A major reason why Chicago has tremendously flourished in those 70 years was its architecture, known as the Commercial Style, or the Chicago School.
From Tribune Tower to the South Shore Cultural Center, these buildings are the heart and soul of the city.
The Chicago School of architecture originated in the early 1900s with the theories of Louis Sullivan. This design is inspired by the geometric stained glass windows from this era in the early Arts and Crafts movement.Woven in the USA from a poly/cotton blend on jacquard looms. Approximately 14.5 inches x 73.5 inches. Spot clean with gentle detergent for best results. Lay flat to dry.
Five architecture professors were posed the question: What’s one American structure you wish had been saved?
1880’s-1910’s The Chicago School comprises an intellectually elite group of progressive architects in late-19th-century Chicago, Illinois. They introduce the skyscraper, a new building …
19th Century Louis Sullivan Chicago Building Architectural Fragment There are hints of green paint. Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism." He was an influential architect of the Chicago School, a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School. Along with Wright and Henry Hobson Richardson, Sullivan is one of "the recognized trinity of American architecture." The phrase "form follows function" is attributed to him, although the idea was theorised by Viollet le Duc who considered that structure and function in architecture should be the sole determinants of form. In 1944, Sullivan was the second architect to posthumously receive the AIA Gold Medal. less
Indiana University (IU) has shared an update of their Mies Building at the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design. The scheme, currently under construction, realizes a recently rediscovered 1952 design by Mies van der Rohe for the IU Bloomington campus. The scheme has been adapted for...
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The Academy for Global Citizenship Charter School in Chicago will teach kids how to grow their own food and will also generate more energy than the school consumes.
Photographer Lee Bey’s new book Southern Exposure celebrates the often-overlooked architecture of Chicago’s South Side, an area known as a place of abandonment and violence
The Academy for Global Citizenship Charter School in Chicago will teach kids how to grow their own food and will also generate more energy than the school consumes.
Kneeland Co. Rarities is proud to feature the ceramics of New York-based designer and artist Shane Gabier. A graduate of design, fashion, and architecture from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Shane focused on clothing design until 2017, when he began to design and produce furniture and lighting. As an independent exploration, he began to work in clay in 2018, first developing functional pieces on the wheel, and in 2020 began to construct sculptural, hand-built forms, both functional and non-functional. His current body of work is focused on the study of form, color, and texture, and pairs utilitarian functionality with ornamental design, informed by modernist design, 70s psychedelia, and Brutalist architecture. Measurements: 12" in diameter, includes open holes for hanging
Designed by Studio Gang. Studio Gang has designed a new home for the Academy for Global Citizenship (AGC), a Chicago Public Charter School in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood....
The Krause Music Store, the last commission by Louis Sullivan. Designed in 1922. If you’re in Chicago, don’t miss Louis Sullivan’s Idea at the Chicago Cultural Center. If a book is more your style, check out Sullivan’s City.
THE CITY OF WONDERS A SOUVENIR OF THE WORLD'S FAIR by Mary Catherine Crowley (1894)
In 1930, Luigi Pellegrin’s father is working on the Buon Pastore compound in Rome, the future seat of the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd of Augiere. Pellegrin writes: “I was five years old when I entered Buon Pastore. I spent there the following five years, while the building grew up faster than me”. The compound is a huge baroque castle set on green hills sliding down towards the city; on the background, in the distance, Saint Peter’s dome. All around just green fields. Twenty years later, at the beginning of the 50s, Pellegrin starts his career as an architect. The war has just finished, reconstruction is starting and Pellegrin chooses the organic way. He takes root in Wright. In the first half of the 50s, he goes repeatedly to the United States. First in Louisiana where the experience in the practice of W. R. Burck will immediately oblige him to face the subject of school building. Then in Chicago. In the Art Institute, a woman shows him Louis Sullivan’s drawings. He will be struck by them and that vision will nourish all his research. During these stays he starts a deep investigation on the entire body of the “Chicago School”. In 1956 Pellegrin meets Wright who is in Rome as Bruno Zevi’s guest. He appreciates Wright’s capacity to “skip history and let archaic shapes reemerge”, but in Sullivan’s drawings - observed in the Art Institute of Chicago - he glimpsed something indefinite and clear at the same time. In those drawings, made of rigid and flowing geometries, Pellegrin sees chaos and cosmos, primordial impulses, coagulating fluxes of energy. A freeze-frame of the primordial soup. In line with Soleri and Fuller’s approach, Pellegrin proposes interventions on planetary level. He imagines to locate the population in a overhead ring along the equator. “On our planet Earth the temperate zone is the most appropriate place to live in harmony with natural conditions”. In a vision which denies anthropocentrism, but not the role of man, Pellegrin proposes a new place for man on the planet. A place that leaves space also to others, to nature, to vegetation. Visions of a freed environment where the buildings are limited to dense hubs raised from the ground. Clearing the ground is the constant imperative: the place for man is above, in specialized macro branches connected through lines which contain energy fluxes. On the ground, nature regains its space; the artificial is limited to few, dense singular points. Changing perspective, jumping to the planet level, Pellegrin shows us how to face the theme of sustainability in a different, almost brave, way. Luigi Pellegrin, 1925 – 2001 Text by Sergio Bianchi
Gensler was tasked with bringing the first ever Student Center to Columbia College Chicago, located in Chicago, Illinois. Columbia College Chicago’s five-story, 114,000-square-foot student center […]
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Chicago School design by Holabird & Roche, Chicago • one of the first steel-framed skyscrapers • bas relief panels by sculptor Hermon Atkins MacNeil, depict Father Jacques Marquette expedition (1674-75), 1st European settler in Chicago • designated Chicago Landmark, 1975 • National Register #73000697, 1973 • wikipedia • history -McArthhur Foundation • National Register
With ambitious performance goals, a set of buildings at Amherst College, the University of Chicago, and the National University of Singapore foster collaboration and reflect changing values.
