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Alexander Luckmann

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PhD candidate, German & US modern architecture @ UCSB | religion, preservation, environment | he/him views mine With jazz and conversation From the foot of Mount Belzoni

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · Mar 11

Time to bring a twitter series to Bluesky: Given the incredible number of 20th-century churches in Northrhine-Westphalia (the topic of my dissertation), I’m going post one or two every day. None of these images are mine, they're all credited in the alt text, and I'll take any down if asked

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 26m

Loving the third Google review of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland

Three reviews of vineland:
(five stars): I really enjoyed this origami of a story. There are tender & sweet sections, steamy sections, and plain ol' weird sections. Every dog has his day, but, if you're a good dog, you just ...

one star: I gave up on this book about half way through.
While give Pynchon credit for a lot of imagination,it is a disjointed mess! I think author must have been on Hallucinogenics. It skips ...

five stars: Vangie always delivers excellent, fast, And friendly service! Vineland never disappoints for a nice glass of wine and a bite to eat!

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 1h

#158: Karl Wilhelm Ochs, Church of the Good Shepherd, Gütersloh (1960-62)

A red-brick church phtograpged in bright fall light. The sanctuary building is to the left. Narrow wooden piers divide a window wall. To the right, a rectangular church tower has openings that start 2/3 of the way up. Photo via Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Gütersloh, https://www.ekgt.de/kirchen/zum-guten-hirten/.

A sanctuary with two rows of wooden pews either side of a central aisle. Light enters through a wall of clear windows on the far side. The ceiling is slightly curved, and made up of a grid of steel beams. The altar is simple and slightly raised. Photo by Subbass1 via Wikimedia Commons.

A view back from the laltar to the entrance. Similarly, a simple interior with whitewashed walls. Simple round black lights hang from the ceiling. Photo by Subbass1 via Wikimedia Commons.

Perspective sketch of church and interior by Ochs. From Architecture Museum of TU Berlin, https://architekturmuseum.ub.tu-berlin.de/.

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 23h

#157: Aloys Sonntag, St. Maria Immaculata, Siegen (1959)

The entrance to a church. There is a large flat wall above the entrance, seemingly stucco, which has a line-drawing sgraffito of a person with windmilling arms. There is a short roof projecting in front of this wall, like a bicyclist's hat. Above the roof a cross is visible. There is a cobbled square in front of the church. Photo by Christof Rose via Baukunst NRW, https://www.baukunst-nrw.de/objekte/Gartenstadt-Das-vordere-Wenscht--2034.htm

A sanctuary. There are two rows of wooden pews. The walls are stucco, the flat ceiling concrete. The altar is slightly raised. There are two floor-to-ceiling windows blocks either side of the altar. There is a mosaic of Christ with stigmata above the altar. Photo by PeOe via Wikimedia Commons

Stained-glass windows composed of grids of squares, each of them made up of four squares. These are grisaille or light blue/green/tan. Three dark, dramatic glass panels stand out against this subtle background. Photo via Pastoraler Raum Siegen-Freudenberg, https://pr-si-fr.de/heilige-familie-kirchen-historie-der-gemeinden/

A view of the church's exterior from further. One sees the sweep of the side, with narrow columns separating the ceiling-high windows, and the sgraffito front. Photo by PeOe via Wikimedia Commons.

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 1h

#158: Karl Wilhelm Ochs, Church of the Good Shepherd, Gütersloh (1960-62)

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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 2h

I’m a doctoral student at TXST.

The feeling on campus is worse than you imagine. Faculty afraid to speak, grad students feel like they could lose their entire futures if they draw the university president’s ire, undergrads openly worrying about the complete loss of a fundamental right.

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 17h

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 1h

Danke!!

Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 1h

I even have a lot of those, but haven’t found mentions yet… Thank you for these suggestions though!

