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Sociology, Urban --- Cities and towns --- Chicago school of architecture (Movement) --- Sociologie urbaine --- Villes --- Ecole de Chicago (Architecture)

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The birth of the skyscraper in Chicago in the mid-1880s introduced a new direction for city architecture: upwards. But how-and why- was it that Chicago set the standard for high-rise buildings, not only across the USA but all over the world? Rolf Achilles here introduces the style of the First Chicago School from 1880 to 1910, explaining the innovative use of iron frames for strength, height and openness, and the ubiquity of gridded window arrangements. With reference to such famous architects as William Le Baron Jenny and Frank Lloyd Wright, and colorful pictures of, among many others, the Reliance, Brooks and Marquette buildings, this book is a fascinating exploration of the structures that helped to give Chicago its identity, and the world a new way of building.

Chicago school of architecture (Movement) --- Architecture --- Ecole de Chicago (Architecture) --- History. --- Histoire --- Chicago (Ill.) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Constructions

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Chicago school of architecture (Movement) --- Architectural criticism --- Architecture --- Ecole de Chicago (Architecture) --- Critique d'architecture --- History --- Histoire --- École de Chicago (architecture) --- Chicago (Ill.) --- -Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Design and construction --- -Architecture --- Chicago school of architecture (Movement). --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Architecture, Primitive --- Architecture - Illinois - Chicago - History - 19th century --- École de Chicago (architecture)

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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 the famed architect's career as a creator of tall steel buildings. In this study, Joseph M. Siry traces the origins of the building's design and analyzes its role in commercial, urban, and architectural history. Originally constructed to house the Schlesinger and Mayer Store, Sullivan's building was one of a number of large department stores built at the turn of the century along State Street in Chicago's burgeoning retail district. Replacing a generation of commercial architecture that had grown out of the Great Fire of 1871, these new buildings were tall and steel-framed, a construction that posed new aesthetic problems for designers. Handsomely illustrated with more than one hundred photographs and drawings, Carson Pirie Scott provides an illuminating history of a pivotal architectural work and offers an original, revealing assessment of how Sullivan, responding to the commercial culture of his time, created a fresh, distinctive American building.

Carson Pirie Scott (Dept. store) --- Architecture --- Department stores --- Skyscrapers --- History --- Sullivan, Louis Henry --- Criticism and interpretation --- Illinois (Etat) --- Chicago (Ill.) --- Architecture [Modern ] --- 20th century --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- École de Chicago (architecture) --- Immeubles de grande hauteur --- Grands magasins --- Sullivan, Louis Henri --- Critique et interprétation --- Carson Pirie Scott --- École de Chicago (architecture) --- Sullivan, Louis Henry, --- Critique et interprétation

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Architecture --- architectural theory --- Sullivan, Louis --- Chicago school of architecture (Movement) --- Ecole de Chicago (Architecture) --- Sullivan, Louis Henry, --- -72.01 --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Addresses, essays, lectures --- Architectuurtheorie. Bouwprincipes. Esthetica van de bouwkunst. Filosofie van de bouwkunst --- Design and construction --- Architecture. --- Theory --- Sullivan, Louis H., --- Criticism and interpretation --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 72.01 Architectuurtheorie. Bouwprincipes. Esthetica van de bouwkunst. Filosofie van de bouwkunst --- 72.01 --- 72.01 Theory and philosophy of architecture. Principles of design, proportion, optical effect --- Theory and philosophy of architecture. Principles of design, proportion, optical effect --- Architecture, Primitive