Chicago's Famous Buildings

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ere is the thoroughly revised and updated edition of the leading pocket guide to the greatest urban architecture in the United States. Since its first appearance in 1965, this
book has been the standard guide to Chicago's best buildings. This fourth edition covers more than a decade of extraordinary new architecture—and takes a fresh look back at the city's classical legacy of Adler, Sullivan, Burnham, Root, Wright, and Mies van der Rohe. Authoritative, informative, and supremely easy to use, the guide has been completely revised and updated with new maps, new photographs, and a host of other improvements:
ijf~ completely updated with new capsule descriptions of the most important new buildings, from Helmut Jahn's United Air Lines Terminal and State of Illinois Building to Hammond Beeby and Babka's Harold Washington Library Center and Kohn Pedersen Fox's 333 W. Wacker Drive descriptions of architecturally significant buildings that go far beyond the Loop—from the Frank Lloyd... Tovább

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ere is the thoroughly revised and updated edition of the leading pocket guide to the greatest urban architecture in the United States. Since its first appearance in 1965, this
book has been the standard guide to Chicago's best buildings. This fourth edition covers more than a decade of extraordinary new architecture—and takes a fresh look back at the city's classical legacy of Adler, Sullivan, Burnham, Root, Wright, and Mies van der Rohe. Authoritative, informative, and supremely easy to use, the guide has been completely revised and updated with new maps, new photographs, and a host of other improvements:
ijf~ completely updated with new capsule descriptions of the most important new buildings, from Helmut Jahn's United Air Lines Terminal and State of Illinois Building to Hammond Beeby and Babka's Harold Washington Library Center and Kohn Pedersen Fox's 333 W. Wacker Drive descriptions of architecturally significant buildings that go far beyond the Loop—from the Frank Lloyd Wright houses in Oak Park to Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth house in Piano reorganized by geographic location to be an even more effective walking guide f report on changes—for better or worse—to older buildings a list of important buildings demolished since the last edition a glossary of architectural terms and an extensive index
Franz Schulze is professor emeritus of art at Lake Forest College and author of Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography, published by the University of Chicago Press. Kevin Harrington is associate professor of humanities and architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Vissza