num_pages: 358
description: The latest edition of the original and best guide to Chicago architecture for tourists and residents. One of the premier architectural cities of the United Statesif not the worldChicago boasts a breathtaking skyline dozens of architectural monuments and a historic legacy few other cities can equal. And it's still growing! Since its first appearance in 1965 Chicago's Famous Buildings has been the standard and bestselling guide to the city's architectural riches. Now thoroughly revised and updated this fifth edition will remain the leading pocket guide to some of the world's greatest urban architecture.Chicago's Famous Buildings  fifth edition completely updated and revised by Franz Schulze and Kevin Harrington covers more than a decade of extraordinary new architecture and takes a fresh look back at the city's classical legacy of Adler Sullivan Burnham Root Wright and Mies van der Rohe. The authors have added many new descriptions and images of the most important projects in Chicago since the fourth edition including the massive reconstruction of Grant Park around Frank Gehry's Music Pavilion and they cover as well the current status of older buildingssome destroyed others such as Burnham's Reliance Building marvelously restored and brought back to life. Chicago's Famous Buildings  fifth edition also includes expanded sections on the city's future and the development of its diverse neighborhoods presented with new maps to serve as an even more effective walking guide. A glossary of architectural terms an extensive index and more than sixty new photographs of both old and new buildings bring this guide completely up-to-date.Authoritative informative and easier to use than ever before this fifth edition of Chicago's Famous Buildings will serve tourists and residents alike as the leading architectural guide to the treasures of this marvelous city.
language: English
title: Chicago's Famous Buildings
publisher: University of Chicago Press