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Chicago 1890 : the skyscraper and the modern city /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Merwood-Salisbury, Joanna
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Series:Chicago architecture and urbanism.
Subjects:
Skyscrapers > Illinois > Chicago.
Architecture and society > Illinois > Chicago > History > 19th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Western architecture : the tall office building as regional type
  • Louis Sullivan's democratic architecture and the labor movement
  • The Monadnock : John Wellborn Root and the art of pure color
  • The Masonic Temple : the double life of a civic skyscraper
  • The Reliance Building : urban sanitation and skyscraper reform
  • Chicago 1900 : the city beautiful movement and the decline of the skyscraper
  • Postscript: "the architectonic anticipation of the future".