| Edition |
1st Icon ed. |
| Description |
xviii, 186 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 29 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
"Icon editions." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-182) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago.
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Architecture -- Middle West.
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Architecture. (OCoLC)fst00813346
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Illinois -- Chicago.
(OCoLC)fst01204048
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Middle West. (OCoLC)fst01240052
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| Added Title |
Architecture in Chicago and mid-America |
| ISBN |
0064300439 (pbk.) |
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9780064300438 (pbk.) |
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