Next week I've scheduled time to go to Buffalo, NY and visit some grain elevators there and chat with designers from +FARM Studio who are working for three weeks on fabricating a pavilion along the Buffalo River funded by Rigidized Metals, a company invested in the grain elevators.

www.http://www.plusfarm.org/2014-tactical-tectonics-workshop/

Here are some things I've been producing from industrial building photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher's body of work on grain elevators:

Grain Elevators, Bernd and Hilla Becher

Becher, Bernd, and Hilla Becher. Grain Elevators. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2006. Print.

This is every U.S. grain elevator in Bernd and Hilla Becher's photography book of grain elevators that have a more vertical form than horizontal, all over-layed on top of each other.

This is every U.S. grain elevator in Bernd and Hilla Becher's photography book of grain elevators that have a more horizontal form than vertical, all over-layed on top of each other.

This is a theoretical elevation of the midwest's grain elevators, photographed by the Bechers, showing concentrations in overlays.