Almost to the week last year I blogged about the 104th birthday of Oscar Niemeyer , the Brazilian  modernist architect who cemented his rep...

22 boxes and counting When I first sojourned in Chicago for the spring 2001 quarter, and then returned again to teach and live in fall...

Grades are in, and now it's letters of recommendation time, a few more graduate projects to read, and final preparations for the new qu...

With its first 12 floors accessible only to men, the Downtown Athletic Club appears to be a locker room the size of a Skyscraper , definitiv...