Title & Author:

Chicago architecture : histories, revisions, alternatives / edited by Charles Waldheim and Katerina Rüedi Ray.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Description:

xxiii, 418 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Series:

Chicago architecture and urbanism

Notes:
Outgrowth of a symposium, Chicago is history, held in the fall of 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-407) and index.
Foreword / Richard Solomon -- Introduction: Chicago is history / Charles Waldheim, Katerina Rüedi Ray -- Part I. Revisions : Western architecture: regionalism and race in the Inland architect / Joanna Merwood -- Myth of the Chicago school / Robert Bruegmann -- The centrality of the Columbian Exposition in the history of Chicago architecture / David Van Zanten -- William Le Baron Jenney and Chicago's West parks: from prairies to pleasure-grounds / Reuben M. Rainey -- Does Frank Lloyd Wright belong in Chicago's architectural history? / Sidney K. Robinson -- Preservation and renewal in post-World War II Chicago / Daniel Bluestone -- More than Mies: architecture of Chicago mulitfamily housing, 1935-65 / Eric Mumford -- Selling Mies / David Dunster -- Inside Mies: living at 860/880 Lake Shore Drive / Janet Abrams -- Part II. Alternatives : 1614 North Hermitage Avenue: painting as inscription / Julia Fish -- A century of progress: an alternate tale / Lee Bey -- Only girl architect lonely / Susan F. King -- Marion Mahoney Griffin: the Chicago years / Pamela Hill -- The third Chicago school?: marking sexual and ethnic identity / Christopher Reed -- The Chicago parks: tableaus of naturalization / Jane Wolff -- The architectural photography of Hedrich-Blessing / Robert A. Sobieszek -- Forms of the grid / Mitchell Schwarzer -- Wish you were here: Alvin Boyarsky's picture postcards / Igor Marjanović -- Bertrand Goldberg: a personal view of architecture / Geoffrey Goldberg -- Making Marina City: men, money, masquerade and modernity / Katerina Rüedi Ray -- Walter Netsch: field theory / Martin Felsen, Sarah Dunn -- Systematic genius: Walter Netsch and the architecture of bureaucracy / David Goodman -- Opposing Mies: the triangular constructs of Harry Weese / Leah Ray -- Diminishing high-rise public housing / Janet L. Smith -- Understanding Chicago's high-rise public housing disaster / D. Bradford Hunt -- Bas-relief urbanism: Chicago's figured field / Sarah Whiting -- From operational anonymity to brand identity: Chicago O'Hare / Charles Waldheim -- From flesh to fiberglass: "Cows on parade" in Chicago / C. Greig Crysler.

Summary:

"In Chicago Architecture, Charles Waldheim and Katerina Ruedi Ray revise and offer alternatives to the archetypal story of modern architecture in Chicago. Together with an esteemed group of contributors they assert that the mythic status of Chicago architecture has distorted our understanding of the historical circumstances in which it was realized.
This searching volume illuminates the importance of photographs, books, magazines, and other media in the cultivation of an international audience for Chicago architecture; it explores the pivotal role of real estate developers, finance and insurance sectors, and speculative capital markets in the development of the city itself; and perhaps most notably, it examines a wide variety of overlooked architectural works and their creators - individuals who did not fit into the dominant modernist narrative."
"Offering new insights on Chicago public housing and O'Hare International Airport, on the Columbian Exposition and Marina City, on the city's grid system and the place of women architects in the story of Chicago modernism, and on the subjective experience of living inside Chicago's most well-known buildings, Chicago Architecture is a work of enormous scope and vision."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Publisher description

ISBN:

0226870383 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226870380 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226870391
9780226870397

Subject:

Architecture Illinois Chicago.
Architecture and society Illinois Chicago.
Architecture et société Illinois Chicago.
Architecture
Architecture and society
Buildings
Architektur
Stadtplanung
Chicago (Ill.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Chicago (Ill.) Constructions
Illinois Chicago
Chicago, Ill.

Form/genre:

Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Waldheim, Charles.
Rüedi, Katerina.
Chicago architecture and urbanism.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 238216
Call No.: BIB 168074
Status: Available