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Chicago, 150 ans d'architecture, 1833-1983Chicago, 150 ans d'architecture, 1833-1983

Chicago, 150 ans d'architecture, 1833-19831983

Ante Glibota, Frédéric Edelmann

2.4(5)on Hardcover

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Open space / by Ante Glibota -- 150 years of architecture: a history of the city / by Frédéric Edelmann -- The time of the pioneers 1833-1910. The first city ; 1871: the great fire ; Reconstruction ; The Chicago school - expansion ; 1893: the Columbian Exposition ; The Chicago school - maturity and reactions ; The Chicago school - last lights ; Returning to the origins of modern architecture / by François Hébert-Stevens ; William Le Baron Jenney ; Daniel Burnham ; Louis Sullivan -- Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School. A Ruskinian pioneer / by André Fermigier ; Frank Lloyd Wright -- From historicism to modernism 1910-1969. 1910-1921: indecisions ; 1922: the Chicago Tribune competition ; 1922-1932: before the crash ; 1933: the "Century of Progress" exposition ; Waiting for Mies ; Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe ; Mies and his followers ; The sixties -- Trends 1970-1983. Firms and divergences / by Ante Glibota ; Bertrand Goldberg ; Does the architect have a philosophy? / by Bertrand Goldberg ; The transgression / by François Hébert-Stevens ; Helmut Jahn ; Towards a new synthesis / by Helmut Jahn ; Helmut Jahn, or total architecture / by Wojciech Madeyski ; Creative coherence / by Benoit Jullien ; Walter A. Netsch ; Field theory / by Walter A. Netsch ; A lyrical method / by Gilles Plazy ; Harry Weese ; A word about architecture / by Harry Weese ; The purism of freedom / by Michel Ragon -- The city: realities. Around the Loop ; Housing ; Monuments to faith ; Sculpture and space ; Signs of transportation ; Restorations ; Evolutions ; Before and after ; A touch of humanity ; Maps and statistics ; Chicago landmarks ; Biographies ; Synoptic chart.

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First published
1983
OL Work ID
OL32011089W

Subjects

ArchitectureExhibitionsHistoryModern ArchitectureArchitectsBiographyBuildings, structures

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