The Chicago Auditorium Building
Subtitle: Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City (Chicago Architecture and Urbanism)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: December 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780226761343
Subjects: Concert halls, arenas, stadia; Individual architects; Architecture; Illinois; Americas (North Central South West Indies); History - General; Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Adler and Sullivan; Chicago; Chicago Auditorium Building (C; Chicago Auditorium Building (Chicago, Ill.); Multipurpose buildings
First sentence: Rarely in the modern period, either in Europe or in the United States, has a major city's identity been so strongly associated with the creation of a single monumental building as when Chicago's Auditorium opened in December 1889.
Description: "In this illustrated book, Joseph M. Siry explores not just the architectural history of the Auditorium Building, but also the crucial role it played in Chicago's social history.

Covering the Auditorium from the early design to its opening, its later renovations, its links to culture and politics in Chicago, and its influence on later Adler and Sullivan works (including the Schiller Building and the Chicago Stock Exchange Building), The Chicago Auditorium Building recounts the tale of a building that helped to define a city and an era."--BOOK JACKET.