Kate Rockwood

Aspiring architects, practicing professionals and design fetishists from around the globe flock to Chicago not just to gawk at the architecture, but to prowl through the stacks at Prairie Avenue Bookshop, dubbed “the best architectural bookshop in the world” by London’s Financial Times. Founded in 1974, the store was the accidental outgrowth of Marilyn and Wilbert R. Hasbrouck’s original business ventures, an architecture and design journal and a publishing company that reprints architecture books.

Written by Clay Dillow. Originally published January 2008, Midwest Current