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Chicago is universally recognized as the cradle of modern architecture. It is known worldwide for the development, beginning in the late 1800s, of the renowned "Chicago School" of commercial building. In the early 1900s, Chicago saw the birth of Wright's "Prairie School" of residential design, which gave rise to the modern, open-plan house we know today. Other world-renowned architects were also based in Chicago, such as Louis Sullivan, who designed the Chicago Stock Exchange, and Daniel Burnham, architect of the famous Rookery Building of the 1890s.The 1940s were to see the completion of Mies van der Rohe's revolutionary Illinois Institute of Technology and his astonishing Lake Shore Drive apartment buildings. Skidmore Owings & Merrill's landmark Inland Steel Building was finished in 1954, their John Hancock Center in 1970, and their Sears Tower in 1974. Philip Johnson and John Burgee's 190 South LaSalle Street office tower went up in 1987. The 200 illustrations in thi
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John Zukowsky is Curator of Architecture at The Art Institute of Chicago.
Martha Thorne is Associate Curator of Architecture at The Art Institute of Chicago.
Stanley Tigerman is both a practicing architect and a professor of architecture, and has often been called the dean of Chicago architecture.
Martha Thorne is Associate Curator of Architecture at The Art Institute of Chicago.
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- PublisherRizzoli
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0847825965
- ISBN 13 9780847825967
- BindingHardcover
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