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Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, Chicago 1890
Joanna Merwood-Salisbury’s Chicago 1890 is a slim, engaging study that places a handful of the city’s first skyscrapers, including The Monadnock, the Masonic Temple, and the Reliance Building, in the context of the raucus decade during which they were erected.
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Review of Paul Goldberger’s Why Architecture Matters
My brief review of Paul Goldberger’s Why Architecture Matters (Yale) appears in the fall issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review. Click here (and scroll down) to read it. “[Goldberger] is suitably temperate while discussing the balance of ‘aesthetic ambition’ and ’social purpose,’ exterior form and interior space, architecture’s effects on our emotions and on our [...]