Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin (but the other way around and for architects)

An interesting, dish-y piece from Phillip Nobel over at Metropolis. It’s “I [heart] IIT…But I Still Don’t Like Rem.” In part it’s about his love of the Koolhaas-designed student center at the Illinois Institute of Technology, but also about his unfortunate personal run-ins with the famous architect. So you’ve got both sides of a good story, some juicy gossip and some heartfelt sincere appreciation. And if this doesn’t convince you to skip the regular tourist-y haunts the next time you’re in Chicago, your Navy Piers and your Michigan Avenue chain pizza restaurants, and instead go take in one of the most magnificent collections of modern architecture you’ll ever see, then you, dear reader, are a helpless case.