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Downtown Chicago: Architecture: Schools and Foundations: Showcasing downtown Chicago's architecture Links to all the awards, exhibitions, lectures, special events, and tours designed to showcase downtown Chicago's architecture, as well as information regarding the preservation of worthy architectural monuments in and around the Chicago area.
Downtown Chicago: Architecture: Famous Architects and their Landmark Buildings Chicago's architects and their landmark buildings, as well as the schools and foundations upholding Chicago's architectural tradition.
Chicago Architects Biographies and studies of famous architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, George Washington Maher, Irving and Allen Pond, Louis Henry Sullivan, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Richard Ernest Schmidt who helped shape downtown Chicago.
The Robie House - Frank Lloyd Wright The Robie House in Chicago is perhaps Frank Lloyd Wright's most famous Praire style home. Photo and resources.
Downtown Chicago: Architects: Famous Landmarks and Their Architects: Burnham, Beman, Boyington, Griffin, Holabird, and Jenney Famous landmarks in downtown Chicago and biographies of the architects who built them. Among them: Daniel Hudson Burnham, Solon Spencer Beman, W. W. Boyington, Walter Burley Griffin, William Holabird, and William Le Baron Jenney.
View from Chicago: as these recent projects show, the Windy City is still a place for grand civic gestures and innovative architecture, renewing a tradition
'Make no small plans,' declared Daniel Burnham. 'They have no magic to stir men's blood,' Burnham's vision shaped the 1893 World's Fair and the Chicago ......(Continue Reading) Less or more Miesian? In the midst of Chicago's famed I.I.T. campus, new buildings by Rem Koolhaas and Helmut Jahn offer radically diverse responses to
The Illinois Institute of Technology's chief claim to architectural fame rests with Mies van der Rohe, who was responsible for the plan of the Chicago ......(Continue Reading)Concertina: intelligent and amusing, Peter Elliott architecture's project for the Victoria University law school makes a fine contribution to the city.
In today's complex landscape, space has become something of perpetual reorganization; and virtual space something of an ironic safe haven. Cities that ......(Continue Reading)Concertina: intelligent and amusing, Peter Elliott architecture's project for the Victoria University law school makes a fine contribution to the city.
The airplanes that attacked the Twin Towers on September 11 unleashed forces of nature whose awesome magnitude is rarely experienced in modern cities....(Continue Reading)Construction of the soul - Ethics and Architecture symposium - Editorial
Eckenhoff Saunders Architects went back to school to design its next residential project. The 20-year-old Chicago firm, selected for its expertise in ......(Continue Reading)
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