Alexander Davidson

Doctoral researcher (@LivUni) and academic teacher (@HTW_Berlin), specialising in #ArchitcturalPlastics and #Environmentalism

[Alexander Davidson @plasticsportent]

Map of South Africa incorporated in Waterite panels created for the South Africa Travel Bureau (1950) of 70 Piccadilly by James Cubitt & Partners and Sergei Kadleigh.

(c) Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Pix (photo credit: Stewart Bale Ltd.)

[Alexander Davidson @plasticsportent]

The Routledge will release a paperback edition of the Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics in the 20th July.

https://t.co/DTwYkgEH88

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland.

There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.

And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
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[MikeD @mjdaly57]

Imogen Walker - Labour MP for Hamilton and Clyde. Imogen is married to the Labour Svengali Morgan McSweeney. She’s had a varied career but appears to have found her niche in the inner sanctum of Starmer’s Labour Party. As well as undertaking her role as an MP, Imogen also works as the Parliamentary Private Secretary for Chancellor Rachel Reeves. Imogen received the following donations to help her get elected:

£10,000 from the Trevor Chinn funded/Morgan McSweeney run consortium @LabourTogether

£15,000 from Labour donor Gary Lubner.

With her £93,904 salary, expenses and donations, Imogen is doing very well financially as an MP.

On July 9th, Imogen voted for the Universal Credit and PIP Bill that will result in sick and disabled people facing further hardship in their lives. Imogen also voted to stop the #WinterFuelPayment for pensioners.

[Alexander Davidson @plasticsportent]

The inherent social conservatism of a supposedly liberal and tolerant nation state occasionally beggars belief

[Alexander Davidson @plasticsportent]

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[Alexander Davidson @plasticsportent]

I'm in the process of migrating my social media from this app over to Threads and Bluesky. Am I the only one who remembers when an entire subsect of my friends bailed on Facebook due to its role of spreading fake news and first electing Donald Trump?

[Alexander Davidson @plasticsportent]

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

[Alexander Davidson @plasticsportent]

I was sent to and have returned from Coventry.

[Architects’ Journal @ArchitectsJrnal]

‘A boon for landfill’: seven buildings we lost in 2024 https://t.co/SuHEJZ5rIN

[Otto Saumarez Smith @OSaumarezSmith]

News the YMCA are moving out of St Giles Hotel in February, putting this zigzagging corduroy concrete behometh at risk, (Ellsworth Sykes Partnership, 1977). I'm glad little of London looks like this, but thrill to its bloodymindedness, & its replacement will make London blander.

[C20 Society @C20Society]

BREAKING NEWS // Angela Rayner has granted permission for M&S to demolish their Oxford Street flagship store, overturning a decision by the previous Secretary of State.

The chance to set a vision for a more sustainable and creative Britain that reuses its built-heritage has been squandered. Green growth? Not on this evidence.

[Sarah Gould @SarahScottGould]

Today is "la rentrée" in France, and I'm giving a talk on Turner and pollution this Wednesday online @TurnersHouse

[Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) @SAH1365]

From Cold War China to earliest Iran and U.S. New Deal to late-colonial Mozambique, SAH Virtual 2024 will visit every continent connecting our constructed world to cultural, political, and economic issues past and present. Learn more and register: https://t.co/NAuIqGlSZ8

[Alexander Davidson @plasticsportent]

The only discordant note in terms of Acland Burghley's plan was the Drama and Performing Arts Block, which I discovered had been developed by Gollifer Langston Architects in 2007. Aesthetically, it was unremarkable, but it disturbed what had been a very efficient plan.

[Alexander Davidson @plasticsportent]

Acland Burghley School (1963-67)

[Ula Merie : عُلا @UlaMerie]

I am excited to share my chapter 'The First Iraq Architecture School between Nationalism, Modernity and Identity' which is part of the 'The History of Architectural Education in the Middle East and North Africa' published by @EdinburghUP

[Alexander Davidson @plasticsportent]

RIP Greggs menu. You are the only portentous symbol of a global IT crisis here in Liverpool.

Even a simple Greggs menu can has epic Blue Screen of Death

[Dr Ruth Alison Clemens @RuthieClems]

Just found out that Taylor & Francis has sold access to all @routledgebooks data to Microsoft to train their AI. This includes my publications. I get no payment for using my research labour, never mind the bigger problems of this energy-intensive extractivism...

[Alexander Davidson @plasticsportent]

The Curse of 2019 is strong with this one...
Disposed Prime Ministers generally keep a low profile once they have been evicted from 10 Downing Street, so this misjudgement is the icing on the cake in a very chaotic and inadvertently amusing campaign.

https://t.co/wHvRlGT3AM