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Purging the Poorest Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities
ISBN: PB: 9780226012452, ISBN: HB: 9780226012315, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 63 halftones, 6 line illus.
The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In "Purging the Poorest", Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle t...
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro Architecture after Images
ISBN: HB: 9780226151816, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
248 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 75 colour plates, 31 halftones
In "Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images", Edward Dimendberg offers the first comprehensive treatment of one of the most imaginative contemporary design studios. Since founding their practice in 1979, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofi...
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Chicago Makes Modern How Creative Minds Changed Society
ISBN: PB: 9780226389561, University of Chicago Press, February 2013
304 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 30 halftones, 72 colour illus.
Chicago is a city dedicated to the modern – from the skyscrapers that punctuate its skyline to the spirited style that inflects many of its dwellings and institutions, from the New Bauhaus to Hull-House. Despite this, the city has long been overlooke...
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£33,00
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Memorial Mania Public Feeling in America
ISBN: PB: 9780226159416, ISBN: HB: 9780226159386, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
480 pp., 23x15 cm, 161 halftones
In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism have dotted the American landscape. Equally...
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Carson Pirie Scott Louis Sullivan and the Chicago Department Store
ISBN: PB: 9780226761374, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
298 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 132 halftones
Long recognized as a Chicago landmark, the Carson Pirie Scott Building also represents a milestone in the development of architecture. The last large commercial structure designed by Louis Sullivan, the Carson building reflected the culmination of th...
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£51,00
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American Palace Chicago's Samuel M. Nickerson House
ISBN: HB: 9780615478449, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
120 pp., 30x23.9 cm, 86 colour illus.
"An American Palace: Chicago's Samuel M. Nickerson House", explores the rich and varied history of one of Chicago's grandest Gilded Age residences. Commissioned by Chicago banker Samuel M. Nickerson in 1879, the house was designed by the architectura...
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City of American Dreams A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919
ISBN: PB: 9780226282107, ISBN: HB: 9780226282091, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 maps, 15 halftones
In this vivid portrait of life in Chicago in the fifty years after the Civil War, Margaret Garb traces the history of the American celebration of home ownership. As the nation moved from an agrarian to an industrialized urban society, the competing v...
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Beth Sholom Synagogue Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9780226761404, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
736 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 295 halftones, 10 colour illus.
In a suburb just north of Philadelphia stands Beth Sholom Synagogue, Frank Lloyd Wright's only synagogue and among his finest religious buildings. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 2007, Beth Sholom was one of Wright's last completed project...
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Terror and Wonder Architecture in a Tumultuous Age
ISBN: PB: 9780226423128, ISBN: HB: 9780226423111, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 70 halftones
For nearly twenty years now, Blair Kamin of the "Chicago Tribune" has explored how architecture captures our imagination and engages our deepest emotions. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism and writer of the widely read Cityscapes blog, Kam...
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Marion Mahony Reconsidered
ISBN: HB: 9780226850818, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
192 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 65 halftones, 4 colour illus.
Marion Mahony Griffin (1871-1961) was an American architect and artist, one of the first licensed female architects in the world, designer for Frank Lloyd Wright's Chicago studio, and an original member of the Prairie School of architecture. Largely...
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