The Chicago School Of Architecture

Author : Carl W. Condit
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226114554

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The Chicago School of Architecture by Carl W. Condit Pdf

This thoroughly illustrated classic study traces the history of the world-famous Chicago school of architecture from its beginnings with the functional innovations of William Le Baron Jenney and others to their imaginative development by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. The Chicago School of Architecture places the Chicago school in its historical setting, showing it at once to be the culmination of an iron and concrete construction and the chief pioneer in the evolution of modern architecture. It also assesses the achievements of the school in terms of the economic, social, and cultural growth of Chicago at the turn of the century, and it shows the ultimate meaning of the Chicago work for contemporary architecture. "A major contribution [by] one of the world's master-historians of building technique."—Reyner Banham, Arts Magazine "A rich, organized record of the distinguished architecture with which Chicago lives and influences the world."—Ruth Moore, Chicago Sun-Times

Author : Rolf Achilles
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780747813811

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The Chicago School of Architecture by Rolf Achilles Pdf

The birth of the skyscraper in Chicago in the mid-1880s introduced a new direction for city architecture: upwards. But how-and why- was it that Chicago set the standard for high-rise buildings, not only across the USA but all over the world? Rolf Achilles here introduces the style of the First Chicago School from 1880 to 1910, explaining the innovative use of iron frames for strength, height and openness, and the ubiquity of gridded window arrangements. With reference to such famous architects as William Le Baron Jenny and Frank Lloyd Wright, and colorful pictures of, among many others, the Reliance, Brooks and Marquette buildings, this book is a fascinating exploration of the structures that helped to give Chicago its identity, and the world a new way of building.

Author : Hugh C. Miller,United States. National Park Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015025999197

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The Chicago School of Architecture by Hugh C. Miller,United States. National Park Service Pdf

Author : John Zukowsky,Martha Thorne
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architectural drawing
ISBN : 0847825965

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Masterpieces of Chicago Architecture by John Zukowsky,Martha Thorne Pdf

Over 200 illustrations drawn from the Art Institute of Chicago's repository of architectural drawings, models, and building fragments present a striking record of Chicago's great buildings and structures.

Author : Thomas Leslie
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780252094798

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Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934 by Thomas Leslie Pdf

For more than a century, Chicago's skyline has included some of the world's most distinctive and inspiring buildings. This history of the Windy City's skyscrapers begins in the key period of reconstruction after the Great Fire of 1871 and concludes in 1934 with the onset of the Great Depression, which brought architectural progress to a standstill. During this time, such iconic landmarks as the Chicago Tribune Tower, the Wrigley Building, the Marshall Field and Company Building, the Chicago Stock Exchange, the Palmolive Building, the Masonic Temple, the City Opera, Merchandise Mart, and many others rose to impressive new heights, thanks to innovations in building methods and materials. Solid, earthbound edifices of iron, brick, and stone made way for towers of steel and plate glass, imparting a striking new look to Chicago's growing urban landscape. Thomas Leslie reveals the daily struggles, technical breakthroughs, and negotiations that produced these magnificent buildings. He also considers how the city's infamous political climate contributed to its architecture, as building and zoning codes were often disputed by shifting networks of rivals, labor unions, professional organizations, and municipal bodies. Featuring more than a hundred photographs and illustrations of the city's physically impressive and beautifully diverse architecture, Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871–1934 highlights an exceptionally dynamic, energetic period of architectural progress in Chicago.

Author : Joseph Siry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1988-11-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226761363

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Carson Pirie Scott by Joseph Siry Pdf

Long recognized as a Chicago landmark, the Carson Pirie Scott Building also represents a milestone in the development of architecture. The last large commercial structure designed by Louis Sullivan, the Carson building reflected the culmination of the famed architect's career as a creator of tall steel buildings. In this study, Joseph Siry traces the origins of the building's design and analyzes its role in commercial, urban, and architectural history.

