architecture

Cable Building, 57 East Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Photographed by Richard Nickel in 1960

Artist & teacher
crafting with clay and code
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I feel like old Chicago has a style that is uniquely American. I hope we will have a revival of this sort of Louis Sullivan style.

I wear many hats as an architectural designer, teacher, and enthusiastic technologist. I enjoy learning and having interesting conversations.

I agree and I am glad so many buildings in the downtown loop preserve the Chicago style(s). I often wonder what it would cost to create a Sullivan-esque building today, with all of the incredible terracotta and intricate metal detail work.

I think that cost was initially the reason it fell out of vogue.
However, emerging building technologies are making the custom one of a kind the same cost as the mass produced. we are approaching a wonderful revolution when these costs are the same.