[image via StrangeSystems]

I'm off on my first-ever trip to Chicago tomorrow, and one of the top recommendations from friends has been to take a formal architectural tour while there.  I'm looking forward to that, for sure.  Since I've being doing a lot of work fine-tuning web type with CSS lately, while also preparing for an architectural tour, I started wondering how much verbiage has been spilled on typography and architecture, both topics at once.  Just the kind of random thought one can have these days and get immediate, exhaustive information from the interwebs.  Google returns about 1.7 million pages with both keywords.  Having read through them all by now – all of the first few pages, that is – it seems like the better verbiage is along the lines of this AIGA post by Virginia Smith, covering the modernist design style across the arts.  I loved her line "Graphic design repeats in miniature what architecture does monumentally."  Kind of an interesting thing to consider.