Download or read book The Reliance Building written by Jay Pridmore and published by Pomegranate. This book was released on 2003 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This petite volume provides the history of one of Chicago's early skyscrapers, from its inception, initial success, later disrepair, and meticulous restoration into a hotel in the 1990s. Many historic photos are included. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book The Auditorium Building written by Jay Pridmore and published by Pomegranate. This book was released on 2003 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commissioned by Ferdinand Peck and produced by architects Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler--soon to be leaders of the Chicago School--in 1889, the Auditorium Building was a wondrous complex, housing a hotel, offices, stores, and a theater. Adler's engineering skills overcame the problem of a foundation that had to support an unevenly distributed weight; Sullivan designed the stunning theater, which was spanned by four elliptical arches studded with 3,500 incandescent electric lights and decorated with gold leaf. Adler created a hydraulic stage--with twenty-six lifts--and one of the first air-conditioning systems in a public building. Among the many design features in the interior of the Auditorium were murals, onyx, marble, open loggias, stained glass, filigreed vents, wainscoting, and bronze-plated posts. Scholars considered the Auditorium Building the most important single structure in Chicago. The Auditorium thrived until its closing in 1940. In 1946 Roosevelt University purchased the building, and the Auditorium Theatre Council restored the theater to its former glory. Today, the Auditorium Building is thriving as a showcase for major theatrical events, Roosevelt University concerts, and other events.
Download or read book Articles of the Reliance Building Association and Accumulating Fund Established July 1844 etc written by RELIANCE BUILDING ASSOCIATION. and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cliff Dwellers written by Henry Fuller and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2010-05-07 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cliff-Dwellers was the first American realist novel to use the rapidly developing city of Chicago as its setting. Henry Blake Fuller’s depiction of social climbing and human depravity among the “cliff-dwelling” residents and workers in the new Chicago skyscrapers shocked readers of the time, and influenced many American writers that followed. With its frenetic pace and many interrelated stories, it remains a compelling document of Chicago’s social history, as well as a searing indictment of modern American life at the close of the nineteenth century. The extensive appendices to this edition include Fuller’s literary criticism and his correspondence about the novel, reviews, and visual and historical materials on turn-of-the-century Chicago and literary realism.
Download or read book Skyscraper written by Dan Cruickshank and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago's beautiful Reliance Building, sixteen storeys tall, was designed in 1890 by John Root and completed in 1895 by Charles B. Atwood. In its construction – metal frame, large areas of plate glass, fire-proof brick and terracotta cladding – it pioneers all the key elements of twentieth-century high-rise architecture, and many of the tenets of Modernism. Cruickshank reflects on the extraordinary architectural, artistic and engineering world of the 1890s and its great figures such as Daniel H. Burnham, Louis Sullivan and William Le Baron Jenney. He looks forward to the Reliance building's immediate progeny, such as the 1902 Flatiron Building in New York and to the hubristic high-rise architecture of the twenty-first century. This is also the story of Gilded Age Chicago, which was burned to the ground in 1871. The city – corrupt, violent and fabulously wealthy – was ready to try anything, even revolutionary forms of architecture.
Download or read book The Chicago School of Architecture written by Carl W. Condit and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly illustrated classic study traces the history of the world-famous Chicago school of architecture from its beginnings with the functional innovations of William Le Baron Jenney and others to their imaginative development by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. The Chicago School of Architecture places the Chicago school in its historical setting, showing it at once to be the culmination of an iron and concrete construction and the chief pioneer in the evolution of modern architecture. It also assesses the achievements of the school in terms of the economic, social, and cultural growth of Chicago at the turn of the century, and it shows the ultimate meaning of the Chicago work for contemporary architecture. "A major contribution [by] one of the world's master-historians of building technique."—Reyner Banham, Arts Magazine "A rich, organized record of the distinguished architecture with which Chicago lives and influences the world."—Ruth Moore, Chicago Sun-Times
Download or read book The American Skyscraper 1850 1940 written by Joseph J. Korom and published by Branden Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The skyscraper is an American invention that has captured the public's imagination for over a century. The tall building is wholly manmade and borne in the minds of those with both slide rules and computers. This is the story of the skyscraper's rise and the recognition of those individuals who contributed to its development. This volume is unique; its approach, information, and images are fresh and telling. The text examines America's first tall buildings -- the result of twelve years of in-depth research by an accomplished and published architect and architectural historian. Over 300 compelling photographs, charts, and notes make this the ultimate tool of reference for this subject. Biographies woven throughout with period norms, politics and lifestyles help to place featured skyscrapers in context. Quite simply, there is no book like this. The text, carefully and insightfully written, is clear, concise, and easily digestible, the text being the product of well-documented original research written in an informative tone. The American Skyscraper 1850-1940: A Celebration of Height is a richly documented journey of a fascinating topic, and it promises to be a superb addition to libraries, schools of architecture, students of architecture, and lovers of art.
Download or read book Philosophical Problems written by Peter Alward and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Alward’s rigorous introductory text functions as a roadmap for students, laying out the key issues, positions, and arguments of academic philosophy. The book covers central topics in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy. An introductory chapter presents the foundations of philosophical discourse and offers a primer on the basics of logic. Those argumentative tools are then employed to address classic philosophical issues such as the relationship between body and mind, skepticism, the possibility of free will, and the existence of God. Later chapters engage issues of morality, justice, and liberty, as well as moral questions concerning abortion and the practice of punishment. Throughout, Alward aims for clarity, providing summaries, diagrams, and reflective questions to assist the student reader.
