Main entry:

Andrews, Wayne.

Title & Author:

Architecture in Chicago & mid-America : a photographic history / Wayne Andrews.

Edition:

1st Icon ed.

Publication:

New York : Harper & Row, 1973, ©1968.

Description:

xviii, 186 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 29 cm

Series:

Icon editions

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-182) and index.
Introduction: Chicago is where it happened -- Pockets of resistance -- The romantic years -- "Things very ancient never, for some mysterious reason, appear vulgar" -- Henry Hobson Richardson -- Wilson Eyre, Jr. -- Henry Ives Cobb -- Peabody & Stearns -- Harvey Ellis -- Solon Spencer Beman -- William Le Baron Jenney -- Holabird & Roche -- Burnham & Root -- D.H. Burnham & Co. -- Louis H. Sullivan -- The World's Fair of 1893 -- The early work of Frank Lloyd Wright -- The Chicago School -- Alden B. Dow -- Eclectics in the Middle West -- The return of Frank Lloyd Wright -- Albert Kahn -- Eliel Saarinen -- Eliel and Eero Saarinen -- Eero Saarinen -- Ludwig Miës Van Der Rohe -- Skidmore, Owings & Merrill -- Minoru Yamasaki -- Marcel Breuer -- Ralph Rapson/Bertrand Goldberg -- Harry M. Weese -- R. Buckminster Fuller -- Meathe, Kessler & Associates.

Summary:

Portrays the important buildings of the Middle West from the days of the Greek and Gothic Revivals to the present. Includes Mansions in the Chicago area, Chicago skyscrapers, as well as architecture at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893.

ISBN:

0064300439 (pbk.)
9780064300438 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture Illinois Chicago.
Architecture Middle West.
Architecture Midwest (États-Unis)
Architecture
Architektur
Illinois Chicago
Middle West
USA

Added entries:

Icon editions.

Architecture in Chicago and mid-America

Holdings:

Location: Library main 92115
Call No.: ID NA738.A6; ID:95-B7
Status: Available