Midwest Modern’s Architectural Road Trip
Josh Lipnik uses Twitter to document regional architecture and design.
Twilight in Grand Rapids
A photographer’s exploration of the city she calls home, in its quietest hours.
Paper House
"I never would have called it homelessness, if you’d asked."
What to Do with the Chicago River?
Reimagining the waterway for the twenty-first century.
The Enduring Legacy of Decatur’s Carnegie Library
An ode to a community institution.
Under the Big Dome
How the now-defunct Civic Arena buried Pittsburgh's "Little Harlem."
House on the Rock at Sixty
Approaching six decades of existence, one of the strangest places in the Midwest continues to defy easy description.
Garfield Park: Perspectives
An excerpt from "The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook."
Edith Farnsworth’s House
"Each season she arrived, / steering her car through uncut grasses / against the wishes / of the imposing architect"
The Afterlives of the 1933 Century of Progress Homes
They were built to demonstrate the promise of home technology for the World's Fair. What happened to them?
Returning to Pittsburgh
"For all the intervening years, Pittsburgh had lived in my memory...viewable but not touchable, sequestered behind a one-way mirror of time."
The Packard Presence in Columbus
Walking around Columbus, Ohio, the influence of Frank Packard's architecture is everywhere you look.