Main entry:

Zukowsky, John, 1948-

Title & Author:

Masterpieces of Chicago architecture / John Zukowsky and Martha Thorne ; preface by Stanley Tigerman.

Publication:

New York : Rizzoli ; Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago, 2004.

Description:

240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Verso of title page: "This book is a publication of the Ernest R. Graham Study Center for Architectural Drawings at The Art Institute of Chicago."
Includes index.
Preface / Stanley Tigerman -- Introduction : Exhibitions and observations on blueprints, bricks, and mortar / John Zukowsky -- Masterpieces of Chicago architecture : buildings and drawings -- Stewart-Bentley Building -- Lenox Building -- Rookery Building -- Fine Arts Building -- Exhibition Pavilion -- Reliance Building -- Fisher Building -- Trading Room of the Chicago Stock Exchange -- Schlesinger and Mayer Store -- A system of architectural ornament -- McVickers Theatre -- Krause Music Store -- Fuller ("Flatiron") Building -- The plan of Chicago -- Rock Crest/Rock Glen --Avery Conley Playhouse -- Head House, Chicago Municipal Pier -- 3440 North Sheridan Road -- Chicago Tribune Tower competition -- Chicago Tribune Tower -- London Guarantee and Accident Building -- Palmer House -- Boulevard Apartments -- Buckingham Fountain -- 1500 Lake Shore Drive -- Carbide and Carbon Building -- North West Tower -- Field Building -- The Attic Club -- Dymaxion Car -- Travel and Transport Building -- Proposed Tower of Water and Light -- Mrs. Kersey Coats Reed House -- Northwestern Memorial Hospital -- Wesley Memorial Hospital -- Herbert A. Jacobs House -- Highways of the future -- Bridge over Caldwell Avenue -- Congress Street Expressway -- Illinois Institute of Technology -- 860-880 Lake Shore Drive -- Ruth Ford House -- O'Hare International Airport -- Inland Steel Building -- Marina City -- Chicago Civic Center -- Time-Life Building -- Seventeenth Church of Christ Scientist -- Abraham Lincoln Oasis, Tri-State Tollway -- First National Bank Building -- McCormick Place -- John Hancock Center -- Water Tower Place -- The Titanic -- Illinois Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped -- Late entries to the Chicago Tribune Tower competition -- McDonald's floating restaurant -- Painted apartment -- Chicago Board of Trade -- One South Wacker Drive -- James R. Thompson Center -- Chicago and Northwestern Terminal Building -- United Airlines Terminal One -- 190 South La Salle Street -- NBC Tower -- Morton International Building -- American Medical Association -- Crate and Barrel Store -- Crate and Barrel Headquarters -- Greyhound/Trailways Bus Terminal -- International Terminal -- Little Village Academy -- House in Lincoln Park -- Markow Residence --Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois -- Adler Planetarium and Astronomical Museum expansion -- Lincoln Park Zoo Main Store and Rooftop Café -- North Avenue Beach House -- St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church renovation -- Hotel Sofitel -- New terminal at Midway Airport -- Chinese American Service Center -- Epilogue : Chicago in the new millennium / Martha Thorne -- Appendices : List of exhibitions and their designers ; Committee on Architecture 2003.

Summary:

Over 200 illustrations drawn from the Art Institute of Chicago's repository of architectural drawings, models, and building fragments present a striking record of Chicago's great buildings and structures.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0847825965
9780847825967

Subject:

Architecture Illinois Chicago.
Architecture
Buildings
Architecture 20e siècle Chicago (Ill.)
Architecture américaine.
Chicago (Ill.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Chicago (Ill.) Constructions.
Illinois Chicago
Chicago (Ill.)

Form/genre:

Books.

Added entries:

Thorne, Martha.
Art Institute of Chicago.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232494
Call No.: NA735.C4 Z8 2004
Status: Available