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Title Chicago architecture, 1872-1922 : birth of a metropolis / edited by John Zukowsky ; with essays by Robert Bruegmann ... [and others]
Published München, Federal Republic of Germany : Prestel-Verlag ; [Chicago] : the Art Institute of Chicago, [1987]
©1987

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Description 480 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
regular print
Contents Introduction to internationalism in Chicago architecture / John Zukowsky -- Chicago's secular apocalypse: the Great Fire and the emergence of the democratic hero / Ross Miller -- The iron skeleton frame: interactions between Europe and the United States / Gerald R. Larson -- The Chicago multistory as a design problem / Heinrich Klotz -- Buildings serving commerce / C.W. Westfall -- An early German contribution to Chicago's modernism / Roula M. Geraniotis -- Paris by the lake: sources of Burnham's plan of Chicago / Joan E. Draper -- Chicago: a French view / Henri Loyrette -- Shopping- Chicago style / Neil Harris -- Paris of the 1880s and the Rookery / Meredith L. Clausen -- Solon Spencer Beman, Pullman, and the European influence on and interest in his Chicago architecture / Thomas J. Schlereth -- International influences on Henry Hobson Richardson's Glessner House / Elaine Harrington -- Chicago and the international Arts and Crafts movement: progressive and conservative tendencies / Richard Guy Wilson -- Louis H. Sullivan's ornament and the poetics of architecture / Lauren S. Weingarden -- Sullivan and the orders of architecture / Dr Martha Pollak -- From homes to towers: a century of Chicago's best hotels and tall apartment buildings / C.W. Westfall -- As if the lights were always shining: Graham, Anderson, Probst and White's Wrigley Building at the boulevard link / Sally Chappell -- When worlds collided: European and American entries to the Chicago Tribune competition of 1922 / Robert Bruegmann -- Walter Burley Griffin's design for Canberra, the capital of Australia / David Van Zanten -- Chicago: a personal view / Stanley Tigerman -- Plates. From the Great Fire to the Twentieth Century: major and minor masterpieces Chicago's architectural heroes: Louis H. Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Daniel H. Burnham Three events that shaped Chicago: the World's Columbian Exposition, the plan of Chicago, and the Tribune Tower competition -- Catalogue / John Zukowsky
Notes Exhibition held at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, and the Art Institute of Chicago
Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [467]-473
Subject Griffin, Walter Burley, 1876-1937.
Chicago School of Architecture.
Architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Exhibitions.
Architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
Architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Architecture, Modern -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
Architecture, Modern -- 19th century -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Exhibitions.
Architecture, Modern -- 19th century -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Exhibitions.
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Exhibitions.
Architecture -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century -- Chicago -- Exhibitions.
Architecture, Modern -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 19th century.
Architecture, Modern -- United States -- 20th century -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Chicago school of architecture (Movement)
Prairie school (Architecture)
SUBJECT Chicago (Ill.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78086438 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Canberra (A.C.T.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021725
Chicago (Ill.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114625 -- Exhibitions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003003655
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Author Bruegmann, Robert.
Zukowsky, John, 1948-
Art Institute of Chicago.
Deutsches Architekturmuseum.
Musée d'Orsay.
LC no. 87062463
ISBN 086559077X (U.S. : pbk.)
3791308378