Peter Coffman
@TweetsCoffman
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Architectural Historian, History & Theory of Architecture @Carleton_U. Pilgrim. Photographer. Occasionally a writer. Photos mine unless otherwise credited.
Ottawa
Joined June 2019
I had some wonderful adventures on my sabbatical. But the single best day was one year ago today, when I awoke in Lunenburg to find the mist rolling in from the harbour. Skipped breakfast, grabbed the camera bag. ❤️
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The PM thinks we should vacation in 🇨🇦 more. I'm all in. Here's the first of several blogs about Canadian places well worth visiting. My touchstone, as always, will be cool architecture. Feel free to add to the list!. #VacationInCanada.
carleton.ca
Fort Macleod, Alberta. By Peter Coffman It might mean changing your summer vacation plans to stay here in Canada and explore the many national and
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In case you missed it by accident rather than design: the public talk I gave for @HeritageOttawa last week is now online:. "The Abbot of Kingsmere: Mackenzie King and his Ruins". Please re-post or share the link if you know anyone who might be interested.
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RT @HeritageOttawa: Get a brief taste of our upcoming FREE LECTURE by Peter Coffman @TweetsCoffman and join us on Wednesday, January 22 via….
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RT @HeritageOttawa: Our next FREE LECTURE takes a fascinating look at the architectural ruins built by William Lyon Mackenzie King at his K….
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Part 2 of my podcast with Alex Bulmer is now live! . How do you experience architecture if you can't see it? With your ears, your nose, your feet, your fingertips. #Architecture.#Accessibility.#Blindness.
carleton.ca
How do you experience architecture if you can't see it? In Part 2 of my conversation with Alex Bulmer, we visit St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in downtown
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Here's an example. This is so far from reality that it's laughable. Is this person lying? Deluded? A bot? I honestly don't get it.
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Another story on Carleton's financial challenges (and by extension, those of Ontario universities in general). What's really striking is the comments, almost all of which seem to have been written by people who truly hate universities.
ottawacitizen.com
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My latest podcast, in which blind theatre artist/writer/teacher Alex Bulmer discusses how she experiences architecture and place with every sense except sight. I think everyone interested how we design spaces should hear this.
carleton.ca
Seen any interesting buildings lately? What if you literally couldn’t see them? What if you could only experience buildings through your other senses? How
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Stagnant goverment funding, reduced & frozen tuition, new limits on international student enrollment - it's all hitting the fan now. Carleton warns of 'significant measures' as deficit balloons.
cbc.ca
Carleton University will soon need to take 'significant measures' to balance its budget, according to a letter the Ottawa institution recently sent out to staff and students.
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In our 2nd-year core course, 'Experiencing Architecture', we've been discussing tactility. We visited the wonderful @MuseumofNature this morning, which offers some vivid experiences of touch. (Are we allowed to post about something other than politics today?)
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This is my 100th blog post on our departmental website! And it's one that gives me special pride, because it's about two of our grads and the important work they're doing at either end of the country:.
carleton.ca
By Peter Coffman It’s hard to find two towns in Canada further apart than Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, and Dawson City, Yukon. But they have two striking
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A very great loss, of a man who made an exceptional contribution and left a transformational legacy.
cbc.ca
Murray Sinclair, the Anishinaabe senator and renowned Manitoba lawyer who led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, has died.
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Great questions asked by John M. Richardson. I've asked myself every one of them - some of them almost daily.
ottawacitizen.com
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Ready and waiting. here's hoping we get more than our usual 6-8 kids. 🙁
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He spoke daily with the dead. He read poetry and wrote books on economics. He served as Prime Minister for 21 years. And he built ruins - places where the imagination is invited to come out and play. W.L. Mackenzie King was the ultimate #Halloween PM. 🎃👻😱
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RT @TweetsCoffman: It's Hallowe'en month!. If there's even just one building in the whole country that's haunted, it's surely this one. ….
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The Grand Theatre in Dawson City, Yukon, is a 1961 replica of the 1899 original. It's such a perfect replica that, I'm told, the ghosts that haunted the old theatre have glided seamlessly into the new one. 👻🎃😱
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