennoxtown library, I came across this book of Eric Watt photographs by Glasgow Museums. It’s got some fab photos in it, very easy to lose an hour in…
Glasgow yesterday, looking down West George St towards St George’s Tron… was a bit to late to catch the sun rising behind it, which is always a great wee moment
Recently we went down to Manchester for an office trip - one of the things that stood out were these inflatable artworks which are dotted throughout the city, wee moments of joy and weirdness - would love to see something similar in Glasgow!
In order to get a bit of content going in this place I’m gonna retrospectively post some recent and not so recent stuff I reckon… apologies in advance!
Hello Bluesky! It’s been a funny old week… the nice bit was picking up this guy, the Glasgow Institute of Architects award for Conservation, for our work at Provand’s Lordship.