Download or read book Buildings and Building Management written by Frank J. Zorn and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Architecture For Dummies written by Deborah K. Dietsch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-06-28 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sei es Michael Graves Bestseller-Produktdesign für Target oder Sir Norman Fosters Renovierung des Berliner Reichstagsgebäudes: Architektur ist nach wie vor ein Thema, das im Zentrum des kulturellen Interesses steht und großen Neuigkeitswert genießt. "Architecture For Dummies": Ein Crashkurs in Sachen Architektur - für Leser, die es eilig haben. Hier finden Sie die wichtigsten Informationen zum Thema Architektur. Ein Band aus der beliebten 'For Dummies-Reihe'. Behandelt werden alle Höhepunkte der Architekturgeschichte - angefangen bei den Pyramiden von Ägypten bis hin zu Frank Gehrys Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Das Buch erklärt genau, wie man ein Gebäude betrachtet und bewertet, und wann man nicht mehr von einem Gebäude, sondern von einem Kunstwerk spricht. Der Abschnitt "Part of Tens" behandelt u.a.: zehn große architektonische Meisterwerke, die zehn größten architektonischen und bautechnischen Misserfolge, zehn der interessantesten modernen Architekten und vieles andere mehr. Autorin Deborah Dietsch ist eine renommierte Expertin auf diesem Gebiet. Sie war früher Chefredakteurin des 'Architecture' Magazins und leitende Redakteurin des 'Architectural Record'. Aus ihrer Feder stammt auch das kürzlich erschienene Buch 'Classic Modern'.
Download or read book Structural Analysis of Historic Construction Preserving Safety and Significance Two Volume Set written by Dina D'Ayala and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-06-02 with total page 1590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The successful preservation of an historic building, complex or city depends on the continued use and daily care that come with it. The possibility of continued use depends on the adaptation of the building to modern standards and practice of living, requiring changes in constructional or structural features. Conservation engineering is the process
Download or read book Architecture of the Early Twenty first Century A Global Need for Sustainability written by Shirley Montgomery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the global need for sustainable building. The number of people on earth and their use of the resources of the planet for energy make it necessary to build differently. The planet is showing serious signs of stress. According to Dr. David Grissmer, my sister's husband, as we all rode together recently through the melting Columbia ice field in Alberta, Canada, "The consequences of global warming are potentially catastrophic, and since the preventative strategies are likely to take decades to work, even if the chances are small that humans are the cause, we need to begin to address the issue." I knew this was a guarded statement from a physicist about what had possibly caused the changed ecosystems in our world.
Download or read book Architecture nineteenth and twentieth centuries written by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Architecture : nineteenth and twentieth centuries" by Henry-Russell Hitchcock. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book Chicago written by Thomas J. O'Gorman and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with a look at Chicago’s architectural history, the author examines the contemporary skyline and the structures that have earned the city such fame. Among them: the Sears Tower, Chicago’s tallest skyscraper; Bruce Graham and Fazlur Kahn’s John Hancock Building, the Frank Lloyd Wright House; Chicago Temple, and Tribune Tower.
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Download or read book Model Perspectives Structure Architecture and Culture written by Mark R. Cruvellier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 1504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a unique collection of various perspectives on the relationship between structures and the forms and spaces of architecture. As such it provides students and professionals alike with an essential sourcebook that can be mined for visual inspiration as well as for textually rich and authoritative insight into the links between structure, architecture, and cultural context. The chapters address fundamental structural elements and systems: columns, walls, beams, trusses, frames, tensile structures, arches, domes and shells. Each chapter is subdivided into two parts: • The essays – introduce the chapters with the reprinting of a curated set of essays and excerpts by various authors that uniquely address how particular structural elements or systems relate in essential fashion to architectural design concepts. • The model studies – physical models of the overall structural systems of several notable contemporary buildings from Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia are illustrated with large photographs, detail close-ups, and views of their external forms and internal spaces that establish the exceptional qualities of these projects in connecting structural form to architectural design objectives. Mosaic layouts complete the chapters with a collection of photographs of yet more models whose particular details and unique features serve to extend the visual repertoire of the structural type being considered. The combination, juxtaposition and mutual positive reinforcement of these two collections, one largely textual and the other image based, provides the reader with unique and multifaceted insights into how structural forms and systems can be related to architectural design intentions. Conveyed by a strong and deliberate graphical design format, this assembly of materials gets to the very essence of structures within the context of architecture, and will inspire students and practitioners alike to make strategic design decisions for their own projects.
Download or read book Shakespeare s Lost Playhouse written by Laurie Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The playhouse at Newington Butts has long remained on the fringes of histories of Shakespeare’s career and of the golden age of the theatre with which his name is associated. A mile outside London, and relatively disused by the time Shakespeare began his career in the theatre, this playhouse has been easy to forget. Yet for eleven days in June, 1594, it was home to the two companies that would come to dominate the London theatres. Thanks to the ledgers of theatre entrepreneur, Philip Henslowe, we have a record of this short venture. Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse is an exploration of a brief moment in time when the focus of the theatrical world in England was on this small playhouse. To write this history, Laurie Johnson draws on archival studies, archaeology, environmental studies, geography, social, political, and cultural studies as well as methods developed within literary and theatre history to expand the scope of our understanding of the theatres, the rise of the playing business, and the formations of the playing companies.
