Main entry:

Keegan, Edward.

Title & Author:

Chicago architecture : 1885 to today / Edward Keegan ; foreword by Lynn J. Osmond.

Publication:

New York : Universe Pub., 2008.

Description:

223 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
"Chicago Architecture Foundation."
Introduction -- Glessner House -- Auditorium Building -- The Rookery -- Second Leiter Building -- The Monadnock -- Marquette Building -- Reliance Building -- Chicago Cultural Center -- Carson Pirie Scott & Co. -- Macy's State Street -- Robie House -- Wrigley Building -- Tribune Tower -- Carl Street Studies -- Chicago Board of Trade -- Merchandise Mart -- University Building -- Myron Bachman House -- 860-880 North Lake Shore Drive -- Crown Hall -- 30 West Monroe -- Marina City -- Richard J. Daley Center -- John Hancock Center -- McCormick Place -- Federal Center -- Sears Tower -- Metropolitan Correctional Facility -- Steel & Glass House -- 333 Wacker Drive -- James R. Thompson Center -- Harold Washington Library Center -- Little Village Academy -- Private Residence -- Republic Windows & Doors -- Archer Courts -- Soldier Field -- McCormick Tribune Campus Center -- Jay Pritzker Pavillion -- Contemporaine -- Hyatt Center -- Gary Comer Youth Center.

Summary:

Universally recognized as an architectural center, the city of Chicago contains some of the world's finest buildings by the most renowned architects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, Mies van der Rohe, and many more left their stamp on the city's skyline and as a result influenced the practice of architecture around the globe. This book, published in association with the city's foremost architectural institution, the Chicago Architectural Foundation, features an in-depth analysis of 42 buildings erected within the last two centuries that are considered to be the seminal works of Chicago architecture.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780789315335
0789315335

Subject:

Architecture Illinois Chicago.
Architecture Illinois.
Architecture
Buildings
Architektur
Städtebau
Chicago (Ill.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Illinois Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
Geschichte 1885-2006

Form/genre:

Bildband.

Added entries:

Chicago Architecture Foundation.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 257380
Call No.: BIB 187863
Status: Available