![]() ![]() Subject headings Architecture- Illinois- Chicago. "Offering new insights on Chicago public housing and O'Hare International Airport, on the Columbian Exposition and Marina City, on the city's grid system and the place of women architects in the story of Chicago modernism, and on the subjective experience of living inside Chicago's most well-known buildings, Chicago Architecture is a work of enormous scope and vision."-Jacket. This searching volume illuminates the importance of photographs, books, magazines, and other media in the cultivation of an international audience for Chicago architecture it explores the pivotal role of real estate developers, finance and insurance sectors, and speculative capital markets in the development of the city itself and perhaps most notably, it examines a wide variety of overlooked architectural works and their creators - individuals who did not fit into the dominant modernist narrative." Together with an esteemed group of contributors they assert that the mythic status of Chicago architecture has distorted our understanding of the historical circumstances in which it was realized. "In Chicago Architecture, Charles Waldheim and Katerina Ruedi Ray revise and offer alternatives to the archetypal story of modern architecture in Chicago. Bradford Hunt.īas-relief urbanism: Chicago's figured field / Sarah Whiting.įrom operational anonymity to brand identity: Chicago O'Hare / Charles Waldheim.įrom flesh to fiberglass: "Cows on parade" in Chicago / C. Understanding Chicago's high-rise public housing disaster / D. Opposing Mies: the triangular constructs of Harry Weese / Leah Ray.ĭiminishing high-rise public housing / Janet L. Systematic genius: Walter Netsch and the architecture of bureaucracy / David Goodman. Walter Netsch: field theory / Martin Felsen and Sarah Dunn. Making Marina City: men, money, masquerade and modernity / Katerina Rüedi Ray. Wish you were here: Alvin Boyarsky's picture postcards / Igor Marjanović.īertrand Goldberg: a personal view of architecture / Geoffrey Goldberg. The architectural photography of Hedrich-Blessing / Robert A. The Chicago parks: tableaus of naturalization / Jane Wolff. The third Chicago school?: marking sexual and ethnic identity / Christopher Reed. Marion Mahoney Griffin: the Chicago years / Pamela Hill. Inside Mies: living at 860/880 Lake Shore Drive / Janet Abrams.ġ614 North Hermitage Avenue: painting as inscription / Julia Fish.Ī century of progress: an alternate tale / Lee Bey. More than Mies: architecture of Chicago mulitfamily housing, 1935-65 / Eric Mumford. Preservation and renewal in post-World War II Chicago / Daniel Bluestone. Rainey.ĭoes Frank Lloyd Wright belong in Chicago's architectural history? / Sidney K. ![]() William Le Baron Jenney and Chicago's West parks: from prairies to pleasure- grounds / Reuben M. The centrality of the Columbian Exposition in the history of Chicago architecture / David Van Zanten. Myth of the Chicago school / Robert Bruegmann. Western architecture: regionalism and race in the Inland architect / Joanna Merwood. Introduction: Chicago is history / Charles Waldheim and Katerina Rüedi Ray. Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-407) and index. Outgrowth of a symposium, Chicago is history, held in the fall of 2001. Uniform series Chicago architecture and urbanism. URL Other contributors Waldheim, Charles. Xxiii, 418 pages : illustrations (some color) 26 cm. Chicago architecture : histories, revisions, alternatives / edited by Charles Waldheim and Katerina Rüedi Ray.Ĭhicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005. ![]()
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