12/10/2026
Day 3 of Chicago Trip was another treat
Took a ride to the amazing Chicago University campus. So many amazing building that you just kind of stumble across around an extraordinary Gothic courtyard.
Treats include SOM, Eero Saarinen, Mies but the main event (for me) was the Robie House by Frank Lloyd Wirght. A much more mature and resolved Prarie style home. 1910.
Then a trip to the Obama centre by Tod Williams
Billie Tsien. Amazing Landcape and building as an artifact. It’s quite the space. And very popular
And at afternoon a tour from the Chicago Architecture Center to see Interior treasures of the Golden Ages. Slightly overwhelming spaces from some earlier architects from Chicago and amazing stories of conservation and adaptive reuse of each of these spaces.
Another big day