Robert Proctor
@rproctor.bsky.social
Architectural historian of the twentieth century.
Robert Neel Proctor is an American historian of science and Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University, where he is also Professor by courtesy of Pulmonary Medicine. While a professor of the history of science at Pennsylvania State University in 1999, he became the first historian to testify against the tobacco industry. .. more
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Robert Proctor
@rproctor.bsky.social
· May 30
Percy Thomas | UWP
www.uwp.co.uk
My book is finally published! Percy Thomas: Modern Architecture as a National Service. www.uwp.co.uk/book/percy-t...
Interesting. Something we always worry about on our conservation course. But most of conservation jobs seem to be about fundraising, enthusing or organising people, managing projects and budgets.
There are some very long public ones in Siena, a town that understands civic life more than most.
First part of a game of exquisite corpse; what would you put next? ...
Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both
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Idea for a work of fiction: Gertrude Jekyll's cloying and smug Home and Garden about Munstead Wood, but with demonic ghosts, or murders. archive.org/details/home...
Ours are "units". After 12 years I still often say "modules" by mistake.