Henry Ives Cobb and the Chicago School
Author | : Julius Lewis |
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Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1954 |
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Author | : Julius Lewis |
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Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1954 |
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Author | : Edward W. Wolner |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2011-06-30 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0226905616 |
When championing the commercial buildings and homes that made the Windy City famous, one can’t help but mention the brilliant names of their architects—Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others. But few people are aware of Henry Ives Cobb (1859–1931), the man responsible for an extraordinarily rich chapter in the city’s turn-of-the-century building boom, and fewer still realize Cobb’s lasting importance as a designer of the private and public institutions that continue to enrich Chicago’s exceptional architectural heritage. Henry Ives Cobb’s Chicago is the first book about this distinguished architect and the magnificent buildings he created, including the Newberry Library, the Chicago Historical Society, the Chicago Athletic Association, the Fisheries Building for the 1893 World’s Fair, and the Chicago Federal Building. Cobb filled a huge institutional void with his inventive Romanesque and Gothic buildings—something that the other architect-giants, occupied largely with residential and commercial work, did not do. Edward W. Wolner argues that these constructions and the enterprises they housed—including the first buildings and master plan for the University of Chicago—signaled that the city had come of age, that its leaders were finally pursuing the highest ambitions in the realms of culture and intellect. Assembling a cast of colorful characters from a free-wheeling age gone by, and including over 140 images of Cobb’s most creative buildings, Henry Ives Cobb’s Chicago is a rare achievement: a dynamic portrait of an architect whose institutional designs decisively changed the city’s identity during its most critical phase of development.
Author | : Julius Lewis |
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Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 1977 |
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The folder may include clippings, announcements, small exhibition catalogs, and other ephemeral items.
Author | : Dennis H. Cremin |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1402723873 |
With the help of Elan Penn's glorious images, university professor and public historian Dennis Cremin leads us on a spectacular tour of the windy city. Visit beloved landmarks and great institutions, such as the Water Tower, Hull House, and Navy Pier, and learn about Chicago's history from the settlement days to the grand metropolis we know today. Celebrate world-renowned cultural sites, such as the Art Institute, Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, as well as brilliant newcomers, including the Mexican Fine Arts Museum. Walk through the beautiful city-created Millennium Park, a spectacular result of the partnership between public and private sectors. Gaze at the economic, political, and artistic structures that marked Chicago's budding cityscape in the past, and still remain today: the Stock Yards Entrance, Pilgrim Baptist Church, and Lincoln Park's Bates Fountain. This collection truly captures the essence of a great city.
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Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Building stones |
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Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Historic buildings |
ISBN | : 9781599217147 |
The National Park Service's official advice on preserving and restoring historic buildings.
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Total Pages | : 1030 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Joseph J. Korom, Jr. |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2013-03-08 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0786470720 |
This book is about the design of the facade of 51 of America's most extravagant early skyscrapers. Included are the biographies of noted architects and the aristocrats who financed America's first skyscrapers. This book discusses the influences of European aesthetic values in America--and scandals, rogues and class distinctions. Interpretations by contemporary critics are sprinkled throughout the text. Woven throughout the book are inquiries about the validity of Greek and Roman mythologies and their relationships to "modern" America and its spirit of invention and progress. Foreign traditions were challenged by some architects but then accepted by most. Why was it necessary for the long-dead hero of a faraway civilization to be included on the facade of a newly invented American skyscraper? This book tells why.
Author | : Jean-Marcel Humbert |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2016-06-16 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1315427001 |
This book presents and analyses the results of the use and adaptation of ancient Egyptian architecture in modern times. It traces the use of ancient Egyptian motifs and constructions across the world, from Australia, the Americas and Southern Africa to Western Europe. It also inquires into the cultural, economic and social contexts of this practice. Imhotep Today is exceptional not only in its global coverage, but in its analyses of thorny questions such as: what was it about Ancient Egypt that inspired such Egyptianizing monuments, and was it just one idea, or several different ones which formed the basis of such activities? The book also asks why only certain images, such as obelisks and sphinxes, were incorporated within the movement. The contributors explore how these 'monuments' fitted into the local architecture of the time and, in this context, they investigate whether 'Egyptianizing architecture' is an ongoing movement and, if so, how it differs from earlier, similar activities.