maya lin :
vietnam veterans memorial :
20 years

atlanta, georgia
peachtree street - an exhaustive series of articles examining Atlanta's rapidly changing streetscape. John Portman is among those interviewed. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution 1999).
buffalo, new york
buffalo architecture and history - a large for-the-love-of-it site dedicated to Buffalo's architecture.
chicago, illinois
art institute architecture collection - this page should take you to the Art Institute of Chicago's architecture department, which mentions all current and future architecture exhibits.The institute is currently getting a new wing built by Renzo Piano. [05/06]
chicago architects oral history project - part of the Art Institute, it's a HEAP of interviews with architects who have built in Chicago. There is a 332 page interview with Gordon Bunshaft, from 1989. Bunshaft on education: "Architecture, let’s say, is the whole alphabet, A to X-Y-Z. As far as schooling goes, it’s A-B-C. There are twenty-three more letters or something. So the word “training” sounds profound, but it isn’t. You’re just getting awakened to it." [05/06]
chicago architecture foundation - many many many tours of old and new buildings, held daily and quite cheap - how else will you get to the Farnsworth? [05/06]
chicago landmarks - a council website with a good rundown of Chicago's many important buildings. The site also has self-guided tour suggestions. [07/06]
from louis sullivan to SOM - descriptions of MIT graduates who made it big in Chicago a century ago.[07/06]
mies van der rohe society - this IIT based society has almost daily walking tours of the campus (which includes buildings by Mies, Koolhaas and Jahn). [09/06]

los angeles, california
document L.A. - a small collection of historic photographs.
virtual los angeles - captures from a mind-boggling project by the UCLA modelling the whole of the los angeles basin.
four ecologies of LA - Cardiff University student updates Banham's survey (1994).
Varnelis - interesting and usually well-tended american archiblog, brought to you by Kazys Varnelis, director of the Network Architecture Lab at the Columbia University. [07/06]
delerious LA - Alan A. Loomis' essays on urban LA. [07/06]
LA Past, present, future - useful site with links to just about everything to do with the development of Los Angeles. [07/06]
las vegas, nevada
las vegas, 'tis of thee - a wander down the strip, 2001 style. Also many useful vegas links. (atlantic, 2/01)
new york, new york
ARCHIGRAM: Welcome to New York
What if... the Times Square redevelopment had looked towards Archigram, not Disney. (part3 98)
broken new york - concentrating on things less photographed.
frank jump's fading ads - large collection of beautiful photos of billboards.
a love of monsters - a great enthusiast site describing various walks about NY looking at gargoyles.
modern ruins - photo essays of New York's recently dead architecture. Includes Coney Island and the 1964 World's Fair. Links to similar sites.
someplace like home - did you know that the model for Psycho's Bates House (and Edward Hopper's 'House by the Railroad') sits 30 miles north of New York city? (atlantic 1996)
the fall of the twin towers - description of the towers and relevant links. [Butterpaper.com]
philadelphia, pennsylvania
philadelphia architects and buildings - a highly ambitious project seeking to commit to database just about every historic buidling on the planet, starting in Philadelphia (138,000 entries and growing). Free access to low res images for some entries. [08/03]
washington D.C.
national building museum