Stewart Hicks

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Takes on Buildings and Cities. I'm based in Chicago and make videos that explore and explain the built environment. Stewart Hicks is an architectural design ...

Latest Videos

How TV Made American Homes Feel Fake

The Controversy Over Doorless Elevators

Why This Tiny Apartment is Taking Over American Cities

Why O’Hare Will Never Be Finished

Why A-Frame Houses Don't Work

How Comfort Slowly Broke the American Home

Why These Rooms Disappeared From Our Homes

The Fire That Invented the School Fire Drill

How Fake Buildings Keep Cities Alive

How a Bombproof Building Works

Why Buildings Stopped Spinning

Why Futuristic Buildings Age So Badly

Why Blueprints Made Buildings Worse

What Makes THIS the Safest House in Los Angeles

Inside the Hyatt Regency Skywalk Collapse

The Perfectly Optimized Building for Late Capitalism

How Severance Uses Architecture as Mind Control

How Caulk Accidentally Made Buildings FLAT

Why Can’t American Cities Build 3-Flats Anymore

Falsifying History by Destroying Cities

The Invention that Accidentally Made McMansions

How this Porch Shaped Modern Democracy

Inside the Station Nightclub Tragedy

How Reality TV Houses Are Built to Break People

How Polling Places Can Sway Elections

How Upside-Down Models Revolutionized Architecture

The Absurd Superficiality of Suburban Homes

Why Retail Spaces Are Becoming Hyper-Physical

Forgotten Innovations of a Perfect Town

The Existential Dread of False Ceilings