Category Archives: Writing
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Idea of a Temple
The Imperial Hotel (Tokyo), The Guggenheim Museum (New York), Wingspread and the Johnson Wax Administrative Building (Racine, WI), Robie House (Chicago), Taliesen and Taliensen West (Spring Green, WI, and Scottsdale, AZ), Falling Water (Mill Run, PA)—the list of important buildings goes … Continue reading
Chicago Writers List
This list of Chicago Writers provides easy access to, and an overview of, articles about them on this site. It’s based on the writers David Starkey and I included in our 1999 book Smokestacks & Skycrapers, and also contains some writers based on … Continue reading
Praise for Smokestacks & Skyscrapers
In 1999 Loyola University Press’ imprint, Wild Onion Books, published a book David Starkey and I edited. Smokestacks and Skyscrapers was the first major anthology of Chicago writing in nearly 50 years and by far its most comprehensive. It gained … Continue reading