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 2h

That’s interesting! In this case I’m pretty sure it’s just the sheet/stamps themselves - as it’s a donation model (if you were being housed, you wouldn’t have to purchase stamps). The mechanism remains mysterious though

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 2h

1951. Es ist eine karitative Maßnahme von einer Siedlungstagung der kat. Kirche

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 2h

Vielleicht noch nützlich - auf dem Rasterblatt, wo Marken aufgeklebt werden konnten, steht “Marke an Marke, Stein auf Stein, dann wird das Haus schnell fertig sein”

Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 2h

Rasterkasten eingeklebt werden können (Bild 3). Ich nehme an, dass diese für Spenden verkauft wurden - aber kennt jemand diesen Vorgang genau? Hat Spender*in das Rasterblatt umsonst bekommen und dann peu à peu die Marken gekauft, um das Bild aufzubauen? Wurden die Marken durch die Post geschickt?

Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 2h

Wissenschaftliches Rätsel: Ich habe im Archiv ein “Klebemarkenblatt” gefunden, wo alle Marken im Raster zusammengesetzt das Bild eines Hauses darstellen (Nachzeichnung Bild 1). Auf der Rückseite sind die Marken 1-100 nummeriert (Bild 2). Separat ist ein zweites Blatt, wo die Marken in nummerierte…

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 8h

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 22h

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 22h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 2d

Going through some Life and Look magazines from the mid-60s and this page from a “how the rich live” non-story story is just tremendous. The wealthy SHOULD be eating at the Four Seasons and giving joyrides to nuns instead of doing weird, dark social experiments with poors on their YouTube channel

Black-and-white magazine page with small photo of man and woman being waited on at restaurant and half-page photo of shirtless man driving a motorboat with several grinning nuns in habits and sunglasses, spraying lots of water. Caption “Above, Frank and Phyllis Jameson dine at the Four Seasons on a recent New York trip. He does not mind paying high prices, he says, provided what he gets is ‘just the very best.’ Below, Jameson, a Protestant, gives well-received respite to nuns who supervised 40 boys from Roman Catholic home on an all day outing aboard his schooner.”

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 23h

#157: Aloys Sonntag, St. Maria Immaculata, Siegen (1959)

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 2d

#156: Joachim Georg Hanke, St. Bruder Konrad, Gütersloh-Spexard (1970-74)

Aerial view of a church. The church is built of concrete but has a very prominent aluminum-capped tower. The sanctuary has a roof with multiple different levels and clerestory windows between. The whole is in a green location near a field. Photo by Heimatverein Spexard via Die Glocke, https://www.die-glocke.de/lokalnachrichten/bruder-konrad-kirche-in-guetersloh-feiert-50-weihefest-1715098568

A sanctuary with walls of yellow-brown brick. Multiple ceiling planes are stacked above each other and seem to converge above the altar. Light enters through clerestory windows between the ceiling planes. To the left is a mezzanine with organ above a chapel. Photo by Rüdiger Maas via Rumabel, https://www.kirchen-galerie.de/de/?m=kirche&p=16774.

A view back from the altar toward the sanctuary entrance, above which light streams in through clerestory windows. Photo by Rüdiger Maas via Rumabel, https://www.kirchen-galerie.de/de/?m=kirche&p=16774.

A concrete church with a prominent rectangular concrete bell-tower whose top consists of aluminum-paneled openings facing in each direction, looking almost like a steam ship exhaust pipes. The entrance is through a small church square to the left. Photo by Hagar66 via Wikimedia Commons.

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 23h

The Bellinghams with arrow from Bellingham père to Jobe and Bellingham mère to Jude

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 1d

So much of this happening on Twitter. Actual fascists having their reputations whitewashed just because they posted a couple of things.

Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 3d

No, you do not have to hand it to Tucker Carlson, MTG, or any white supremacist who suddenly found compassion for Palestinian children

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 1d

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 3d

If you:

1. Go to chrome://flags
2. Type in "AI" in the Search Flags bar
3. Turn all the "Defaults" to "Disabled"

You can turn off ALL the AI bullshit in Chrome.

Here's a demonstration
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How to Remove AI Mode from Google Chrome URL/Address Bar

YouTube video by Droidwin

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 1d

From the Uni-Bibliothek Library Leipzig exhibition on Wilhelm Wundt