Chicago is known for good steaks expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics violent crime and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

If architecture is as is sometimes said music set in concrete then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

In addressing a task one almost always has several possible options sometimes only a few and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

If architecture had nothing to do with art it would be astonishingly easy to build houses but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture as long as they are done properly.

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.