Skip to content
JOSH MINGS STUDIO

JOSH MINGS STUDIO

Architect / Artist

  • Architecture
    • Collisions of Duality – A New Dance School for the Moulin Rouge (Paris, France)
    • Le Petit Cabine – New Orleans Passive House (New Orleans, LA)
    • Permanent Ephemera – Outdoor Classroom at Tulane University (New Orleans, LA)
    • Praiseworthy Competition with One’s Ancestors – Columbus, Indiana Architecture Depository
    • Rethinking Histories – The Orleans Avenue Canal (New Orleans, LA)
    • Segregation (Both/And) Intergration – The Louisiana Civil Rights Institute (New Orleans, LA)
    • Shifted Realities – A (new) New Orleans Typology (New Orleans, LA)
    • Stitching the Neighborhood – Bayou (St. John) Bazaar (New Orleans, LA)
    • The Story of Building – Sverre Fehn’s Museums
    • This is Not a Playhouse – Life of an Architect Competition
  • Art
    • Columbus Series
      • Blue Hour Bank – Columbus, Indiana
      • Fire Station 4
      • Literary Lines – 2017
      • Nine Square Grid – Columbus Style
      • North Christian Church – Columbus, Indiana
      • Through the Arch – 2017
      • Tunnel Vision
    • Minimalist Series
      • Norway Postcards
      • Yellowstone
    • Waterfall Series
      • Gullfoss
      • Oxararfoss
      • Seljalandsfoss
      • Skogafoss
    • Cabin on the Lake – Lofoten Islands
    • Chicago Chit Chat
    • Evening on the Leinesfjord
    • Florida Sunsets
    • Hamsun’s Home – 2017
    • Lofoten Landscape
    • Moonrise over Northerly Island
    • Pattern in Precast
    • Pieces of a Whole?
    • Reykjavik Sunset
    • Self Portrait – 2016
    • Urbs in Horto
    • Waldeinsamkeit
    • Windy City Skyline
    • Þingvellir Vista – Iceland
  • Writings
    • Architecture
    • Travel
    • Miscellaneous
  • About Me
  • Etsy Shop
  • CV / Portfolio
  • Email Me
Follow on Instagram
All images are author's own unless noted otherwise and are copyrighted. Fair use is allowed, but please properly cite author and website when using.
© 2018 Josh Mings Studio

Tag: Chicago

Farnsworth House – Mies van der Rohe

May 19, 2017May 17, 2017 Josh MingsArchitecture, Chicago, Landscape, Mies van der Rohe, Photography, Thoughts, Writing

Seemingly like the other architects I know in Chicago, a few years back I made my way to the Farnsworth House in Plano. I mean it was so heavily hyped in architectural history classes and as a modern masterpiece that […]

Continue reading ➞ Farnsworth House – Mies van der Rohe

WMS Boathouse at Clark Park – Studio Gang

April 28, 2017April 27, 2017 Josh MingsArchitecture, Chicago, Photography, Studio Gang, Thoughts, Writing

The boathouse so nice, they built it twice – and for good reason. The boathouse in Clark Park, coupled with the one in Bridgeport and the continued expansion of river walks around the city, are part of Mayor Emanuel’s attempt […]

Continue reading ➞ WMS Boathouse at Clark Park – Studio Gang

Poetry Foundation – John Ronan

April 21, 2017April 19, 2017 Josh MingsArchitecture, Chicago, John Ronan, Photography, Thoughts, Writing

Bringing it back to Chicago now, one of my favorite buildings in the city is a small, unassuming 2-story building in the heart of River North – John Ronan’s Poetry Foundation. The building shields itself from the city, causing an […]

Continue reading ➞ Poetry Foundation – John Ronan

In the Sketchbook

March 16, 2017March 20, 2017 Josh MingsArchitecture, Austria, Berlin, Blackwell, Chicago, Fehn, Germany, HdeM, Indianapolis, Libeskind, Norway, Sketching, Snohetta, Steven Holl, Studio Gang, Travel

A #tbt post today – looking back at some of the sketches I have made on my travels over the years. One of them you’ll see later in the post made me instantly want to go back. I’ll let you […]

Continue reading ➞ In the Sketchbook

Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral – Louis Sullivan

December 8, 2012December 25, 2016 Josh MingsArchitecture, Chicago, Photography, Sullivan, Writing

As I enter my third month here in Chicago, I am starting to get a deeper read on the city. While I know this read and journey will delve deeper and deeper as the years pass in Chicago, I’ve started […]

Continue reading ➞ Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral – Louis Sullivan

University of Chicago

November 10, 2012December 25, 2016 Josh MingsArchitecture, Chicago, Eero Saarinen, FLW, Jahn, Mies, Photography, TWBTA, Writing

Today’s adventure took me to the South Side of Chicago to explore the campus of the University to Chicago. One of the principals of the firm and her husband extolled on how beautiful the campus was, and they were right, […]

Continue reading ➞ University of Chicago

Unity Temple / Oak Park – Frank Lloyd Wright

October 28, 2012December 25, 2016 Josh MingsArchitecture, Chicago, FLW, Photography, Writing

The last couple months have been a bit of a whirlwind, but as some of you may know I now live and work in Chicago. I’m still getting settled in and am currently making a master list of everything to […]

Continue reading ➞ Unity Temple / Oak Park – Frank Lloyd Wright

Chicago, My Kind of Town

September 4, 2012December 26, 2016 Josh MingsArchitecture, Chicago, John Ronan, Krueck and Sexton, Photography, Renzo Piano, SOM, Studio Gang, Sullivan, Writing

Cloud Gate – Anish Kapoor Ah Chicago, how I love thee! As some of you may know, I’ve been putting together a move to the city and have taken trips the past couple of weeks for interviews. Since I have […]

Continue reading ➞ Chicago, My Kind of Town
Proudly powered by WordPress