architecture

The Modern Wing: Renzo Piano and the Art Institute of Chicago

Abstract: The Modern Wing: Renzo Piano and the Art Institute of Chicago is a book of photography and essays documenting the construction of the modern wing.

Language: English

ISSN/ISBN: 9780865592315

Website:

artic.edu
yalebooks.com

Catalog Number: Book, The Art Institute of Chicago

The WPA Guide to Illinois: The Federal Writers' Project Guide to 1930s Illinois

Edition: First Pantheon Edition

Abstract: "First Published in 1939, 'The WPA Guide to Illinois' captures more vividly than any other guide both Chicago's quick pulse and the richly varied character of the rest of the state. Thirties Chicago, birthplace of the skyscraper, had just played host to the dazzling Century of Progress Exposition; the Board of Trade was the city's tallest building; and State Street was said to be the most brilliantly lighted street in the world. The stunning residences of the Gold Coast along Lake Shore Drive offered the city's most concentrated display of wealth, while on the South Side hundreds of freight cars rattled into the stock yards each night with their noisy cargo of livestock."

Language: English

Notes: Abstract taken from the back cover.

ISSN/ISBN: 0394721950

Catalog Number: Book, Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Illinois

The Voice Volume no 1 Issue no 2

Abstract: The Voice is a quarterly journal devoted to documenting historic buildings in need of preservation. This issue discusses several buildings designed by Andrew Sullivan, as well as other buildings in Chicago.

Language: English.

Website:

www.preservationchicago.org
info@preservationchicago.org

Catalog Number: Journal, The Voice Volume no 1 Issue no 2

In These Times: History We Can Use

Abstract: A magazine covering progressive politics and social justice issues.

Language: English

ISSN/ISBN: 0160-5992

Website:

http://www.inthesetimes.org

Catalog Number: Magazine In These Times: History We Can Use

Ultra Local Geography: Doors! Of Rogers Park!

Abstract: In the second installment of his Ultra Local Geography, Larry Shure documents the "functional beauty" of the portals to various buildings in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. An exhaustive zine-cum-architectural-guidebook, it documents and describes the features of eleven doors, including date, architect, building owner, cost, size, building materials, and even the reference information for the City of Chicago building permits. Shure provides drawings of the doors, their building facades, and street addresses/intersections.

Language: English

Catalog Number: Zine Ultra Local Geography

Chicago on Foot: An Architectural Walking Tour

Edition: 1st

Abstract: Ira Bach describes architectural walks "selected to present Chicago as a great cosmopolitan city as well as a collection of local community areas, all tied together by an intricate web of transportation that makes them accessible to the pedestrian for a closer view."

Language: English

Notes: Abstract taken from introduction.

ISSN/ISBN: 695811266

Catalog Number: Book Bach, Ira

Barbara Crane: Chicago Loop

Abstract: This publication accompanies the exhibition " Barbara Crane: Chicago Loop," organized by The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago , and on view there March 21-June 15, 2002. Includes reproductions of photographs in Barbara Crane's "Chicago Loop" series, 1976-1978, now part of the LaSalle Bank Photography Collection.

Language: English

ISSN/ISBN: 0970245211

Catalog Number: Book, Crane

Plans of Chicago

Edition: 1st

Abstract: "In 'Plans of Chicago,' R. Samuel Roche and Aric Lasher investigate the 'Plan of Chicago' as a design strategy and a point of departure for a new regional planning approach. They illuminate it historical context through a discussion of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and the 1901 McMillan Plan for Washington, DC, its primary antecedents. Comparing its priorities and strategies with those of earlier and later plans of Chicago -- including projects by Frederick Law Olmsted, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jens Jenson, and Ludwig Hilberseimer -- Roche and Lasher offer a new approach to regional planning that combines the strengths and objectives of these various plans of Chicago.'

Language: English

Notes: Abstract taken from notes in dust jacket.

ISSN/ISBN: 978061528220

Catalog Number: Book Roche, R. Samuel

An Architect Collects: Robert D. Kleinschmidt and a Lifetime of Fine Arts Acquistions

Abstract: A collection of fine arts acquisitions by Robert Kleinschmidt, from early career to recent.

Language: English

ISSN/ISBN: 9781883015398

Catalog Number: Book, Kleinschmidt, Robert D.

Graffitecture: Chicago Graffiti Artists Attack Photographic Spaces

Abstract: "We invited Chicago graffiti artists to consider various architectural spaces, and ask themselves, 'What would you do here?' A careful edit from my portraits of residential, commercial, hospitality corporate and street scenes provide the canvass for the response. The end result is a compilation that delves a bit deeper into questions about graffiti's place in the world at large.

Language: English

Notes: Abstract taken from the forward.

ISSN/ISBN: 9780977868971

Catalog Number: Book Fogelson, Doug