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
Louis Henri Sullivan ( )
Louis Sullivan (Adler & Sullivan), Borden Block, 1880, Chicago, IL Demolished 1917
Jewelers Block, 1882 Louis Sullivans earliest extant building
H.H. Richardson, ( )
H.H. Richardson, Glessner House, Chicago, IL,
H.H. Richardson, Marshall Field Warehouse, Chicago, IL, (Demolished 1930)
Chicago Historical Society, 1892, Henry Ives Cobb
Daniel Burnham ( )
Burnham & Root, WCTU building, 1891, Chicago, IL Demolished 1926
Burnham & Root, The Rookery, , Chicago, IL
Burnham & Root, Monadnock Building, , Chicago, IL
Projecting Bays on Dearborn Street, 1890s – Before the curtain wall
William LeBarron Jenney, Home Insurance Building, 1883, Chicago, IL First steel-framed skyskyskraper Demolished, 1932 Sears Building, 1890
Louis Sullivan, Auditorium, , Chicago, IL
Sullivan’s Auditorium
Louis Sullivan (Adler & Sullivan), Wainwright Building, , St. Louis, MO
Louis Sullivan, Gage Block, 1898, Chicago, IL
Louis Sullivan, Carson Pirie Scott Department Store, , Chicago, IL
Sullivan at Graceland Cemetery
Architectural Fragments, Chicago Art Institute
World’s Columbian Exposition architectural committee, Chicago, 1892
The White City, Chicago, 1893
Louis Sullivan, Transportation Building, Chicago World’s Fair, 1893
Burnham Plan, 1909
Axis leading to Buckingham Fountain
Chicago Art Institute, 1892, Shepley, Rutan, & Coolidge
Chicago Public Library, 1897, Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge
Field Museum, 1912, D.H. Burnham & Co
Union Station, 1925, Graham, Burnham & Co
Burnham & Root/ Daniel Burnham, 1890/1894, Reliance Building, Chicago, IL
Marshall Field Store, Daniel Burnham,
Daniel Burnham, 1902, Flat Iron building, New York, NY
Frank Lloyd Wright ( ), Part 1 of his life (1902) and Part 2 of his life (1950s)
Frank Lloyd Wright, Unity Temple, , Oak Park, IL
Frank Lloyd Wright, Heurtley House, 1901, Oak Park, IL
Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, 1909, Chicago, IL
Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, 1909, Oak Park, IL
Cass Gilbert, Woolworth Building, 1913, New York, NY Howells & Hood, Chicago Tribune Tower, , Chicago, IL
“Losing” entries for the Chicago Tribune Tower competition, 1922: Eliel Saarinen on left, Walter Gropius in center.
Howells & Hood, Chicago Tribune Tower, , Chicago Howells & Hood, McGraw Hill Building, 1930, New York, NY
Art Deco Skyscrapers: Chicago Board of Trade, Carbide & Carbon Bldg, both
Art Deco ornament, late 1920s
Late Art Deco (aka Streamlined Moderne), late 1930s
Mies, Federal Center,
Bertrand Goldberg, Marina City, 1964
Late Modern Skyscrapers, John Hancock Tower (1969), Sears Tower (1974), both SOM
Postmodernism, Washington Public Library, 1987
Deconstructivism of Frank Gehry
Thanks for the parks, Burnham!