Chicago architecture
Subtitle: histories, revisions, alternatives
By: edited by Charles Waldheim and Katerina Rüedi Ray.
Contributors: Waldheim, Charles.; Rüedi, Katerina.
Series: Chicago architecture and urbanism
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
Subjects: Architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago; Architecture and society -- Illinois -- Chicago; Chicago (Ill.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Description: "In Chicago Architecture, Charles Waldheim and Katerina Ruedi Ray revise and offer alternatives to the archetypal story of modern architecture in Chicago. Together with an esteemed group of contributors they assert that the mythic status of Chicago architecture has distorted our understanding of the historical circumstances in which it was realized. This searching volume illuminates the importance of photographs, books, magazines, and other media in the cultivation of an international audience for Chicago architecture; it explores the pivotal role of real estate developers, finance and insurance sectors, and speculative capital markets in the development of the city itself; and perhaps most notably, it examines a wide variety of overlooked architectural works and their creators - individuals who did not fit into the dominant modernist narrative." "Offering new insights on Chicago public housing and O'Hare International Airport, on the Columbian Exposition and Marina City, on the city's grid system and the place of women architects in the story of Chicago modernism, and on the subjective experience of living inside Chicago's most well-known buildings, Chicago Architecture is a work of enormous scope and vision."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Outgrowth of a symposium, Chicago is history, held in the fall of 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-407) and index.