Building tall: the vernaculars of capitalism
The development of a city is influenced by many economic regulations, policies, and technologies. The space reserved for work shapes a city’s image. Through the comparative study of the development of Chicago and New York from 1890s to 1940s, Carol Willis explains her theory of the vernaculars of capitalism, where rules and urban factors produce various three-dimensional expressions. Carol Willis is an urban planning and architecture historian, a specialist of the history of building American cities. Jesse Seegers is an architect, journalist, architecture critic and graphic designer. (Interview by Jesse Seegers)
