Chicagoisms
The City as Catalyst for Architectural Speculation
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Preface
Stanley Tigerman
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 ‘70’s 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 Architecture 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
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Illustration Credits
Index
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