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writing about modernism in Ethiopia and Italy, building sustainably, Dean of the College of Architecture and Planning at University of Colorado Denver

Denver, CO
Joined April 2012
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David Rifkind
6 years
Cite your sources.
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David Rifkind
7 months
Happy birthday to the OG Brutalist Marcel Breuer. Two perspectives of the sublime @UNESCO hq in Paris (completed 1958) with Bernard Zehrfuss, Pier Luigi Nervi, Isamu Noguchi, and others. From the Syracuse University digital archive of Breuer’s papers.
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David Rifkind
8 months
Happy sesquicentennial birthday, Charles Holden, who led the design team for London Transport's brilliant interwar tube stations, bringing Art Deco cosmopolitanism to the metropolis and suburbs. Adams Holden & Pearson, St. James's Park Underground Station, London, 1924. @RIBApix
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David Rifkind
9 years
Charles Holden, section and elevation of Arnos Grove Underground station, London, 1932. @RIBA https://t.co/DsvIfoKa8h
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David Rifkind
8 months
Appreciating Helmut Jacoby's command of atmosphere in the renderings he completed for architects like I.M.Pei. Here is a 1961 perspective of the @EversonMuseum of Art and its plaza at Syracuse University from the collection at M+. Such great use of entourage for scale and depth.
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David Rifkind
8 months
Sketches of the Carrillo Gil Art Museum in Mexico City by Augusto Álvarez and Enrique Carral, commissioned by pediatrician and modern art collector Alvar Carrillo Gil in 1958. Drawings conserved in the Acervo de Arquitectura Mexicana, Facultad de Arquitectura, UNAM.
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David Rifkind
8 months
An architecture of joy, dignity, and service: Sam Mockbee's colored pencil, pastel, and watercolor sketches of Lucy’s House, Mason’s Bend, Alabama, from 2001. One of the iconic works of @ruralstudio, in the collection of the @cmoa.
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David Rifkind
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Rendered perspective of a compelling early scheme for the First Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana, by Eliel Saarinen (with Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames). Dated December 1939 in the Cranbrook Archives, it shows a serrated wall (sadly abandoned) and the pool (later demo'd).
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David Rifkind
8 months
Happy birthday, John Russell Pope. What a great sheet of sketches for the National Gallery of Art, commissioned by Andrew Mellon. Dig that axonometric. https://t.co/J3pICDRVT7
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David Rifkind
9 months
Buon compleanno, Leonardo da Vinci. His project for Milan Cathedral, like every sheet of architectural studies in his oeuvre, is a whole world of exploration, ideation, and invention.
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David Rifkind
9 months
Was thinking abt Daneri's post-war housing for INA-Casa, like the complex in via Bernabò Brea, Genoa, 1953-57. If Piazza Rossetti was the perfect hinge between the Bisagno and Foce, the later works are impressive for how they deal with the Ligurian topography. Archivio Daneri
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David Rifkind
10 years
Luigi Carlo Daneri, perspective of Piazza Rossetti development, Genoa, 1937. Archivio Daneri. http://t.co/hsv3Hrmz9J
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David Rifkind
9 months
Sad to hear of the death of Barbara Neski—pioneering modernist, legendary teacher, and Jersey girl—last week at age 97. Designer (with her partner and husband, Julian) of exquisite projects like the Marc and Judith Savage House, Amagansett, 1978-82.
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David Rifkind
10 months
I really dig the use of negative space in this rendered perspective of OMA's 1985 competition entry for the Morgan Bank Nederland building (a mix of offices and apartments) in Amsterdam. Like a Miesian pavilion carved out of a solid block. https://t.co/O4sQkCxfJX
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David Rifkind
1 year
Had a chance to write about the @BalHarbourShops popup store by @LOT_EK and #StudioZewde in the latest @ArchRecord. Shipping containers, supergraphics, and a portable tropical garden "in an ephemeral yet elegant machine for shopping."
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Architectural Record
1 year
Twenty-eight shipping containers create a portable version of Florida’s famed Bal Harbour Shops that combines industrial materials with elegant design.
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David Rifkind
1 year
We really need to bring back shaded elevation studies. Henri Ciriani turned a 1982 commission for a hospital kitchen in Paris into a full-blown workers club. From UIA International Architect, 1983.
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David Rifkind
1 year
Another perspective of Correa's brilliant Kanchanjunga apartments in Mumbai.
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David Rifkind
10 years
Charles Correa, section perspective of Kanchanjunga apartments, Mumbai, 1983. http://t.co/93GJp4GRPF http://t.co/MnSFF3KNBo
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David Rifkind
1 year
Time to get back to posting inspiring drawings. Going to start with a gorgeous collaged section perspective from the @DrawingMatter collection depicting the 1968 design for a school in La Spezia, Italy, by Superstudio. https://t.co/Kr3uZWq9I8
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David Rifkind
1 year
teaser...
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David Rifkind
1 year
Got to write a brief critique of the first #masstimber house in Miami-Dade County.
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Architectural Record
1 year
Designed by the husband-and-wife team behind Atelier Mey, House in a Garden serves as a living laboratory for its architects. https://t.co/VUUOh2z6Gm
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United Faculty of Florida
2 years
RT!🚨 Existing union members have until October 20th to convert to eDues before they are dropped as members. #SB256 ➡️ https://t.co/cXdrYx5uyF
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David Rifkind
3 years
Fendika is one of the most joyous places I’ve ever been. Bravo, Melaku!
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Fendika Cultural Center
3 years
I’m happy to share my TED talk at https://t.co/GfYLOFIT6M. It is the first TED talk given in Amharic (with English translation by Mehret Mandefro), about my love for Eskista and Ethiopian culture, ...#tedtalk #fendikaculturalcenter #melakubelay #ethiopia
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