Lost in the Library of Every Word on Film
Nov 6 · 5 min read
The sublime wonder of not being intimidated anymore.
I’ve often called the Harold Washington Library in downtown Chicago “The ugliest building in all of the Greater Chicago Area” and this is not fair to it. I’ve described it like a Brutalist book prison, all straight lines and sharply imagined metal flanges formed into the cruel visages of symbols of old Western knowledge: owls and scrolls…


