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Frontier Mythology
The Disintegration of American Civilization
Escape Velocity, Privatized Perception and Confusions of Scale
Caged Birds, Mannequins and Biomimicry in Architecture
Sex & Urban Anxiety (Agoraphobia)
The Grid, the Cube & The Frontier
Creative Destruction & Vertical Landfills
The Beautiful & The Sublime
Chicago House I (In-Progress)
Images from Chicago
Lake Michigan, Grant Park, Chicago
A Plan of Chicago
Uncanny NYC
Surreal Detroit (Ruin Porn)
L.A. Noir
Masters of Architecture Portfolio
Professional Work (SOM)

Abstract

Historically American culture has forsaken urban society for romantic visions of wilderness and myths of the self-made individual. At best these dreams have perpetuated innovation and flexibility. At worst they have ingrained a desire to escape the responsibilities of living in a complex society. Today we confront the consequences of a culture and an economy based on expansion, dispersal, planned obsolescence and fantasies of domestic bliss.

There is nowhere left to go. There is no place that has not been affected by the presence of human beings. We are a geological force of 7 billion and counting. There is no escape from each other. There is no frontier. Nothing is pure. We cannot start over. We cannot expand. We must learn to make a home where we are. We must learn to reinvest and rebuild the places that are most important and viable in our future.

In this moment and in this place, as we begin to reconsider our our relationship with nature and with each other, we may confront all that we have tried to forget about ourselves and our history.

Architecture and Design Readings

The Conscience of the Eye
Eyes of the Skin
Landform Building
Compulsive Beauty (Surrealism)
In Praise of Shadows
An Inquiry into the Picturesque
Natural History (Herzog & De Meuron)
On & By Frank Lloyd Wright
The Architectural Uncanny
Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies
The Art-Architecture Complex
Subnature

Chicago Readings

Nature's Metropolis, Chicago & the Great West
City of the Century
The Jungle
1909 Plan of Chicago
Lost Chicago
American Pharaoh
The Pig & the Skyscraper
Smokestacks and Skyscrapers
When Work Disappears
Never a City So Real
The Third City

Urban History and Culture Readings

Crabgrass Frontier
A Consumer's Republic
Virgin Land
Culture of Narcissism
The Surrender of Culture to Technology
The Culture of Make Believe
The Way We Never Were
Sex at Dawn
The City in History
A People's History of the United States
The World Without Us
Cities & the Wealth of Nations
Small is Beautiful
The Origin of the Urban Crisis
The Moment of Complexity
A Green History of the World
The Fall of Public Man
How We Decide
The Nine Nations of North America

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