Observations
This platform features articles, essays, interviews, reviews, and photo essays about the built environment and the people and conditions that shape it. Since 2022, Observations has also included a monthly column by architectural historian Elizabeth Blasius.
Monthly Column
The Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room and the Economies of Ornament
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Interview
On Bruce Goff’s Ford House: Sidney K. Robinson Interviews Don Tosi
Sidney K. Robinson Interviews Don Tosi
Interview
Vanishing Black Bars & Lounges: An Interview With L. Kasimu Harris
David Schalliol interviews L. Kasimu Harris
Monthly Column
Bruce Goff’s Fabulous (and Bedazzled) Material Worlds
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Essay
Sacred Shift: Contested Heritage, Public Memory, and Sustainable Futures in Places of Ritual Reuse
Essay by Rebekah Coffman
Essay
Evans Woollen: Tracing the Forgotten History of the “Dean of Indiana Architects”
Essay by writer Phillip Cox and photographer Niall Cronin
Monthly Column
From Design to Destruction: Archiving the World Trade Center
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Interview
Unidad Vecinal: A Flexible Architecture Continuously Activated
Iker Gil interviews Francisco Quiñones and Nathan Friedman of Departamento del Distrito
Interview
Ishinomaki Laboratory: A Furniture Company with a Deep Social Mission
David Schalliol interviews Keiji Ashizawa and Tomomi Hashimoto