Zach Mortice
@zachmortice.bsky.social
Chicago design journalist and critic, @bloomberg.com and elsewhere. In one of those phases where I can’t decide whether it matters what buildings look like or not.
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I am big mad b/c ppl have been sleeping on Felix Candela / Chapel of Nuestra Señora de la Soledad /
November 29, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I am big mad b/c ppl have been sleeping on Felix Candela / Chapel of Nuestra Señora de la Soledad /
There are much worse places to be stuck, it must be said
November 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
There are much worse places to be stuck, it must be said
Maybe, but Rashida Tlaib needs a Gundam way way more
November 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Maybe, but Rashida Tlaib needs a Gundam way way more
There’s a article in the @chicagotribune.com I’m quoted in, and I googled how to get a had copy of the paper, but page on their website explaining this is paywalled www.chicagotribune.com/2021/05/17/f...
November 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
There’s a article in the @chicagotribune.com I’m quoted in, and I googled how to get a had copy of the paper, but page on their website explaining this is paywalled www.chicagotribune.com/2021/05/17/f...
I am dying at this Gab AI ad, “EVEN OUR BOTS DON’T READ!!!!”
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I am dying at this Gab AI ad, “EVEN OUR BOTS DON’T READ!!!!”
Reminder that as the birthplace of the American labor movement and the Pullman uprising of 1894, Chicagoans have been putting their bodies on the line for working people for a VERY long time and define their regional identity around doing exactly that www.wttw.com/chicago-stor...
November 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Reminder that as the birthplace of the American labor movement and the Pullman uprising of 1894, Chicagoans have been putting their bodies on the line for working people for a VERY long time and define their regional identity around doing exactly that www.wttw.com/chicago-stor...
FYI Gary, Indiana is still beautiful
November 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
FYI Gary, Indiana is still beautiful
Moral clarity from a True King
October 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Moral clarity from a True King
FYI I contain multitudes
October 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
FYI I contain multitudes
Schurz High School, 1910, by the 🐐 Dwight Perkins
October 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Schurz High School, 1910, by the 🐐 Dwight Perkins
Chicago Architecture Biennial outtakes. Read my review! www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
October 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Chicago Architecture Biennial outtakes. Read my review! www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
U know I love a freaky adaptive reuse.
Chopo Museum, Enrique Norten
Chopo Museum, Enrique Norten
October 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
U know I love a freaky adaptive reuse.
Chopo Museum, Enrique Norten
Chopo Museum, Enrique Norten
Just an incredible statement on the durability of arts and culture in a place that is not recognized for its contributions nearly enough
October 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Just an incredible statement on the durability of arts and culture in a place that is not recognized for its contributions nearly enough
My fav building power rankings are getting ROCKED by this indestructible battleship of a community arts center in Iztapalapa. Fábrica de Artes y Oficios Oriente by Alberto Kallach (2000).
October 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
My fav building power rankings are getting ROCKED by this indestructible battleship of a community arts center in Iztapalapa. Fábrica de Artes y Oficios Oriente by Alberto Kallach (2000).
👌 ally-oop addition by Marcio Rocha
October 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
👌 ally-oop addition by Marcio Rocha
One of my strongest held beliefs about design is that if you make new stuff look old it never ends well, but Museo Anahuacalli by Diego Rivera and Juan O’Gorman (1964) is 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
October 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
One of my strongest held beliefs about design is that if you make new stuff look old it never ends well, but Museo Anahuacalli by Diego Rivera and Juan O’Gorman (1964) is 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Nobody knows how to do funny political cartoons anymore
September 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Nobody knows how to do funny political cartoons anymore
UNAM’s architecture school, in CDMX. The GSAPP could never.
September 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
UNAM’s architecture school, in CDMX. The GSAPP could never.
Yoooooo they’ve got mid-career IM Pei in CDMX !!!!!!!!1 [Tamayo Museum, 1981, Teodoro González de León and Abraham Zabludovsky]
September 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Yoooooo they’ve got mid-career IM Pei in CDMX !!!!!!!!1 [Tamayo Museum, 1981, Teodoro González de León and Abraham Zabludovsky]
Mario Pani’s CDMX Tlateloco social housing complex’s use of landscape is wildly advanced for a mid-century mega-block plan, just astounding how landscape and plantings are used to define different scales of public space
September 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Mario Pani’s CDMX Tlateloco social housing complex’s use of landscape is wildly advanced for a mid-century mega-block plan, just astounding how landscape and plantings are used to define different scales of public space
Elliot Noyes Southside Elementary, 1969 (h/t @jmings.bsky.social, an alum!)
September 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Elliot Noyes Southside Elementary, 1969 (h/t @jmings.bsky.social, an alum!)
Norman Fletcher's Parkside Elementary, 1962
September 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Norman Fletcher's Parkside Elementary, 1962
Harry Weese's Schmitt Elementary, 1957
September 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Harry Weese's Schmitt Elementary, 1957