The Chicago school of architecture : a history of commercial and public building in the Chicago area, 1875-1925.

Main entry:

Condit, Carl W.

Title & Author:

The Chicago school of architecture : a history of commercial and public building in the Chicago area, 1875-1925.

Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1964.

Description:

xviii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
"Revised and enlarged from `The rise of the skyscraper ... 1952'."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-225).
I. Architecture in the nineteenth century -- II. Chicago : 1871 -- III. New forms in traditional materials -- IV. Jenney and the new structural technique -- V. Burnham and Root -- VI. D.H. Burnham and Company -- VII. Holabird and Roche -- VIII. Adler and Sullivan -- IX. In the wake of the pioneers -- X. Hotels and apartments -- XI. The Chicago School in the twentieth century.

Summary:

"This thoroughly illustrated classic study traces the history of the world-famous Chicago school of architecture from its beginnings with the functional innovation of William Le Baron Jenney and others to their imaginative development by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. The Chicago School of Architecture places the Chicago school in its historical setting, showing it at once to be the culmination of an iron and concrete construction and the chief pioneer in the evolution of modern architecture. It also assesses the achievements of the school in terms of the economic, social, and cultural growth of Chicago at the turn of the century, and it shows the ultimate meaning of the Chicago work for contemporary architecture."--Backcover

ISBN:

9780226114552
0226114554
0226114546
9780226114545

Subject:

Architecture Indonesia Chicago History.
Architecture United States History.
Architecture Illinois Chicago History.
Architecture Illinois Chicago Histoire.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire.
Architecture
Architektur
Illinois Chicago
United States
Chicago, Ill.
Architecture Civil United States C19th / C20th Movements and Schools Chicago.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 121714
Call No.: 9061; ID:85-B20640
Status: Available

Location: Library main 121713
Call No.: 8972 A623; ID:85-B20640
Status: Available

Location: Library main 121712
Call No.: 9314 A871; ID:85-B20640
Status: Available

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