If you build it ...

This totally fascinating and totally hella-cool chart works its way in relatively chronological order from the Neolithic—which, OK, I guess counts as an architectural style—to the increasingly scattered subdivisions of Post-Modernism, which by most accounts we are currently at what will eventually called the very end of. The examples here from each style don’t offer anything more than a general idea of what features and details define that style, but honestly: What on earth do you really need to know about any of it beyond the fact that there exists a style formally called Blobitecture?

A waning gibbous (according to Siri) moon over the north entrance to the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. 11:30 pm.

CedaRound: The crappy old YMCA sat on this spot when I was a kid

Here are some dramatic angles looming majestically between my parking spot and the theater for tonight’s SOLD OUT AGAIN PEOPLE SO BOOYAH! performance of Fuddy Meers.

Putting the meh in exhibmeht

There’s a tidy little Edward Hopper exhibit at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art featuring pieces on loan from the Whitney Museum in New York in exchange for the Grant Wood pieces lent from the CRMA for the Whitney’s current Grant Wood exhibit. 

The Hopper exhibit here is perfectly OK, but I much prefer the extant architecture from the Carnegie Library that was repurposed into the CRMA with its gloriously geometric Postmodern addition in the 1980s:

#CedaRound: downtown Cedar Rapids coolness