The front and back of the Building Stories box JimmyStamp I learned to read so I could figure out why Batman was throwing his costume into a fireplace on the cover of one of my dad’s old comic ...

Festooned with dragons, griffins, cherubs, rams. That four-faced clock, 20 feet tall. “Beloved” is not open to debate — any survey of popular Chicago buildings includes the Wrigley Building.

By David Ross Scheer. Routledge, August 2014, 258 pages, $40. In The Death of Drawing, David Ross Scheer, an architect and teacher specializing in digital technologies, lays out the contemporary ...