Hillhead Library, Glasgow, 2025

Featuring a "large decorative concrete cantilevered canopy of abstract cubist motifs," according to the listing documents.

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#photography #dslrphotography #concrete #glasgow #modernism #urbanphotography #urban #architecture #architecturephotography #sculpture

Concrete breath in silent lines,
walls that think in empty space,
geometry forgetting itself—
light folding into stillness.

A staircase drawn in absence,
windows like paused thoughts,
architecture not built, but sensed
between the margins of air.

#minimalistarchitecture #abstractarchitecture #concretepoetry #modernism #architecturalpoetry #minimaldesign #spaceandlight #urbanminimalism #quietdesign #formandvoid

Stevens reveals that true intimacy is not about losing yourself in another person, but about using their presence to see your own identity clearly against the dark.

He shows that when two people share a deep, quiet connection, they strip away the chaotic illusions of the outer world and create a clean, singular space where the self can finally feel real and defined.

#poetry #american #modernism #writing #literature

Sussex House / Detail
Link structure joining Sussex House to the former Pearson House
#architecture #photography #modernism #monochrome #brighton
https://flic.kr/p/2skjv9V
My piece exploring national identity, literary history, and landscape in T.S. Eliot's work is out now in the 2026 T.S. Eliot Studies Annual. I worked on various versions of this over several years and am glad to see it out in the world at last. (Behind a pay wall, unfortunately.) #modernism

Literature, Nation, and Region...

Multi – Culted

Trigger warnings. Relatively honest thoughts about multiculturalism. Next on News at 5, "man beats dead horse." Stay tuned.

https://vianegativa6.wordpress.com/2026/06/20/multi-culted/

Multi – Culted

Trigger warnings. Relatively honest thoughts about multiculturalism. Next on News at 5, “man beats dead horse.” Stay tuned.

Via Negativa

This is what a trendy architect's office looked like in around 1935. I saw it at the Sonneveld House on a recent trip to Rotterdam. I love Modernism, and this is Modernism at its very peak.

#Photography #Architecture #History #Modernism #Netherlands