Chicagoisms: The City as Catalyst for Architectural Speculation

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Chicago has long captured the worldwide imagination as a spot of tall, shining buildings rising from the fog, the playground for lots of of architecture’s greats–from Mies van der Rohe to Frank Lloyd Wright–and a surprising epicenter for brand new construction and building techniques. On this beautifully illustrated volume, Alexander Eisenschmidt and Jonathan Mekinda have brought together a diverse pool of curators, artists, architects, historians, critics, and theorists to supply a multifarious portrait of the “Second City.”

Looking at far back as the Auditorium Building of 1889 and the 1909 Plan of Chicago, Chicagoisms is remarkable for the breadth of its topics and the depth of its essays. From more abstract ventures like tracking the boom-and-bust cycle of Chicago’s commitment to architecture and the influence of the Chicago grid system on Mies van der Rohe, to more straightforward studies of the “Americanization” of Berlin, the editors have chosen essays that convey the complex and varied history and culture of Chicago’s architecture. More than simply an architectural biography of the town, Chicagoisms shows Chicago to have the most important role as a catalyst for international developments and debates, and pinpoints its remarkable influence all over the world. The contributors explore topics as diverse as Daniel Burnham’s vision and OMA’s  student center for the Illinois Institute of Technology, and show them to all be indelibly products of Chicago. This volume is published to coincide with the exhibition Chicagoisms, opening on the Art Institute of Chicago in Spring 2014.

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