Selected writings on buildings, environments and urban landscapes:
Inside Mies: On Living at 860/880 Lake Shore Drive
on the pleasures and perils of living in an architectural monument: the Mies van der Rohe-designed glass curtain wall apartment buildings on Chicago's lake front.
Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives, edited by Charles Waldheim and Katerina Ruedi Ray
University of Chicago Press, 2005 (republication of essay published in Metropolis magazine 1992)
Julie Snow: The Rugged and the Refined
essay on the work of the Minneapolis based architectural practice.
Julie Snow, Architect, Princeton Architectural Press, 2005
Wherever. Your Final Destination. Maybe
on the design and culture of international airports, catalog essay for the 8th Venice Architecture Biennale
Next, Rizzoli International, 2002
Six Degrees of Unreality
critique of the Mohegan Sun Casino's second phase expansion, designed by the Rockwell Group
Domus, May 2002
Graves' Travels: Giants and Dwarfs — on the work of architect Michael Graves
Michael Graves: Buildings and Projects, 1990-1994, Rizzoli International, 1995
Available for Viewing
catalog essay on the photographic representation of architecture, with examples from London, Los Angeles and Hong Kong, including work by Garry Winogrand and Frank Gehry
SITE WORK: Architecture in Photography Since Early Modernism, Photographers Gallery, London 1991