Enrique Ramirez
@enriqueramirez.bsky.social
Director @manifestinstitute
Historian of Things
Occasional Musician
Frances and Gilbert P. Schafer Visiting Professor
of Architecture/University of Michigan
Historian of Things
Occasional Musician
Frances and Gilbert P. Schafer Visiting Professor
of Architecture/University of Michigan
Her latest novel is quite good
October 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Her latest novel is quite good
Philippe Boudon’s Lived-in Architecture: Le Corbusier's Pessac Revisited (1972) is a good start. A good example of a post-occupancy study of an iconic modernist building.
September 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Philippe Boudon’s Lived-in Architecture: Le Corbusier's Pessac Revisited (1972) is a good start. A good example of a post-occupancy study of an iconic modernist building.
Yes … Cronon relies a lot on Von Thünen and Christaller. I also like David Blackbourn’s The Conquest of Nature, which links de/forestation to larger ideas about Prussia’s place in the world.
September 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Yes … Cronon relies a lot on Von Thünen and Christaller. I also like David Blackbourn’s The Conquest of Nature, which links de/forestation to larger ideas about Prussia’s place in the world.
Cronon’s Nature’s Metropolis comes to mind. As does Barbara Mundy’s book about waterworks in Tenochtitlan.
September 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Cronon’s Nature’s Metropolis comes to mind. As does Barbara Mundy’s book about waterworks in Tenochtitlan.
And another still: literaryhistoryofarchitecture.substack.com/p/causal-seq...
Causal Sequences
Hey sport. You connect the dots. You pick up the pieces.
literaryhistoryofarchitecture.substack.com
January 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
And another still: literaryhistoryofarchitecture.substack.com/p/causal-seq...
And another: open.substack.com/pub/literary...
Station to Station to Station
Along the Earth's Sensorium ....
open.substack.com
January 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
And another: open.substack.com/pub/literary...
