Title & Author:

Chicagoisms : the city as catalyst for architectural speculation / Alexander Eisenschmidt with Jonathan Mekinda (eds.).

Publication:

Zurich : Park Books, [2013]

Description:

184 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Palace of culture : Auditorium Building, Adler & Sullivan, 1889 / Robert Bruegmann -- Self-equilibrating spectacle : ferris wheel, George W.G. Ferris, 1893 / William F. Baker -- Introduction: Chicago as idea / Alexander Eisenschmidt and Jonathan Mekinda -- Upstream : Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Isham Randolph and the Sanitary District of Chicago, 1900 / Sandy Isenstadt -- Accelerated grid : plan of Chicago, Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett, 1909 / Winy Maas -- That '70s show / Penelope Dean -- The portfolio as architectural material : Wasmuth Folio, Frank Lloyd Wright, 1910 / Brett Steele -- Perverted monument : Chicago Tribune Tower Project, Adolf Loos, 1922 / Sam Jacob -- Alvin Boyarsky's Chicago-London axis : an architectural critic in the city of strangers / Igor Marjanović -- The big gizmo : Dymaxion House at Marshall Field's department store, Buckminster Fuller, 1929 / Bart Lootsma -- Chicago frame as picture frame : 860-880 Lake Shore Drive apartments, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1951 / Barry Bergdoll -- The rational, international occult : Konrad Wachsmann and the experimental digitization of architecture / John Harwood -- Automatic urbanism : Circle Interchange, Illinois Department of Transportation, 1962 / Alexander Eisenschmidt -- Stacked suburbia : Marina City, Bertrand Goldberg, 1967 / David J. Lewis -- Banham's mieses / Mark Linder -- American aesthetic : John Hancock Center, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1970 / Kazys Varnelis -- Titanic rising : The Titanic, Stanley Tigerman, 1978 / Aaron Betsky -- Megalopolis is everywhere / Albert Pope -- Folding before digital : stranded Sears Tower, Greg Lynn, 1992 / Mirko Zardini -- Thick thin : IIT McCormick Tribune Campus Center, OMA, 2003 / Sarah Whiting -- American modern : the Chicago school and the international style at New York's Museum of Modern Art / Joanna Merwood-Salisbury -- Chicago style : Hyde Park Art Center, Garofalo Architects, 2006 / Ellen D. Grimes -- Absorbing attention : Cloud Gate, Anish Kapoor, 2006 / Sylvia Lavin -- Admiration and apprehension of the American metropolis : European responses to the Plan of Chicago / David H. Haney -- A tale of two pavilions : Burnham Centennial Pavilion, UN Studio, 2009 / Mark Lee -- Neither duck nor shed : Aqua Tower, Studio Gang Architects, 2010 / Andres Lepik -- No failure too great / Alexander Eisenschmidt -- Waterworld : Free Water District, UrbanLab, 2011 / John McMorrough -- Generative atmosphere : environmental typologies, Weathers, 2013 / Pedro Gadanho.
Includes a 1-page text by Mirko Zardini entitled: Folding before digital, Stranded Sears Tower, Greg Lynn, 1992.

Summary:

Chicago has long captured the global imagination as a place of tall, shining buildings rising from the fog, the playground for many of architecture's greats-from Mies van der Rohe to Frank Lloyd Wright-and a surprising epicenter for modern construction and building techniques. In this volume, Alexander Eisenschmidt and Jonathan Mekinda have brought together a diverse pool of curators, artists, architects, historians, critics, and theorists to produce a multifarious portrait of the Second City.00.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9783906027159 (hbk.)
3906027155 (hbk.)

Subject:

Architecture Illinois Chicago.
Architecture Illinois Chicago History.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture Illinois Chicago Histoire.
Architecture
Buildings
Architektur
Architecture and Planning.
Chicago (Ill.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Illinois Chicago
Chicago, Ill.

Form/genre:

History
Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Eisenschmidt, Alexander, editor.
Mekinda, Jonathan, editor.
Eisenschmidt, Alexander editor of compilation.
Mekinda, Jonathan, editor of compilation.
Zardini, Mirko. Folding before digital.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285132
Call No.: BIB 224476
Status: Available