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Dear Elia,

You were, without question, the masters' teacher, and an inspiration to generations of architects.

More importantly, now that the age of masters is over and its stars seem to be fading, you will be remembered as the tireless mentor of thousands of students—patiently drawing out the best of their aspirations and creativity, like a Socratic midwife.

You knew that teaching was the only way forward—and the only way to preserve architecture in all its disarming beauty and conceptual wilderness: architecture as a project, as an idea before anything else.

Thank you for Exodus and La Villette with @oma.eu ; for the Sphinx Hotel and the archipelago of villas in Antiparos (with Zoe Zenghelis); for the Immeuble Cité and for your studios with @dogma.name at the Berlage Institute (@theberlage); and for the million other stories and references you shared with us, Behemoth Press and Matteo Mannini.

Thank you for your quiet humility, for preaching the value of architecture as a collective effort against the cult of personality, and, in the same spirit, for praising the importance of “a radically simplified architecture: an architecture without originality, but an architecture that becomes strategic, that employs a common language, that is communicable, understood, accepted and observed by all, as it has always been throughout history (…) an architecture that is more important and less self-important.”

It was an honor to teach and work with you. I am sure that, if I ever meet you again, I will find you somewhere—sitting at a table reviewing a student’s work, having a drink and talking about architecture, or simply walking your dogs, already thinking about the drawings for the next competition.

Ciao,
FM

(photo: PhD @bk.tudelft, May 2014)

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St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital
Todd E. Wheeler & Sheldon Schlegman
(Perkins Wheeler & Will)
Chicago, 1975

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Chicago, 2026 by @genericarchitecture

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320 West Oakdale
Milton M. Schwartz
Chicago, 1954

© Francesco Marullo
Chicago, 2026 by @genericarchitecture

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Commonwealth Promenade Apartments
Mies van der Rohe
Chicago, 1956

© Francesco Marullo
Chicago, 2026 by @genericarchitecture

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New Jackson Hotel
formerly Farwell House
Chicago, 1878

©️Francesco Marullo
Chicago, 2026

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Brewster Apartments
aka the Lincoln Park Palace
(Enock Hill Turnock)
1893

©️Francesco Marullo
Chicago, 2026

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All Magnificent and Wild
The Loop, seen from Printer’s Row, with the Manhattan Building, the Monadnock Building, the Plymouth Building, the Old Colony Building, the Fisher Building, the Standard Club, the Board of Trade, the Metropolitan Correctional Center, and the Federal Center, among others..

©️Francesco Marullo
Chicago, 2026

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If you’re in Chicago, join us this afternoon at 6 p.m. at the @mascontext Reading Room! I'll present my ongoing research project on Chicago residential hotels "All Magnificent and Wild" followed by a conversation with architect Dan Towler Weese, principal at Weese Langley Klein, and architect Susan King (grrrl_architect), principal at @hed_integrateddesign, who will share key affordable housing projects from their respective offices.

All Magnificent and Wild will remain on view at the MAS Context Reading Room through April 11, 2026.

1564 North Damen Avenue
Suite 204
Chicago, Illinois 60622

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Drawing and collage
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Mark Twain Hotel
(Harry Glube)
1930

Refurbished by Weese Langley Klein
2020 Driehaus Preservation Award for Rehabilitation

©️Francesco Marullo
Chicago, 2026

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Carling Hotel
(Edmund J. Meles)
1927

Refurbished by @lbba_architects
2019 Driehaus Preservation Award

©️Francesco Marullo
Chicago, 2026

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Found Hotel
formerly Olympia Hotel
1924

©️Francesco Marullo
Chicago, 2026

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"All Magnificent and Wild" is a work in progress: a set of notes on Chicago’s residential hotels—partial, provisional, and open to revision. What I am presenting at the MAS Context Reading Room is a selection from this broader project, organized into three sections: thirty-two case studies of historical residential hotels; five conjectural reconstructions of collective hobo institutions; and an ongoing photographic documentation of what stubbornly persists—indifferent to time, disinvestment, and the pressures of gentrification. The exhibition also includes excerpts from historical documentaries, including Tom Palazzolo’s Pigeon Lady (1966), courtesy of the author and the Chicago Film Archives. Many thanks to @uicsoa @uic_cada @mascontext @ikergil @jcmichiels @hullhousemuseum @chicagofilmarchives @chicagomuseum #tompalazzolo

The exhibition will stay on view until April 11
MAS Context Reading Room
1564 North Damen Avenue, Suite 204
Chicago (visit by appointment)

Images credit:
©️ Francesco Marullo, 2026

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