Main entry:

Schrenk, Lisa Diane.

Title & Author:

Building a century of progress : the architecture of Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair / Lisa D. Schrenk.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.

Description:

x, 357 pages, [16] pages of color plates : illustrations (some color), plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-343) and index.
Future begins -- Science finds-industry applies-man conforms -- Designing the city of color and delight -- Prefabricated palaces: formal designs of the pavilions -- Building innovations at the exposition -- Exposition houses of today and tomorrow -- Unbuilt visions for a modern exposition -- Contemporary reaction and impact of the exposition -- Curtain falls -- Major buildings and architects of a century of progress -- Color schemes of a century of progress.

Summary:

In the richly illustrated 'Building a Century of Process', Schrenk explores the pivotal role of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair in modern American architecture.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780816648368 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816648360 (hc ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Chicago <Ill.> / Weltausstellung <1933-1934>
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) Buildings.
Century of Progress International Exposition.
Century of Progress International Exposition 1933-1934 Chicago, Ill.
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.)
Exhibition buildings Illinois Chicago History 20th century.
Expositions Constructions Illinois Chicago Histoire 20e siècle.
Buildings.
Exhibition buildings.
Architektur
Ausstellungsbau
Chicago (Ill.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Illinois Chicago.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 255386
Call No.: BIB 185548
Status: Available