Aberdeen Manor, Valparaiso: How the Light Moves
A manor-style venue in the moraine country of northwest Indiana, close enough to Lake Michigan for the lake to change the weather.
The Story Inn, Story: One Frame and How It Is Made
A nineteenth-century general store in a Brown County hollow — a whole hamlet of two or three buildings, and one frame worth the day.
Abe Martin Lodge, Nashville: The Venue’s Own Logic
A rustic park lodge in the Brown County hills, built from the timber and stone around it — which means it absorbs light rather than reflecting it.
Potawatomi Inn, Angola: How the Light Moves on a Kettle Lake
A park inn on a chain of glacial kettle lakes in the far northeast corner of Indiana — deep, clear, cold water in wooded moraine country.
The Pines at Porter, Indiana: The Problem and Four Ways Out of It
A venue in the Indiana dune country, where the sand is bright quartz, the lake faces north, and both sunrise and sunset can be over water.
Indianapolis Motor Speedway: The One Decision That Governs Everything
A two-and-a-half-mile oval with a strip of original brick at the start line. The place is either the subject or it is nothing.
French Lick Resort, French Lick: The Venue’s Own Logic
A grand resort built around mineral springs in the southern Indiana hills — designed to impress on arrival and to hold people indoors.