Main entry:

Speyer, A. James, author.

Title & Author:

A. James Speyer : architect, curator, exhibition designer / the Arts Club of Chicago, Carnegie Museum of Art, the Heinz Architectural Center, National Technical University of Athens, School of Architecture.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Distributed by the University of Chicago Press
©1997

Description:

xi, 124 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, organized by Darthea Speyer and John Vinci, and held at the Arts Club of Chicago, Sept. 17-Nov. 1, 1997; Carnegie Museum of Art, the Heinz Architectural Center, Dec. 4, 1997-Mar. 22, 1998; and National Technical University of Athens, School of Architecture (spring 1998).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-122).
Remembering Jim Speyer / John Vinci -- Speyer's life and career / Franz Schulze -- The Speyer houses on Hydra / Dimitris Antonakakis -- Teacher and friend / Susana Antonakakis -- The art of installation / John Vinci -- Notes on acquisitions and gifts at the Art Institute of Chicago / Barbara Mirecki.
Also issued online.

Summary:

In 1938 James Speyer departed Harvard's School of Design in order to become Mies van der Rohe's first American graduate student at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago. During the 40s and 50s he taught architecture under Mies while at the same time, as an architect in his own right, he completed houses in Chicago and Pittsburgh that represented the cutting edge of new glass-and-steel design. In 1957 Speyer traveled to Greece on a Fulbright fellowship, where he taught at the Polytechneon in Athens; upon returning to America, he became Curator of Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago. He held this position for the next twenty-five years, and his tenure witnessed over 125 exhibitions and a remarkable expansion to the Institute's permanent collection.
This volume includes a biographical essay by Franz Schulze and six accounts from Speyer's friends and colleagues who remember different aspects of his life and work. Floor plans and photographs direct special attention to Speyer's extraordinary, ultra-modernist designs -- not only for houses but also for innovative exhibitions at the Art Institute during the 60s and 70s.

ISBN:

0966027310
9780966027310
0966027302
9780966027303

Subject:

Speyer, A. James Exhibitions.
Speyer, A. James Criticism and interpretation.
Speyer, A. James
Speyer, A. James, (1913-1986) Expositions.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Speyer, Darthea.
Vinci, John.
Arts Club of Chicago.
Heinz Architectural Center.
Ethniko Metsovio Polytechneio (Greece). Anōtatē Scholē Architektonōn.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 178860
Call No.: ID NA44.S752; ID:98-B135
Status: Available