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The birthplace of the skyscraper, Chicago is noted for an architectural tradition that has influenced building around the globe. Now the most authoritative text on the subject is completely redesigned, revised, and expanded to bring the history up to date--with an all-new final chapter on the signature works of the last 20 years, up to and including Frank Gehry's Millennium Park band shell, whose curling ribbons of stainless steel added a dazzling new facet to the city's skyline in July 2004. Some 300 photographs, principally the work of the renowned Chicago studio Hedrich Blessing, illustrate the book. More than half of the photos are new. Looking at famous structures from the inside out, the book has won praise for its emphasis on the graceful interiors of Chicago's finest buildings. The vivid text discusses the life and work of such towering figures as Daniel Burnham, Louis H. Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mies van der Rohe, as well as that of the many lesser-known builders who have contributed to Chicago's reputation as "an architect's city.

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• Foreword(p. 7)
• Preface(p. 11)
• Acknowledgments(p. 14)
• Chapter 1 The Roots of Modern Architecture(p. 19)
• Chapter 2 The Chicago School(p. 41)
• Chapter 3 Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School(p. 87)
• Chapter 4 From Arts and Crafts to Art Deco(p. 111)
• Chapter 5 The Meaning of Mies and the Rise of Modernism(p. 137)
• Chapter 6 Modern and Postmodern Chicago(p. 177)
• Chapter 7 Chicago's Second Modern Period(p. 233)
• Glossary(p. 279)
• Bibliography(p. 283)
• Index(p. 287)
• Photograph Credits(p. 293)

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Library Journal Review

Many books cover historic Chicago buildings, but this significant update of the 1993 classic is one of the few architecture histories to span the city's entire 170 years. Revisions include all-new chapters about the last 20 years in Chicago architecture, up to Frank Gehry's Millennium Park band shell (2004), and 150 brand-new photographs, bringing the total to 300. Pridmore, a freelance writer who has produced books about individual Chicago buildings, and Larson, director of design at Larson Associates, have crafted a solid chronological narrative of design trends and influential buildings of all types through the decades. While paying homage to such giants as Burnham, Sullivan, Wright, and Mies van der Rohe, they also discuss and illustrate the work of other significant Chicago-based architects and firms of various periods. Recommended for libraries with an interest in the region and for comprehensive architecture collections.-David R. Conn, Surrey P.L., B.C. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

Although this handsome revised volume (1st ed. by George A. Larson and Pridmore, CH, Jan'94, 31-2482) predictably covers the long-known monuments from Chicago's well-documented architectural past, it also reveals numerous lesser-known but no less intriguing works, from small private residences to large civic structures, that deserve a wider audience. Some of these, like the 1930s residential work of Keck and Keck, when treated alongside examples by Mies or the Saarinens as they are here, reveal the breadth of Chicago modernist experimentation with form, structure, materials, or spatial layouts. Much of the most provocative information is conveyed in the (mostly) exquisite photographs and captions, such as that for the zany Nash Motors temporary pavilion for the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition. Its tall glass tower, filled with a vertically revolving belt of automobiles, presaged the postmodern building-as-advertising-sign (shades of Venturi and SITE!). The book culminates with the minimal severity of Tadao Ando's first major US project, a 1997 private house, and the expected exuberance of Frank Gehry's 2004 band shell at Millennium Park--a metaphor for the range and variety of the first-rank architectural work that this city has offered since the late 19th century. ^BSumming Up: Essential. All levels. R. J. Onorato University of Rhode Island

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George A. Larson is chairman and director of design of Larson Associates, Chicago and New York.