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Understanding Modern Architecture in Chicago. Paul McLeod 18 April 2012. State Street, looking south, 1907, Library of Congress Image. Human Evolutionary Tree. Chicago Fire, 1871. Burn Zone, Chicago, 1871. Water Tower, 1869, W.W. Boyington. Typical post-fire architecture, 1870s. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Understanding Modern Architecture in Chicago
Paul McLeod
18 April 2012
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State Street, looking south, 1907, Library of Congress Image
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Human Evolutionary Tree
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Chicago Fire, 1871
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Burn Zone, Chicago, 1871
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Water Tower, 1869,
W.W. Boyington
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Typical post-fire architecture, 1870s
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Louis Henri Sullivan (1856-1924)
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Louis Sullivan (Adler & Sullivan), Borden Block, 1880, Chicago, IL
Demolished 1917
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Jewelers Block, 1882Louis Sullivans earliest extant building
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H.H. Richardson, (1838-1886)
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H.H. Richardson, Glessner House, Chicago, IL, 1886-87
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H.H. Richardson, Marshall Field Warehouse, Chicago, IL, 1885-1887
(Demolished 1930)
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Chicago Historical Society, 1892, Henry Ives Cobb
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Daniel Burnham
(1846-1912)
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Burnham & Root, WCTU building, 1891, Chicago, IL
Demolished 1926
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Burnham & Root, The Rookery, 1885-88, Chicago, IL
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Burnham & Root, Monadnock Building, 1888-1891, Chicago, IL
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Projecting Bays on Dearborn Street, 1890s – Before the curtain wall
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William LeBarron Jenney, Home Insurance Building, 1883, Chicago, ILFirst steel-framed skyskyskraperDemolished, 1932
Sears Building, 1890
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Louis Sullivan, Auditorium, 1887-89, Chicago, IL
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Louis Sullivan, Auditorium, 1887-89, Chicago, IL
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Sullivan’s Auditorium
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Louis Sullivan (Adler & Sullivan), Wainwright Building, 1890-91, St. Louis, MO
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Louis Sullivan, Gage Block, 1898, Chicago, IL
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Louis Sullivan, Carson Pirie Scott Department Store, 1899-1904, Chicago, IL
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Sullivan at Graceland Cemetery
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Architectural Fragments, Chicago Art Institute
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World’s Columbian Exposition architectural committee, Chicago, 1892
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The White City, Chicago, 1893
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Louis Sullivan, Transportation Building, Chicago World’s Fair, 1893
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Burnham Plan, 1909
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Axis leading to Buckingham Fountain
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Chicago Art Institute, 1892, Shepley, Rutan, & Coolidge
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Chicago Public Library, 1897, Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge
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Field Museum, 1912, D.H. Burnham & Co
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Union Station, 1925, Graham, Burnham & Co
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Burnham & Root/ Daniel Burnham, 1890/1894, Reliance Building, Chicago, IL
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Marshall Field Store, Daniel Burnham, 1893-1907
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Daniel Burnham, 1902, Flat Iron building, New York, NY
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Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), Part 1 of his life (1902) and Part 2 of his life (1950s)
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Unity Temple, 1902-04, Oak Park, IL
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Heurtley House, 1901, Oak Park, IL
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, 1909, Chicago, IL
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, 1909, Oak Park, IL
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Cass Gilbert, Woolworth Building, 1913, New York, NY Howells & Hood, Chicago Tribune
Tower, 1922-25, Chicago, IL
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“Losing” entries for the Chicago Tribune Tower competition, 1922: Eliel Saarinen on left, Walter Gropius in center.
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Howells & Hood, Chicago Tribune Tower, 1922-25, ChicagoHowells & Hood, McGraw Hill Building, 1930, New York, NY
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Art Deco Skyscrapers:Chicago Board of Trade, Carbide & Carbon Bldg, both 1929-30
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Art Deco ornament, late 1920s
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Late Art Deco (aka Streamlined
Moderne), late 1930s
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Mies, Federal Center, 1959-74
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Bertrand Goldberg, Marina City, 1964
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Late Modern Skyscrapers, John Hancock Tower (1969), Sears Tower (1974), both SOM
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Postmodernism, Washington Public Library, 1987
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Deconstructivism of Frank Gehry
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Thanks for the parks, Burnham!