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Henry Ives Cobb's Chicago : Architecture, Institutions, and the Making of a Modern Metropolis.
When championing the commercial buildings and homes that made the Windy City famous, one can't help but mention the brilliant names of their architects--Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others. But few people are aware of Henry Ives Cobb (1859-1931), the man respons...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago, IL :
University of Chicago Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Chicago architecture and urbanism.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | When championing the commercial buildings and homes that made the Windy City famous, one can't help but mention the brilliant names of their architects--Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others. But few people are aware of Henry Ives Cobb (1859-1931), the man responsible for an extraordinarily rich chapter in the city's turn-of-the-century building boom, and fewer still realize Cobb's lasting importance as a designer of the private and public institutions that continue to enrich Chicago's exceptional architectural heritage. Henry Ives Cobb's Chicago is the first book. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (395 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-373) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226905631 0226905632 1283362945 9781283362948 9780226905617 0226905616 |