After 25 years of running this blog under various names ? all of which can be lumped under the "Archidose" monicker ? I've decided to shut it down, moving this hobby, this labor of love, to Substack, which I have used since mid-2021 and where I will continue to send out weekly newsletters focused on architecture books, but in a new format. (You can subscribe to my newsletter here or on Substack.) So, this isn't "goodbye" as much as it is "see you in your inbox." Grayer and hopefully wiser: me, John Hill, from the mid-1990s until today
Besides thinking something along the lines of, Wait! 25 years", you also may be wondering, Why stop now" The now, January 2024, is because I happen to like fives, it turns out ? so much so that every significant thing related to this blog has occurred in five five-year intervals (this is by chance, not by design, I swear):1999: Started A Weekly Dose of Architecture (with a post about the Kimbell Art Museum)2004: Started A Daily Dose of Architecture (with a post about the World Trade Center Memorial Design Competition)2009: Started working with World-Architects and got my first book deal (I was out of work at the time, so the writing that I began doing as a hobby in 1999 turned into my primary focus as of 2009)2014: Stopped A Weekly Dose of Architecture (complete with five bullet points on why)2019: Started A Daily Dose of Architecture Books (five more bullet points!) 2024: Stopped Archidos...