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Guide to Chicago's Twenty-First-Century Architecture
Exploring a new century of architecture in the Windy
City Chicago's wealth of architectural treasures makes it
one of the world's majestic cityscapes. Published in collaboration
with the Chicago Architecture Center, this easy-to-use guide
invites you to discover the new era of twenty-first-century
architecture in the Windy City via two hundred architecturally
significant buildings and spaces in the city and suburbs. Features
include:
Entries organized by neighborhood
Maps with easy-to-locate landmarks and mass transit
options
Background on each entry, including the design architect, name
and address, description, and other essential information
Sidebars on additional sites and projects
A detailed supplemental section with a glossary, selected
bibliography, and indexes by architect, building name, and building
type
Up-to-date and illustrated with almost four hundred color
photos, the Guide to Chicago's Twenty-First-Century
Architecture takes travelers and locals on a journey into an
ever-changing architectural mecca.
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Seeking Chicago : the stories behind the architecture of the Windy City--one building at a time
\"Chicago is possibly the most important American city for experiencing important architectural masterpieces. There are numerous ways to learn about its architectural heritage, from museums to curated walking and driving tours and even a boat tour. While the basic factual histories of Chicago's landmarks are fairly well known, there are additional layers of history--often with dramatic human interest angles--that don't always get included in the \"official\" tours. Tom Miller tells the story of Chicago's rich architectural and social history building by building. The stories behind the city's buildings is an impressive architectural history reading and a dramatic sampling of American social history--family feuds, scandals, and mob hits. He excels at uncovering the dramas that have unfolded within the architecture and detailing them to tell an engaging and largely unknown side of Chicago's history\"--Publisher's description.
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The City as Campus
The City as Campus uses Chicago as a case study to examine how universities interact with their urban contexts. Illustrating how Chicago serves as a site of pedagogical transformation and a location for the larger purpose of the academic community, Sharon Haar presents a social and design history of the urban campus as an architectural idea and form.
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Guide to Chicago's twenty-first-century architecture
\"Chicago's wealth of architectural treasures makes it one of the world's majestic cityscapes. Published in collaboration with the Chicago Architecture Center, this easy-to-use guide invites you to discover the new era of twenty-first-century architecture in the Windy City via two hundred architecturally significant buildings and spaces in the city and suburbs. Features include: Entries organized by neighborhood Maps with easy-to-locate landmarks and mass transit options Background on each entry, including the design architect, name and address, description, and other essential information Sidebars on additional sites and projects A detailed supplemental section with a glossary, selected bibliography, and indexes by architect, building name, and building type Up-to-date and illustrated with almost four hundred color photos, the Guide to Chicago's Twenty-First-Century Architecture takes travelers and locals on a journey into an ever-changing architectural mecca\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986
From skyline-defining icons to wonders of the world, the second
period of the Chicago skyscraper transformed the way Chicagoans
lived and worked. Thomas Leslie's comprehensive look at the modern
skyscraper era views the skyscraper idea, and the buildings
themselves, within the broad expanse of city history. As
construction emerged from the Great Depression, structural,
mechanical, and cladding innovations evolved while continuing to
influence designs. But the truly radical changes concerned the
motivations that drove construction. While profit remained key in
the Loop, developers elsewhere in Chicago worked with a Daley
political regime that saw tall buildings as tools for a wholesale
recasting of the city's appearance, demography, and economy.
Focusing on both the wider cityscape and specific buildings, Leslie
reveals skyscrapers to be the physical results of negotiations
between motivating and mechanical causes.
Illustrated with more than 140 photographs, Chicago
Skyscrapers, 1934-1986 tells the fascinating stories of the
people, ideas, negotiations, decision-making, compromises, and
strategies that changed the history of architecture and one of its
showcase cities.
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Grant Park
Not long after the city of Chicago was founded in the 1830s, land was set aside for a public park on the lakefront. This book focuses on how people changed this public land from an often unsightly neighborhood park into a landscape of regional, national, and international significance. The transformation of the park did not take place quickly or easily, and the current appearance has been the result of a great number of plans, efforts, court battles, and compromises. By “reading” the physical landscape of the park and its monuments, it is possible to gain insight into the cultural history and values of the Chicago community.
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AIA Guide to Chicago
Chicago's architecture attracts visitors from around the globe. The
fourth edition of the AIA Guide to Chicago is the best
portable resource for exploring this most breathtaking and dynamic
of cityscapes. The editors offer entries on new destinations like
the Riverwalk, the St. Regis Chicago, and The 606 as well as
updated descriptions of Willis Tower and other refreshed landmarks.
Thirty-four maps and over 500 photos make it easy to find each of
the almost 2000 featured sites. A special insert, new to this
edition, showcases the variety of Chicago architecture with over 80
full-color images arranged chronologically. A comprehensive index
organizes entries by name and architect.
Sumptuously detailed and user friendly, the AIA Guide to
Chicago encourages travelers and residents alike to explore
the many diverse neighborhoods of one of the world's great
architectural destinations.
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