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Be a Tourist in Your Own City
Over the weekend I found myself chatting with strangers, two older women sitting on a bench with a dog in Dawes Park on Evanston’s lakefront. What…
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Architects' Small House Service Bureau
With America’s current housing shortage, who thinks we should bring back the Architects’ Small House Service Bureau (ASHSB)? Wait…what!?! Once upon a…
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Carl Koch, Roy Schoenbrod, and the Techbuilt Homes in Northfield
I don’t know what immediately comes to your mind when you think of suburban Northfield. Maybe Chief Keef? But architecture is probably not at the top of…
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My Corner of the Internet...For Now
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The Desecration of Pleasant Home
On Friday Steve Kelley, a longtime volunteer for the Pleasant Home Foundation Restoration Committee and member of its Board of Trustees, informed the…
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Women's History Month: Jean Wehrheim
Did you know that today only 23.3% of all American-based architects are women? Considering March is Women’s History Month when we commemorate the vital…
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The Destruction of Villa Hortensia
I’m fully aware this substack is supposed to be about the architecture of Chicagoland. But if there is such a thing as a Chicago “North,” then it would…
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