A brief follow-up to last year’s post on the centenary of Frank Lloyd Wright’s legendary Tokyo hotel, now rapidly receding in first-hand re...

2024 is the centenary year of Frank Lloyd Wright’s much lamented Imperial Hotel in Tokyo - commemorative exhibitions have taken place in Tok...

This is a conventional promotional postcard - an invitation to admire the inordinate scale of the Larkin Factories activity and the vast ext...

Fred Robie was a young man given to motoring around Chicago in a car of his own design - he had an engineering background and he was making ...

When I grew up in the 1950s factories were everywhere. Large and small, in city centres and outer suburbs, alongside railways and arteri...

Oak Park is a western residential suburb, bordering on the city limit of Chicago. Streets were planned on a spacious grid that was subdi...