Blair Kamin, for 30 years the architecture critic – and Pulitzer Prize winner – at the Chicago Tribune, has teamed up with Lee Bey, his former rival at the Sun-Times, to publish “Who Is the City For? Architecture, Equity and the Public Realm in Chicago.” It’s a collection of 55 Kamin...
The first chapter of Blair Kamin’s new book, “Who Is the City For?” compares and contrasts the architectural aspirations of two former presidents. One’s a very visible dust-up over Donald Trump’s 20-foot signage for the Trump International Hotel and Tower, overlooking Chicago’s Riverwalk....
On Monday I had one of the most interesting conversations of 2022, with former Chicago Tribune critic Blair Kamin. He’s got a new book out called “Who Is the City For? Architecture, Equity and the Public Realm in Chicago,” with photography by his former Sun-Times competitor, Lee Bey. It’s Kamin’s...
Two USC School of Architecture students, separated by a continent after graduation, eventually got back together in L.A. – then started their own firm. Seventeen years ago, Brett Woods headed to Durham, N.C. and Little Architecture, eventually returning to California and another firm after two years....
Ben Weprin, Graduate Hotels founder and CEO, says in the introduction to his new book from Rizzoli that: “In my opinion, the two most important days in your life are the day you decide where to go to college and the day you decide who you want to be.” He went to the University of […]
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber...
Two USC School of Architecture students, separated by a continent after graduation, eventually got back together in L.A. – then started their own firm. Sixteen years ago, Brett Woods headed to Little Architecture in Durham, N.C., returning to California and another firm after two years. Joseph Dangaran...
Caroline Cockerham and Laura Tripp both attended N.C. State’s College of Textiles, but they didn’t meet until they went to work at Patagonia in California. “We were material developers,” Cockerham says. “We got our heads on straight there – Patagonia helped us learn how to build products...
Author, editor, and strategic communications consultant Bill Richards has a new book out that tackles one of our favorite building materials: Bamboo. He began with 200 projects that utilize the renewable material in a variety of ways, then curated them down to 14, spread out over 223 pages. “I wanted...
Caroline Cockerham and Laura Tripp both attended N.C. State’s College of Textiles, but didn’t meet until they went to work for Patagonia in California. “We were material developers,” Cockerham says. “We got our heads on straight out there – Patagonia helped us learn how to build products...
