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Chicago architecture and design / Jay Pridmore, George A. Larson ; with principal photography by Hedrich Blessing.
Fine Arts Library NA735.C4 L37 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pridmore, Jay, author.
- Larson, George A., 1935- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Illinois--Chicago.
- Architecture.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Buildings.
- Local Subjects:
- Architecture.
- Buildings.
- Genre:
- Local authors -- Illinois -- St. Charles.
- Physical Description:
- 326 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- Third Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Abrams, an imprint of Abrams, 2018.
- Summary:
- Chronicles Chicago's architectural tradition for the nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries of the finest buildings from the viewpoint of interior architecture, including Tribune Tower, Harold Washington Library, and State of Illinois building.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Helmut Jahn
- Preface / George A. Larson
- Acknowledgments
- The roots of modern architecture
- The Chicago School
- Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School
- From arts and crafts to Art Deco
- The meaning of Mies and the rise of modernism
- Modern and postmodern Chicago
- Chicago's second modern period
- In harmony with nature and the past.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-316) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1419732315
- 9781419732317
- OCLC:
- 1024099354
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