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Available
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Call number
977.31172 SI
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Publication
University of Chicago Press (1970), Edition: 2nd Revised edition, 272 pages
Description
Here is the thoroughly revised and updated edition of the leading pocket guide to the greatest urban architecture in the United States. Since its first appearance in 1965, this book has been the standard guide to Chicago's best buildings. This new edition 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.
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LibraryThing member pussreboots
It's a thorough pictorial history broken up first by era and then by location of the Windy City's skyscrapers. Unfortunately the book's age keeps more than 20 years of recent architectural changes to the city's skyline out of the text. For someone looking for the architecture of the 1980s onward,
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this edition is not the one to go for. If however, one is looking for a solid resource for older architecture, this book will compliment newer books nicely. Show Less
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Original language
English
ISBN
0226756858 / 9780226756851