ARCHITECTURE AT NORTHWESTERN.

ARCHITECTURE AT NORTHWESTERN. My New York friends have remarked that my friends visiting from Chicago care about architecture, that they often ask who designed various buildings. There are displays along Dearborn in Chicago identifying the architecturally significant buildings (almost every building has architectural significance). I could say that I am posting this article because it shows that Northwestern students care about architecture, but I am really posting it because the author likes Deering Library at Northwestern and I remember watching an interview with Frank Lloyd Wright in which he compared Deering Library to a “pig on its back.” (Link courtesy of Katatonic on the Northwestern football message board at Purple Reign.) There has been some debate on the football message board over which Northwestern building looks like a pig on its back, and they seem to have agreed that it is Deering, which has short chimneys at each corner of the roof. I suppose it is noteworthy that there is more than one building on campus that could be compared to a pig on its back.