Wonderful piece on Architecture by Roger Ebert. As an Architecture drop-out, I bitch about build­ings more than I build, so know­ing it’s my words against the world, I let other peo­ple do the talking:

Much mod­ern archi­tec­ture has grown tire­some to me. It does not glad­den the heart. It doesn’t seem to spring from humans. It seems drawn from math­e­mat­i­cal axioms rather than those learned for cen­turies from the earth, the organic ori­gins of build­ing mate­ri­als, the reach of hands and arms, and that which is pleas­ing to the eye. It is not har­mo­nious. It holds the same note indefinitely.

And he’s talk­ing about Chicago. I can only imag­ine what is hap­pen­ing all over the world.