The language of architecture is unavoidably metaphorical: the windows of the soul, the doors of opportunity, the façade you present to the crowd. And when we talk about writing, we often use architectural language: scaffolding an idea, structuring a plot, world-building. Our panelists in “Gargoyles and Grotesques!” all approach architecture from different perspectives, as a historian, as a chronicler of fiction, and as a poet; yet they all honor the beauty and explore the complexity of human-made structures in their writing.