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Straight Talk
BMW Guggenheim Lab. Courtesy of Atelier Bow-Wow. Readers of Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities will recall the “Collateral Campaign,” a fictional initiative to commemorate the seventieth...
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Part 1: The Amanuensis
Photograph by Michael Childers. A story in three parts. Karl, the Beat Hotel’s ex-meth-addict handyman, stood at the top of a thirty-foot ladder, squirting a translucent goo with the brand name...
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Part 2: The Offer
Steve Lowe and the Mugwump. Photograph by Michael Childers. A story in three parts. Previously: Part 1, The Amanuensis. I met Steve the first time I stayed at the Lautner Motel, in August of 2000. I...
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Premium Unleaded, and Other News
Frank Lloyd’s gas station in Cloquet, Minnesota. In November 1994, George Plimpton interviewed Garrison Keillor at 92Y as part of a collaboration with The Paris Review. You can listen to a recording of...
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Makers’ Markers
Graceland Cemetery, in Chicago. Toward the north end of Chicago’s Graceland Cemetery, around Lake Willowmere, lies a cluster of graves belonging to the city’s most famous architects, among them Louis...
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We Deserve a Pink Guggenheim, and Other News
What might have been. Image via the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York). Name a building...
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Utopia Interrupted: The Uncertain Future of the Mall
Architectural rendering at Monroeville Mall, 2016. It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality. —Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space An attractive young woman with long...
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When Frank Lloyd Wright Designed a Bookstore
Frank Lloyd Wright. Photo: Yousuf Karsh. In October 1907—a few months after Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle horrified Chicago—a new bookstore opened on the seventh floor of the Fine Arts Building downtown....
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