Main entry:

Wolner, Edward W.

Title & Author:

Henry Ives Cobb's Chicago : architecture, institutions, and the making of a modern metropolis / Edward W. Wolner.

Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Description:

x, 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.

Series:

Chicago architecture and urbanism

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-373) and index.
Part I.A Proper Bostonian's Chicago -- The Union Club, self-made men, and Chicago's first period of growth -- Three mansions, four self-makers, and Chicago's metropolitan expansion -- The Chicago Opera House and the Owings Building: Skyscrapers and rationalized work I -- Cultural politics and the Newberry Library's compartmentalization of knowledge -- Part II. Cultural institutions and metropolitan maturity -- Cobb's varieties of the Romanesque -- Skyscrapers and rationalized Work II -- Self-made men, civic culture, and the University of Chicago (1889-1893) -- Science, self-makers, and the University's Second Building Campaign (1893-1897) -- Public square and the Federal Building: Design, civic discourse, and rationalized government -- Falls from grace -- Chicago in New York.

Summary:

"When championing the commercial buildings and homes that made the Windy City famous, one can't help but mention the brilliant names of their architects--Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others. But few people are aware of Henry Ives Cobb (1859-1931), the man responsible for an extraordinarily rich chapter in the city's turn-of-the-century building boom, and fewer still realize Cobb's lasting importance as a designer of the private and public institutions that continue to enrich Chicago's exceptional architectural heritage. Henry Ives Cobb's Chicago is the first book about this distinguished architect and the magnificent buildings he created, including the Newberry Library, the Chicago Historical Society, the Chicago Athletic Association, the Fisheries Building for the 1893 World's Fair, and the Chicago Federal Building. Cobb filled a huge institutional void with his inventive Romanesque and Gothic buildings--something that the other architect-giants, occupied largely with residential and commercial work, did not do. Edward W. Wolner argues that these constructions and the enterprises they housed--including the first buildings and master plan for the University of Chicago--signaled that the city had come of age, that its leaders were finally pursuing the highest ambitions in the realms of culture and intellect. Assembling a cast of colorful characters from a free-wheeling age gone by, and including over 140 images of Cobb's most creative buildings, Henry Ives Cobb's Chicago is a rare achievement: a dynamic portrait of an architect whose institutional designs decisively changed the city's identity during its most critical phase of development."--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9780226905617 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226905616 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Cobb, Henry Ives, 1859-1931.
Cobb, Henry Ives 1859-1931
Cobb, Henry Ives.
University of Chicago Buildings.
University of Chicago
Architecture Illinois Chicago.
Architecture
Buildings
Architektur
Hochhaus
Öffentliche Einrichtung
Hochschulbau
Illinois Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
Chicago.
Architecture (object genre) United States Illinois Chicago 1880-1900.
Architecture (object genre) United States New York (State) New York 1900-1920.

Added entries:

Chicago architecture and urbanism.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 273535
Call No.: NA44.C6535.9 W6 2011
Status: Available