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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wolner, Edward W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Colección:Chicago architecture and urbanism.
Temas:
Cobb, Henry Ives, > 1859-1931.
University of Chicago > Buildings.
University of Chicago.
Architecture > Illinois > Chicago.
ARCHITECTURE > Individual Architects & Firms > Essays.
ARCHITECTURE > Individual Architects & Firms > Monographs.
Architecture.
Buildings.
Illinois > Chicago.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: A Proper Bostonian's Chicago; 1. The Union Club, Self-Made Men, and Chicago's First Period of Growth; 2. Three Mansions, Four Self-Makers, and Chicago's Metropolitan Expansion; 3. Skyscrapers and Rationalized Work I; 4. Cultural Politics and the Newberry Library; Part II: Cultural Institutions and Metropolitan Maturity; 5. Cobb's Varieties of the Romanesque; 6. Skyscrapers and Rationalized Work II; 7. Self-Made Men, Civic Culture, and the University of Chicago (1889-1893).
  • 8. Science, Self-Makers, and the University's Second Building Campaign (1893-1897)9. Design, Civic Discourse, and Rationalized Government; Part III: Trials and Triumphs In and Outside Chicago; 10. Professional Ethics, and the Pennsylvania State Capitol; 11. Falls from Grace; 12. Chicago in New York; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.

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