Main entry:

Block, Jean F.

Title & Author:

The uses of Gothic : planning and building the campus of the University of Chicago, 1892-1932 / Jean F. Block.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Library, 1983.

Description:

xix, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 31 cm

Notes:
Exhibition held at the Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago, May-Sept. 1983.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / by Neil Harris -- Introduction -- Part I: Emergence of a plan and style, 1892-1900. Prologue: The gray city and the white city ; The Trustees' Committee in Buildings and Grounds ; A general recitation building ; A housing system for men ; A residential program for women ; Museums and pedagogy ; Laboratories for the sciences ; The end of the Cobb years -- Part II: Assimilation of Gothic forms, 1901-1916. Oxford comes to Chicago ; The Tower Group ; Charles Hitchcock Hall ; Questioning the style ; The plan revisited and refined ; An appropriate symbolism ; The union of exterior and interior ; The social value of Tudor domesticity -- Part III: Gothic's final efflorescence, 1926-1932. Burton's development program ; The plan brought to completion ; Gothic and the demands of science ; Modern Gothic and the Chapel Block ; Problems of size and scale ; The persistence of symbolism ; Minimal Gothic and the Field House ; Epilogue: A century of progress and the demise of Gothic -- Appendices: A. Landscaping by Olmsted Brothers ; B. Landscaping by Bennett, Parsons & Frost and Beatrix Farrand ; C. Buildings in brick ; D. Methods of construction ; E. Chronological building list, 1892-1932.

ISBN:

0943056020
9780943056029
0226060047
9780226060040

Subject:

University of Chicago Buildings History Exhibitions.
University of Chicago
Gothic revival (Architecture) Illinois Chicago Exhibitions.
Néo-gothique (Architecture) Illinois Chicago Expositions.
Buildings
Gothic revival (Architecture)
Illinois Chicago
Illinois Chicago Universities University of Chicago Buildings Architecture 1892-1932

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

University of Chicago. Library.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 9993
Call No.: IDM EXHCHICAGO; ID:85-B5815
Status: Available

Location: Library main m 9992
Call No.: POM1665 EXHCHICAGO; ID:85-B5815
Status: Available