The Chicago School of Architecture by Carl W Condit

The Chicago School of Architecture by Carl W Condit

This thoroughly illustrated classic study traces the history of the world-famous Chicago school of architecture from its beginnings with the functional innovations of William Le Baron Jenney and others to their imaginative development by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. The Chicago School of Architecture places the Chicago school in its historical setting, showing it at once to be the culmination of an iron and concrete construction and the chief pioneer in the evolution of modern architecture. It also assesses the achievements of the school in terms of the economic, social, and cultural growth of Chicago at the turn of the century, and it shows the ultimate meaning of the Chicago work for contemporary architecture. "A major contribution [by] one of the world's master-historians of building technique."--Reyner Banham, Arts Magazine "A rich, organized record of the distinguished architecture with which Chicago lives and influences the world."--Ruth Moore, Chicago Sun-Times

Condit, Carl W.: - Carl W. Condit (1914-1997) was an historian of technology, urban development, and architecture. He was the author of numerous books on the history of American architecture, especially in Chicago, and taught history, art history, and urban affairs at Northwestern University for over thirty years.

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ISBN 13	9780226114552
ISBN 10	0226114554
Title	The Chicago School of Architecture
Author	Carl W Condit
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The University of Chicago Press
Year published	1998-11-15
Number of pages	452
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