
University of Chicago
An Architectural Tour
Jay Pridmore(Author)
Princeton Architectural Press
1st Edition
Published on 2. February 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
194 pages
978-1-56898-447-6 (ISBN)
Description
The newest title in the "Princeton Architectural Press Campus Guide" series takes readers on a tour of the University of Chicago, an institution that since its founding in 1890 has exerted a profound impact on American higher education. This elegantly written guide highlights the fascinating social and intellectual history of the university showing the campus as a wonderfully eccentric and vastly under appreciated element of Chicago's revered built environment. Designed in the English Gothic style of its time, the original campus, planned by Chicago architect Henry Ives Cobb, had a commonality of vision that made it equal in quality to the finest in America. As the traditional reliance on the Gothic gave way to modernist styles, the campus was expanded with buildings by such notable architects as Eero Saarinen, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Walter Netsch. The university's most recent additions include Cesar Pelli's 2003 Gerald Ratner Athletics Center and Rafel Vinoly's Graduate School of Business complex. Beautifully photographed in full color, the guide presents an architectural walk of this campus distinguished by landmark buildings.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Adult education
Illustrations
10
156 Farbfotos bzw. farbige Rasterbilder, 12 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 10 farbige Zeichnungen
178 illus., 166 in color
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 159 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-56898-447-6 (9781568984476)
Schweitzer Classification