Tag: LaChiusa
saturday february 23rd 2008
Mr. Architecture: Chuck LaChiusa
After teaching English at City Honors High school for 26 years, Chuck LaChiusa is enjoying a second career as a tour guide and speaker, an outgrowth of his 11-year-old hobby involving the study of Architecture.
Around 1995, LaChiusa and his wife Nancy attended a meeting of the Erie County Preservation Coalition, and he raised his hand when they called for a photographer to begin documenting the architecture in and around Erie County. "I was hooked immediately," LaChiusa said. Starting with photos of a few buildings, his collection grew and grew.
"I started with photos, but then I got involved with vocabulary and history," LaChiusa said. Starting with a rudimentary knowledge of computers that was cultivated as a result of a grant to City Honors from poet Robert Creely, LaChiusa maintained a site for his students to publish poetry. "I learned the mechanics of it there," he said. His burgeoning architectural website is a far cry from those meager beginnings.
LaChiusa said he an…
