Title & Author:

Midwest architecture journeys / edited by Zach Mortice ; introduction by Alexandra Lange.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Cleveland, Ohio : Belt Publishing, [2019]
©2019

Description:

287 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Alexandra Lange -- SECTION 1: JOURNEYS -- Out of Earth: The Cahokia Mounds and the Radix of Midwestern Monuments / Jordan Hicks -- Silos, Celebrated and Lonesome / Lynn Freehill-Maye -- Under the Big Dome: The Modernist Nightmare That Buried Little Harlem / Dante A. Ciampaglia -- The Geo-ornithology of Detroit / Bryan Boyer -- Flea Market Urbanism / Samantha Sanders -- SECTION 2: PEOPLE -- Making Nature Present: Frank Lloyd Wright's Magazine House in Iowa / Daniel Naegele -- Louis Sullivan in Central Ohio / Milenko Budimir -- The Flamboyant Futurism of Bruce Goff / Allison C. Meier -- Bertrand Goldberg's Temple to Futures Past / Zach Mortice -- David Haid's Archive / Joe Frank -- Lillian Leenhouts's Milwaukee Eco-Socialism / Monica Obniski -- The Packard Presence in Columbus, Ohio / Amanda Page -- Stories in the Stones: Earl Young's Boulder Buildings / Jonathan Rinck -- The Architecture of Fermilab: Building a Quirky Science Lab in the Middle of an Illinois Cornfield / Matthew R. Francis -- "The Projects": Lost Public Housing Towers of the Midwest / Michael R. Allen -- SECTION 3: PLACES -- Finding the Sacred in the Secrets of Christ Church Lutheran, Minneapolis / Sophie Durbin -- Estranged Twin Cities: Gary and Magnitogorsk / Eric Lawler -- How the Purcell-Cutts House Defined Modernity, and Me / Jennifer Komar Olivarez -- Beneath the Cross in Bronzeville / Mark Clemens -- The Flat Lots of Flint: A Liminal State of Mind / Bob Campbell -- Please Return Again / Monica Reida -- Zion in Lawndale / Asher Kohn -- Flex Cleveland / Erik Piepenburg -- SECTION 4: MIDWESTERN VERNACULAR -- Mausoleums / Amy Elliott Bragg -- Iowa Rest Areas as Cultural Landscape: A Journey in Haiku / Randy Brown -- Groundscraper City: Touring the Subterranean Structures of Minneapolis-St. Paul, 1978-1983 / Andy Sturdevant -- Form Follows Values: New Glarus Brewing Company's Hilltop Brewery / Bill Savage -- From Spectacular to Vernacular / David M. Trubek -- Yesterday’s Tomorrow: The Afterlife of the Century of Progress Homes of Tomorrow / Lindsay Fullerton -- Ruin and Porn / Ryan Scavnicky -- An Abridged History of the Tallest Buildings in the Midwest / Corey Smith.

Summary:

"Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright may be the Midwest's (and the nation's) most famous architects, but the region has always been a fertile ground for builders master and amateur. Midwest Architecture Journeys takes readers on a trip to visit some of the region's most inventive buildings by architects such as Bertrand Goldberg, Bruce Goff, and Lillian Leenhouts. It also includes stops at less obvious but equally daring and defining sites, such as indigenous mounds, grain silos, parking lots, flea markets, and abandoned warehouses. Through dozens of essays written by architects, critics, and journalists, Midwest Architecture Journeys argues that what might seem flat is actually monumental, and what we assume to be boring is brimming with experimentation."-- Amazon.com

ISBN:

9781948742573 (hardcover)
1948742578 (hardcover)

Subject:

Architecture Middle West History 20th century.
Architecture Midwest (États-Unis) Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Middle West.

Form/genre:

Essay
essays.
History.
Essays.
Essais.

Added entries:

Mortice, Zach, editor.
Lange, Alexandra, writer of introduction.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307196
Call No.: BIB 252688
Status: Available