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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.
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.
Chicago Architecture and WWII This week the Art Institute began presenting an exhibition entitled "1945: Creativity and Crisis, Chicago Architecture and Design of the World War II Era." An overview: "Nineteen forty-five was a pivotal year that marked not only the end of the...
The Nathan G. Moore House - Frank Lloyd Wright Facts and photo for the Tudor style Nathan G. Moore House by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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.
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) Towers for Tomorrow - Art Institute of Chicago's travelling exhibit on skyscrapers - Brief Article
Local climates and social mores assert their influence as the epic competition for the world's tallest skyscraper continues into the 21st century. A ......(Continue Reading)Sullivanesque: Urban Architecture and Ornamentation/The Chicago Auditorium Building: Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City
Sullivanesque: Urban Architecture and Ornamentation. By Ronald E. Schmitt (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp. x, 350. 156 photographs ......(Continue Reading)Chicago, Chicago
CHICAGO is a city of world-class status and unsurpassed beauty, drawing visitors from around the nation and the globe, including members of the National ......(Continue Reading)Living large: any addition will boost a home's square footage. But the best ones go further: They introduce style and function while blending in with what's
Symmetry and formality were right at home in 1926, when starched collars were a wardrobe standard and when this Chicago-area Colonial was built. The ......(Continue Reading)
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