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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolner, Edward W.

Series:

Chicago architecture and urbanism.

Chicago architecture and urbanism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cobb, Henry Ives, 1859-1931.

Cobb, Henry Ives.

University of Chicago--Buildings.

University of Chicago.

Architecture--Illinois--Chicago.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 367- 373) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613362940

9781283362948

1283362945

9780226905631

0226905632

OCLC:

772845713