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Henry Ives Cobb's Chicago Architecture, Institutions, and the Making of a Modern Metropolis

Wolner Edward W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226905617, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
400 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 145 halftones

When championing the commercial buildings and homes that made the Windy City famous, one can't help but mention the brilliant names of their architects – Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others. But few people are aware o...

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Building Globalization Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China

Ren Xuefei

ISBN: PB: 9780226709819, ISBN: HB: 9780226709802, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 4 maps, 15 tables, 18 halftones

From the years 2004 to 2008, Beijing and Shanghai witnessed the construction of an extraordinary number of new buildings, many of which were designed by architectural firms overseas. Combining ethnographic fieldwork, historical research, and network...

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Architecture, Means and Ends

Gregotti Vittorio

ISBN: HB: 9780226307589, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
144 pp., 21.5x13 cm

Vittorio Gregotti – the architect of Barcelona's Olympic Stadium, Milan's Arcimboldi Opera Theater, and Lisbon's Centro Cultural de Belem, among many other noted constructions – is not only a designer of international repute but an acclaimed theorist...

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Blueprint for Disaster The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing

Hunt D. Bradford

ISBN: PB: 9780226360867, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 1 table, 28 halftones

Now considered a dysfunctional mess, Chicago's public housing projects once had long waiting lists of would-be residents hoping to leave the slums behind. So what went wrong? To answer this complicated question, D. Bradford Hunt traces public housing...

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Envisioning the Bloomingdale 5 Concepts

Lyster Clare

ISBN: PB: 9780981991825, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
123 pp., 23x23 cm, photos, illus., maps, 82 line illus.

In 2007 the Chicago Architectural Club directed an exhibition to explore strategies for the reappropriation of an underutilized freight train line on the north side of Chicago known as the Bloomingdale Line. The goal of the exhibition was to generate...

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Architecture

Survival City Adventures among the Ruins of Atomic America

Vanderbilt Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226846941, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 line drawings, 80 halftones

On the road to Survival City, Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruine...

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Architecture

Photography

Architecture Under Construction

Greenberg Stanley

ISBN: HB: 9780226306421, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
120 pp., 28x28 cm, 80 halftones

Mies van der Rohe once commented, "Only skyscrapers under construction reveal their bold constructive thoughts, and then the impression made by their soaring skeletal frames is overwhelming". Never has this statement resonated more than in recent yea...

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Architecture

Chicago 1890 The Skyscraper and the Modern City

Merwood-Salisbury Joanna

ISBN: HB: 9780226520780, University of Chicago Press, July 2009
208 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 89 halftones

Chicago's first skyscrapers are famous for projecting the city's modernity around the world. But what did they mean at home, to the Chicagoans who designed and built them, worked inside their walls, and gazed up at their facades? Answering this multi...

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Architecture

Architecture of Aftermath

Smith Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780226764696, ISBN: HB: 9780226764689, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
280 pp., 25.2x17.5 cm, 58 halftones

The September 11 terrorist attacks targeted, in Osama bin Laden's words, "America's icons of military and economic power". In "The Architecture of Aftermath", Terry Smith argues that it was no accident that these targets were buildings: architecture...

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America

Sprawl A Compact History

Bruegmann Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226076911, ISBN: HB: 9780226076904, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
306 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones, 3 line drawings, 5 maps, 1 table

As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with the...

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