100 years of architecture in Chicago
Subtitle: continuity of structure and form , exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
By: by Oswald W. Grube, Peter C. Pran, and Franz Schulze ; translations and additional text by David Norris.
Contributors: Pran, Peter C.; Schulze, Franz, 1927-; Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.); Hundert Jahre Architektur in Chicago.
Publisher: Follett
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Exhibitions.; Architecture, Modern -- 19th century -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Exhibitions.; Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Exhibitions.; Chicago -- Buildings -- Exhibitions.
Description: Chicago has come to be known as the single most important metropolis in the history of modern architecture - the one with the most coherent building tradition. This book explores virtually all the structures that have established this reputation, with particular emphasis on the direction taken over the past 100 years.
Notes: German version published in 1973 under title, 100 (i.e. Hundert) Jahre Architektur in Chicago.

"The American version ... presented ... in May and June of 1976, has been expanded to include new buildings planned and erected between 1973 and the present."

Includes index.

Bibliography, p. 181-184.