18 things James Okafor from Chicago, IL actually loves
- Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House
- The way light enters Crown Hall at 3pm in winter
- Exposed concrete done well
- Lake Michigan from the Promontory Point rocks
- Tadao Ando
- A 6B pencil on trace paper
- My father's architecture library, which he left me
- John Coltrane, specifically the Crescent album
- Stony Island Arts Bank
- Gene's Sausage Shop on Lincoln
- A building that knows what it is
- The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
- My daughter's drawings of houses, age 6
- Italian beef, dipped, with giardiniera
- Scale models at 1:50
- The belief that every person deserves a beautiful room
- Falling asleep to the sound of the L train
- Louis Kahn's comment about what a brick wants to be