The Chicago School of Architecture
by Carl W. Condit

A History of Commercial and Public Building in the Chicago Area, 1875-1925

This thoroughly illustrated study traces the history of the world-famous Chicago school of architecture from its beginnings with the functional innovations of William Le Baron and others to their imaginative development by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. The book has a threefold purpose: first, to place the Chicago school in its historical setting, showing it as at once the culmination of a century's development in iron and later concrete construction and the chief pioneer in the evolution of modern architecture; second, to assess the achievements of the school in terms of the economic, social, and cultural growth of Chicago at the turn of the century; and, third, to show the ultimate meaning of the Chicago work for contemporary architecture.

Contents:

List of Illustrations
I: Architecture in the Nineteenth Century
II: Chicago: 1871 III: New Forms in Traditional Materials
IV: Jenney and the New Structural Technique
V: Burnham and Root
VI: D. H. Burnham and Company
VII: Holabird and Roche
VIII: Adler and Sullivan
IX: In the Wake of the Pioneers
X: Hotels and Apartments
XI: The Chicago School in the Twentieth Century
Bibliography
Index

ZC4554    The Chicago School of Architecture                    $30.00

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