For many people, no form of artistic expression makes a bigger impression on their daily lives than architecture. Most days, Americans move from one building to the next in a circle of life that generally begins and ends at home, with schools, offices, and various businesses in between. Architects are heavy-lifter visionaries who do the hard job of marrying aesthetics and utility, etching dreams and concepts on paper that must then be built-and reliably function-in the real world. Sometimes it all comes together-and sometimes it doesn’t. There are feats, failures, and fairly-goods in every field. Not every building we set foot in needs to be a masterpiece, of course, but it’s more interesting when it is.