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As a result of the Great Fire of 1871, Chicago became a major creative centre of American architecture. Talented architects flocked to the city in the fire's aftermath, and made use of new technology, such as the fireproof steel frame and the safety elevator to create what is considered to be the world's first skyscraper, and ultimately change the look of 20th-century cities. These innovations - which required the planning of structures from the inside out - can be seen in this book. This volume chronicles the work of architects Louis H. Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, as well as that of H.H. Richardson, John Welborn Root, William LeBaron Jenny and their successors. More than 70 important buildings are pictured - most with one exterior image and several views of the interior - spanning Richardson's 1887 Glessner House through The Rookery, Robie House, the Carson Pirie Scott & Company store, 860-880 North Lake Shore Drive and the current work of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Kohn Pedersen Fox and Cesar Pelli, among others. Biographical information about the leading architects is integrated with the architectural discussion.

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Jay Pridmore is a freelance writer and critic who has published several books on the architecture of Chicago. George A. Larson is chairman and director of design of Larson Associates, Chicago
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Chicago is known as an architect's city. Its buildings are bold and innovative, from the organic intricacies designed by Louis Sullivan around the turn of the century to the grand simplicity of Mies van der Rohe five decades later. Larson and Pridmore cover the evolution of modern architecture from the building boom after Chicago's Great Fire of 1871 through the 1992 completion of the Harold Washington Library. They review the careers of Chicago's seminal architects, including John Wellborn Root, William Holabird, Daniel Burnham, David Adler, Frank Lloyd Wright, and George Fred Keck and William Keck, "heroes of Chicago Modernism" during the 1930s. Moving forward in time, they discuss the work of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, the city's most influential builder during the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the controversial and flashy structures of Helmut Jahn, particularly the peculiar State of Illinois Building, which sits amid traditional downtown towers like a captured space station. Many of the 243 illustrations display the gracefully designed interiors of Chicago's finest buildings, a facet of architecture often neglected in such surveys. Donna Seaman

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  • PublisherHarry N. Abrams
  • Publication date1993
  • ISBN 10 0810931923
  • ISBN 13 9780810931923
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages256

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