Derivative Works

Architecture Essays

  • Prentice Hospital is Worth Saving

    There's a lot going on around Prentice Women's Hospital (250 East Superior Street) right now. It was made in 1974, but I think it deserves protection as a historic place. I love the sublime honeycomb structure– it makes me remember that it's possible to build something fresh. That not everything has to fit the box.…

  • Logan Square Land Use: Mega Mall Block Through Time — Emptiness, Movie Theaters and Auto Dealerships

    Lately, after having been schooled by architecture & design educator Jen Masengarb on the topic, I have had a mini-obsession with Sanborn Fire Maps in Chicago. She obtained a set of maps for the area around my apartment in Logan Square for 1896, 1921, and 1950 and helped me (and some other nerds) analyze these…

  • Trip to Boulder

    Boulder Comes in to Focus, originally uploaded by juggernautco. Here's a set of images from my recent trip to Boulder, CO.

  • Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo

    Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo, originally uploaded by juggernautco. The pond just to the south of the Lincoln Park Zoo has been tranformed. In recent years, when it was called the South Pond, it's been a mildly crumbling thing, with narrow shores along the Farm in the Zoo, 70s-style paddles boats that I never…

  • Fort Royal Fourth of July > Study of a Contemporary American Family Farm

    Here’s a photo essay I did about the workings of a successful American family farm in 2009: It’s a pretty good personal document (for the Coppler family– my girlfriend’s wife’s mother’s family) and general document of smaller-scale farming in north central Ohio today. I took these pictures while a tour that her uncle gave to…

  • Detail of Louis Sullivan Storefront, 28 S. Wabash

    Detail of Louis Sullivan Storefront, 28 S. Wabash, originally uploaded by juggernautco. Here’s some detail of the lost Louis Sullivan storefront. I’ve been walking by it the last few days and they just took the tarp off, exposing the detail. See my complete set here and more about the place here: http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2008/10/lost-louis-sull.html. Update: On Sunday,…

  • Armories & Crowds

    Broadway Armory, Chicago, originally uploaded by juggernautco. I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of revolution– I’d like to be in one someday. I love the pounce of political crowds. After Harold Washington died, Chicago was gripped in political turmoil that had a street component– people were surging at the doors at City Hall leading…

  • St. Lawrence Church, 7400 S Saint Lawrence Avenue > The prairie re-encroaches

    St. Lawrence Church, 7400 S Saint Lawrence Avenue > The prairie re-encroaches, originally uploaded by juggernautco. Last week when I traveled with David Schalliol on the South Side to document his Isolated Building Studies, we came across St. Lawrence Parish. Really quite stunning to see this configuration of buildings– Church, school, rectory– a set that…

  • Flickr User Nolareno is a Richard Nickel of Antedeluvian New Orleans

    Valence St. Church May 7th (16), originally uploaded by nolareno. I have tracked the photos of Nolareno, a Flickr user, for a few months now. They are stunning, mundane documents about the current architectural truth of New Orleans. Nolareno photographs the demolition of supermarkets, shoots wonderful snips of architectural detail, and otherwise walks and snaps…

  • Highwood Public Library

    Yesterday was a bright & sunny day in Chicago. Temperature in the 40s/ low 30s. Crisp and fresh. So it was a great day to get out and take some photos for a friend of mine who runs a

  • Lockport, IL, September 2003– Canal Building

    Lockport, IL is a cool little town founded in 1830. It is one of those key cogs in the rise of commerce that is easy to forget. I spent a couple hours in Lockport in September 2003 before an appointment. Here are some pics. Here’s some text from their city website: Lockport’s rich canal heritage…

  • Lincoln Park Zoo Lion House

    Here’s a look at the ceiling of the Lion House at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. The Chicago Commission on Landmarks recently granted it preliminary landmark status. Here’s some text about it from the Inside Newspaper: Now known as the Kovler Lion House, the Beaux-Arts and Prairie-style building exemplifies an important period in Chicago…

  • Daley Center Chicago: HVAC for the Weary

    I’ve always been attuned to HVAC– Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning— in architecture. the design of a building’s HVAC system can make or break its success, but it seems that too few architects pay much attention to it. Very often you’ll walk into a place that blasts you with hot stale air as soon as…

  • Upon First Entering Millennium Park

    Last night I experienced Millennium Park. It is immense and personal. Everything was gigantic and felt just right. There were dozens of thousands of people there and I was with Deirdre, solo. We entered from the northwest corner, at a pond circled by names of the monied class who donated to help make the park.…