Villa Savoye And Barcelona Pavilion, In Gingerbread

Four major Chicago-area architectural firms took up the challenge of designing gingerbread houses — in one case, a village of them. Blair Kamin offers critiques: “The design achieves the clean-lined, sculptural look the architect desired, in part because the baker tossed out rigid gingerbread for the curving rooftop walls and substituted more malleable fondant.”