Heading west this summer? As part of its “Fifty Reasons to Love the Road Trip” series, the
Wall Street Journal maps sites between Cleveland and Chicago for the road tripping architecture-lover. According to the article, there is a concentration of modern and contemporary architecture in the Midwest thanks to preservation efforts and a recent museum-building boom. Noteworthy sites include:
- the faceted, mirrored-glass structure housing the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland (pictured below);
- the mid-century modern Miller House in Columbus, Indiana, designed by Gateway Arch-architect Eero Saarinen;
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's glass-walled Farnsworth house, built as a weekend retreat outside of Chicago; and
- the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s river cruises, where docents describe over 50 buildings in the skyscraper’s birthplace.
