Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid – Digital Pioneers

Frank Gehry died on December 5, 2025 in Santa Monica, CA.  Obituaries for him number in the dozens. I’ve read a representative sample of them. Very few of them mention Gehry’s very important contribution to architectural technology. Those that do mention it do so only in passing. Edward Keegan, in Continue Reading

The Brooks Brothers – No, Not The Suit Guys

In 2010 I trained as a docent at the then Chicago Architecture Foundation, now the Chicago Architecture Center. During the training we learned of the importance of East Coast money, influence and people to the building of Chicago after the Great Fire of 1871. Among the East Coast influencers were Continue Reading