Repasamos la filosofía de Louis Sullivan y los edificios más importantes de la conocida como Escuela de Chicago: el Auditorio, el Schiller, el Wainwright...
In this lesson, students learn more about famous structures and landmarks in Chicago, Illinois and the individuals who created them. Students choose the landmarks they will research and then create a presentation using Google Earth to showcase their information along with pictures, videos and maps. Included with the lesson are student expectations, grading rubric and a tutorial for Google Earth (a free, Web 2.0 tool that does not require download). For classrooms with limited technology, this lesson can be completed with students working in pairs or small groups. The completed presentations can be shared with the rest of the class if the teacher chooses. This is a great activity for a social studies or history class, or for a technology class. This lesson was designed for middle school (grades 6-8) but could be used in upper elementary grades or high school as well. Materials Required: · Computers with Internet access for each student (or pair of students) · Access to Microsoft PowerPoint or Google Slides (optional – students can use Web 2.0 tools instead) Files included: · Teacher & Student Resources · Student Instructions, Expectations and Grading Rubric · Google Earth Getting Started Tutorial Approximate Lesson Duration: · Introduction to the Lesson: Video (link below), overview of the project - .5 - 1 (50 minute) class period · Research and Google Earth Project: 2-4 (50 minute) class periods · Presentation of projects to class (optional): Time will vary based on how many presentations are shown and time for discussion This lesson is great for distance learning/remote learning. You can upload it to your school's learning management system (Google Classroom, Edmodo, Canvas, etc.) or share with students via Google Drive. Note: This lesson replaces Google Tours Architectural Landmarks of Chicago | Distance Learning since Google Tours is being discontinued 7/2021. Related Products ⭐ Architectural Landmarks in Chicago - Research & Creative Technology Project ⭐ Architectural Landmarks in Dallas - Research & Creative Technology Project ⭐ Architectural Landmarks in Dubai - Research & Creative Technology Project ⭐ Architectural Landmarks in London - Research & Creative Technology Project ⭐ Architectural Landmarks in New York - Research & Creative Technology Project ⭐ Architectural Landmarks in Paris - Research & Creative Technology Project ⭐ Architectural Landmarks in Rome, Italy - Research & Creative Tech Project ⭐ Architectural Landmarks in San Francisco - Creative Technology Project ⭐ Architectural Landmarks in Singapore - Research & Creative Technology Project ⭐ Architectural Landmarks in Washington, DC - Research & Creative Tech Project Remember to leave feedback for credits on future purchases! ************************************************************************** Connect with us for free technology tips, resources and curriculum: Follow our blog Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Pinterest Visit our Website
In 1930, Luigi Pellegrin’s father is working on the Buon Pastore compound in Rome, the future seat of the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd of Augiere. Pellegrin writes: “I was five years old when I entered Buon Pastore. I spent there the following five years, while the building grew up faster than me”. The compound is a huge baroque castle set on green hills sliding down towards the city; on the background, in the distance, Saint Peter’s dome. All around just green fields. Twenty years later, at the beginning of the 50s, Pellegrin starts his career as an architect. The war has just finished, reconstruction is starting and Pellegrin chooses the organic way. He takes root in Wright. In the first half of the 50s, he goes repeatedly to the United States. First in Louisiana where the experience in the practice of W. R. Burck will immediately oblige him to face the subject of school building. Then in Chicago. In the Art Institute, a woman shows him Louis Sullivan’s drawings. He will be struck by them and that vision will nourish all his research. During these stays he starts a deep investigation on the entire body of the “Chicago School”. In 1956 Pellegrin meets Wright who is in Rome as Bruno Zevi’s guest. He appreciates Wright’s capacity to “skip history and let archaic shapes reemerge”, but in Sullivan’s drawings - observed in the Art Institute of Chicago - he glimpsed something indefinite and clear at the same time. In those drawings, made of rigid and flowing geometries, Pellegrin sees chaos and cosmos, primordial impulses, coagulating fluxes of energy. A freeze-frame of the primordial soup. In line with Soleri and Fuller’s approach, Pellegrin proposes interventions on planetary level. He imagines to locate the population in a overhead ring along the equator. “On our planet Earth the temperate zone is the most appropriate place to live in harmony with natural conditions”. In a vision which denies anthropocentrism, but not the role of man, Pellegrin proposes a new place for man on the planet. A place that leaves space also to others, to nature, to vegetation. Visions of a freed environment where the buildings are limited to dense hubs raised from the ground. Clearing the ground is the constant imperative: the place for man is above, in specialized macro branches connected through lines which contain energy fluxes. On the ground, nature regains its space; the artificial is limited to few, dense singular points. Changing perspective, jumping to the planet level, Pellegrin shows us how to face the theme of sustainability in a different, almost brave, way. Luigi Pellegrin, 1925 – 2001 Text by Sergio Bianchi
The best, most holistic, and organic identity systems are often the ones where a design team and a client have a long-standing relationship, allowing an initial concept to strengthen and become more immersive over time. For Amsterdam’s Main Studio, an agency with consistently strong work for the arc
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Just like every other major architectural exhibition, the Chicago Architecture Biennial is a massive undertaking filled with large scale models, full size
