Suburban architecture is not, for the most part, very remarkable. But here in Bolingbrook, Oak View Elementary School begs to differ. It looks like a big concrete box, yes; but in my opinion, it is actually a classic example of Brutalism, a modernist style based in raw concrete and pioneered by the architect Le Corbusier in […]
Boring Suburban Houses 
March 11, 2014 by
Often, people have this image of the suburbs as a bland, cookie-cutter type place where all the houses look the same. I’m lucky enough to live in a suburb like Bolingbrook, where we have enough interesting (and eccentric?) people, apparently, that this is not the case. Believe me – plenty of suburbs, and even post-war […]
