Cities
Architecture is not abstract. It happens in specific places, shaped by specific histories.
Chicago
The city where American architecture found its ambition. The Loop, the lakefront, the housing projects, and the slow reckoning with what the twentieth century built.
New Orleans
A city that has survived catastrophe and resisted the logic of American development. Its architecture is a record of French, Spanish, and Creole building traditions layered over two centuries.
Detroit
The city that built the American century and paid for it. Its abandoned buildings are the most photographed ruins in the country and the most misunderstood.
Savannah
The best-preserved example of colonial American urban planning. The ward system that James Oglethorpe designed in 1733 is still legible in the city's streets and squares.
Miami
The city that invented itself twice: once as a winter resort for the wealthy, and again as a dense, subtropical metropolis shaped by Latin American migration, Art Deco preservation, and the particular pressures of building on a barrier island.