Paul Gapp

Summer in the big city is-among other things-a good time to kibitz on a construction project, pick a few juicy tomatoes from your garden, or sit back and lazily contemplate...

Chicago has always been one of America`s best ''newspaper towns,'' a term applied by reporters who rank cities by their numbers of flamboyant politicians, sports figures, crime syndicate murders and...

Chicago`s downtown used to be world famous for its compactness. You could find almost anything without going far outside the iron girdle of the Loop elevated tracks. Today, however, new...

Here is a look at the architectural invaders of the last five years, a brief appraisal of their completed Chicago work to date and a tentative examination of buildings announced...

Two architecturally rooted exhibits will be among four displays that go on view when the Chicago Historical Society formally opens its expanded museum Thursday . One is on the evolution...

Hugh Ferriss spent most of his life drawing skyscrapers. His dark, shadowy, romanticized images of the 1920s and 1930s were unique in their power to glorify urban towers. Some 70...

Chicago`s commitment to saving municipally designated landmarks is undergoing one of its most crucial tests. If a little gem of a structure called the McCarthy Building is torn down, the...

This picture book about architecture in the Illinois capital is not one of those little volumes designed to be toted around on a walking tour, but it can be used...

Ricardo Bofill, the wildest Spanish architect since Antonio Gaudi, is a Postmodernist best known for his huge concrete housing complexes in France. This handsomely turned-out book gives a fine pictorial...

Concepts of Urban Design By David Gosling and Barry Maitland (St. Martin`s Press, 176 pages, $29.95) City planning and urban design have generally failed us in the last 30 years....