Author : Jay Pridmore
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226107370

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Building Ideas by Jay Pridmore Pdf

Many books have been written about the University of Chicago over its 120-year history, but most of them focus on the intellectual environment, favoring its great thinkers and their many breakthroughs. Yet for the students and scholars who live and work here, the physical university—its stately buildings and beautiful grounds—forms an important part of its character. Building Ideas: An Architectural Guide to the University of Chicago explores the environment that has supported more than a century of exceptional thinkers. This photographic guide traces the evolution of campus architecture from the university’s founding in 1890 to its plans for the twenty-first century. When William Rainey Harper, the university’s first president, and the trustees decided to build a set of Gothic quadrangles, they created a visual link to European precursors and made a bold statement about the future of higher education in the United States. Since then the university has regularly commissioned forward-thinking architects to design buildings that expand—or explode—traditional ideals while redefining the contemporary campus. Full of panoramic photographs and exquisite details, Building Ideas features the work of architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Ives Cobb, Holabird & Roche, Eero Saarinen, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Netsch, Ricardo Legorreta, Rafael Viñoly, César Pelli, Helmut Jahn, and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. The guide also includes guest commentaries by prominent architects and other notable public figures. It is the perfect collection for Chicago alumni and students, Hyde Park residents and visitors, and anyone inspired by the institutional ideas and aspirations of architecture.

Author : Lee Bey
Publisher : Second to None: Chicago Storie
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0810140985

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Southern Exposure by Lee Bey Pdf

Southern Exposure is the definitive guide to the often overlooked architectural riches of Chicago's South Side by architecture expert and former Chicago Sun-Times architecture writer Lee Bey.

Author : Joanna Merwood-Salisbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015080858395

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Chicago 1890 by Joanna Merwood-Salisbury Pdf

Chicago's first skyscrapers are famous for projecting the city's modernity around the world. But what did they mean at home, to the Chicagoans who designed and built them, worked inside their walls, and gazed up at their façades? Answering this multifaceted question, Chicago 1890 reveals that early skyscrapers offered hotly debated solutions to the city's toughest problems and, in the process, fostered an urban culture that spread across the country. An ambitious reinterpretation of the works of Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, and John Wellborn Root, this volume uses their towering achievements as a lens through which to view late nineteenth-century urban history. Joanna Merwood-Salisbury sheds new light on many of Chicago's defining events--including violent building trade strikes, the Haymarket bombing, the World's Columbian Exposition, and Burnham's Plan of Chicago--by situating the Masonic Temple, the Monadnock Building, and the Reliance Building at the center of the city's cultural and political crosscurrents. While architects and property owners saw these pioneering structures as manifestations of a robust American identity, immigrant laborers and social reformers viewed them as symbols of capitalism's inequity. Illuminated by rich material from the period's popular press and professional journals, Merwood-Salisbury's chronicle of this contentious history reveals that the skyscraper's vaunted status was never as inevitable as today's skylines suggest.

Author : Thomas S. Hines
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226341729

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Burnham of Chicago by Thomas S. Hines Pdf

Daniel Burnham was the man who is largely responsible for the appearance of Chicago today, particularly the lake front parks. With his partner, John W. Root, he designed and built the first skyscrapers and the World's Columbian Exposition.--Publisher description.

Author : Blair Kamin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226423220

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Why Architecture Matters by Blair Kamin Pdf

This text collects the best of architecture critic Blair Kamin's columns. Using Chicago as a barometer of national design trends, the book sheds light on the state of American architecture during 'the Nervous Nineties'.

Author : Jay Pridmore
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0764920219

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Sears Tower by Jay Pridmore Pdf

The Nation's Largest Retailer wanted the largest headquarters in the nation, and they got it -- in spades. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the 110-story, anodized aluminum-clad Sears Tower occupies three acres in the West Loop. The bundled-tube construction allowed for more windows and more corner offices per square foot. The total area within the Tower is 4.4 million square feet; the Sky Deck on the 103rd floor offers tremendous views and welcomes more than 1 million visitors yearly. When SOM realized that their design was only ten stories short of what was supposed to be the record-breaking height of the World Trade Center then under construction (1,368 feet), they broke the record, coming in at 1,454 feet. The move of Sears and Roebuck employees into the Tower was the biggest corporate move in American history. In the late 1980s Sears and Roebuck left the building, but it continues to thrive, a timeless monument to American ingenuity.

Author : Werner Blaser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Architects
ISBN : UCAL:B4359036

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Mies Van Der Rohe, Furniture and Interiors by Werner Blaser Pdf

Author : Jay Pridmore
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1419732315

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Chicago Architecture and Design (3rd edition) by Jay Pridmore Pdf

Third edition of Chicago architecture and design / George A. Larson, Jay Pridmore; with photography by Hedrich-Blessing. 1993. Second edition published 2005.

Author : John Zukowsky,Mark J. Bouman
Publisher : Prestel Pub
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3791323458

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Chicago Architecture and Design, 1923-1993 by John Zukowsky,Mark J. Bouman Pdf