The Victorian styled warehouse at 1501 Guilford Ave, was built in 1897 to house an industrial factory for the newly invented bottle cap. But the warehouse of today is known as the Copycat building and is home for the creative class of Baltimore, Maryland. The residents share  live/work spaces that are built, torn down, and rebuilt to fit the needs of their creative practice. An industrial past continues to loom from within their spaces as the concrete floors are scarred with river-like cracks, chunks of leftover metal stick through the ceilings, freight elevators squeal past each floor, and radiator pipes rattle to heat the 165,000 square foot building. The residents continue to build upon an enigma of creativity and innovation that the landmark building possess.

The Copycat Book is a 140-page, 12×12″ hardcover featuring portraits of 130 residents from within their live/work spaces and unravels a complete linear history of the building from an industrial powerhouse to the avant-garde culture of creativity that is being defined today.

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