chicago school of architecture
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Chicago school of
architecture
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Chicago architecture
Important in the history of architecture. Birth place of skyscrapers
Birth place of american architecture
Great chicago fire destroyed the city
Opportunity to design buildings
Natural boundaries also restricted horizontalexpansion
Answer- skyscrapers
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First sky scraper
Home insurance building by William LeBaron Jenney in 1885
Building has steel structures making it go
taller
Although has masonry structure it has
features of modern skyscrapers
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Making of a new world
Jenny trained an important group of architectsincluding Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan,William Holabird, Martin Roche, John Root
Work of these architects-chicago school ofarchitecture
It was a style of architecture
A break away from east coast architects Important modern architects Frank Lloyd Wright ,Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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School or style
Style developed due to tecnological advancement Use of steel structures made design light
Than thick masonry walls.
Large openings possible More airy design
Many buildings used such chicago schoolwindows
So called birth place of modern architecture
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Auditorium Buildingby Louis H Sullivan
civic auditorium bearing masonry
complex multiple-use
building.
Interior details
equivalents to
European ArtNouveau architecture."
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Monadnock Buildingby Burnham and Root
early skyscraper, commercialoffice tower
bearing masonry
16 stories
a massive brick pile with a
slightly curved base andoutward curving cavetto corniceat the top
structurally traditional,employing cast iron andwrought iron framing only forwindow spandrels and theinternal frame
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