It was an odd conversation over a backyard barbeque. One side started talking about the increasing waistlines of various people. The other side was talking […]
The changing economy and its effects on the retail streetscape may be best studied in the pre-war and post-war streetscape: pre and post First World […]
The American Institute of Steel Construction published a story I wrote for their monthly newsletter’s ” Bridge of the Month” feature. The story follows: Waddell […]
A recent editorial cartoon depicted Illinois as an airport. In the departures gate were the 2016 Olympic Games, a variety of major trade shows that […]
While early industrialists had grand visions of mechanized buildings and cities that walked, many of those ideas were whimsical at face value. Mind you, when […]
A previous post described “if walls could talk”, but what about if buildings could walk? It’s not that far fetched an idea. Taking cues from […]
Just to wrap up the past couple posts: When North American cities were first developing, we commuted on foot. It had its limitations, was endured […]
A colleague described a project in Atlanta years ago. It was a building sited off of an expressway. Although the building was envisioned to have […]
Time was, driving was a fun recreation. From a casual Sunday excursion, to a cross country trip, to something energetic like Nascar racing, the experience […]
Many early-modern architectural theoreticians were impressed by inventions of the machine age. Some, like French Architect Le Corbusier, promoted the concept of architecture as a […]