Category Archives: architecture

Golden Rose Window, Church of the Gesu

Posted on November 20, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

Took this photo last night of the Rose Window at the Church of the Gesu on the campus of Marquette University in downtown Milwaukee. To say I’m stunned by its beauty would be an understatement. Maybe I’ve just never seen … Continue reading →

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MILWAUKEE

Posted on November 12, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

Every morning I drive past the Milwaukee County Courthouse. A beautiful structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places, its rightful prominence in the cityscape has been shadowed for decades by poor planning (my opinion), by decisions made for … Continue reading →

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A Mondrianesque Elevator Shaft

Posted on November 4, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

I am SUPER BUSY at work right now, working crazy long hours and racing from one project deadline to the next. That’s what’s so funny about the current state of my phone’s camera roll: It is brimming with new photos … Continue reading →

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Moonrise over Church of the Gesu

Posted on October 30, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

Took this photo in the early evening on Monday of this week. Church of the Gesu (is on the campus of Marquette University, on Wisconsin Avenue at 12 Street, in downtown Milwaukee. (By the way, Gesu is pronounced JAY ZOO, … Continue reading →

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New “bloom patterns” type of origami introduces new possibilities in engineering

Posted on August 22, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

One of my favorite scenes in the movie Working Girl comes near the end, where our heroine, Tess (Melanie Griffith), seizes a last-ditch opportunity to stop her boss, Katherine (Sigourney Weaver) from stealing her deal. After Jack (Harrison Ford) corrals … Continue reading →

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Office Building Lobby

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

I had a meeting with a colleague this morning in a nearby office building’s large food court, which serves only coffee and prepackaged breakfast food in the mornings and is thus quite deserted during the 9:00 AM hour. While standing … Continue reading →

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Abstraction: Efflorescence on a Concrete Wall

Posted on November 22, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

This caught my eye this morning, and I immediately envisioned it as something that might make a nice abstract image in a photograph. I know what “efflorescence” is only because when I worked as a litigation paralegal many years ago, … Continue reading →

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Abstraction: Office Building Foyer

Posted on November 17, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

Just really liked the various lines and colors. The “whole” isn’t so interesting, but a closeup in isolation is kind of fun. For comparison, here’s the bigger picture of the building’s entrance, taken from farther away.

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Nature vs. Human — Two very different types of lines

Posted on November 29, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

No judgment here as far as one type of line being better than the other. They’re just very different. And each beautiful in its own way😀 Would you like new posts delivered to your inbox? To subscribe, click here.

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Happy Fibonacci Day!

Posted on November 23, 2021 by Katherine Wikoff

  Round . . . Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel . . . So begins one of my favorite songs, and it popped into my head this morning as soon as I realized … Continue reading →

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