Architecture — City Notes — Reading the City

Death in Chicago

The original model for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago was Venice, not Beaux-Arts Paris or Renaissance Rome.

UrbanismGabriel FeldOctober 22, 2019Chicago, Illinois, USA, ArchitectureComment

Streets seem to define the way in which urban settlements take shape. Still, cities are put together in many different ways.

Urbanism, ArchitectureGabriel FeldOctober 22, 2019ArchitectureComment

Burnham's World

Have you ever looked with a little care at the plan of the 1893 Chicago Exposition?

UrbanismGabriel FeldOctober 22, 2019Chicago, Illinois, USA, ArchitectureComment

Schinkel's Eye

By the time the figures in the drawing reached the upper terrace and can look across the Lustgarten back to the city, they have crossed the most elaborate sequence of thresholds.

Urbanism, ArchitectureGabriel FeldMay 1, 2019ArchitectureComment

A Little Urbanism?

How is urban design different from architecture?

UrbanismGabriel FeldMay 1, 2019Architecture, GermanyComment

Mies and the City (in 1922)

Shortly after his entry to the 1921 Friedrichstrasse competition, Mies produced a second project for a high-rise office building.

UrbanismGabriel FeldMay 1, 2019Architecture, Berlin, Germany, EuropeComment

Urban Bestiary (6)

For the 1925 Exposition International des Arts Décoratives he set out to build, literally, a house for his vision of the city.

UrbanismGabriel FeldMay 1, 2019ArchitectureComment