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Date: 1912 Title: Architectural Styles for Country Homes. The characteristics and merits of various types of architecture as set forth by enthusiastic advocates. The Country House Library. A series of architectural books for the layman. (Hard Cover) (Published by McBride, Nast & Company, New York.
Author: Edited by: Saylor, Henry H. Ch. 10: Garden, Hugh M. G.
Description: Contains ten articles which were previously published House and Garden "at irregular intervals". Chapter 9 was first published in the October 1910 issue, under the title "Country Homes of the western Plains". "The Style of the Western Plains. I am asked to contribute something on an unnamed style, sometimes vaguely referred to as the product of the Western or Chicago school - it would be presumption to appropriate to anything so tenuous the imposing title "American Style"... They show, however, a common freedom from the restraint of accepted academic formulas of design and a general inclination on the part of their designers to build simply from local conditions..." Photographic examples by Sullivan, Griffin, Spencer & Powers and Wright. Wright's homes shown are the Coonley Residence (1907 - S.135) and the Darwin Martin Conservatory (1904 - S.100-102). Twombly points out in "Frank Lloyd Wright, His Life and His Architecture", page 162, Garden describes Wright as "merely one of many prairie architects... also implied that Sullivan, not Wright, had founded the "western" style of residential architecture." Includes 31 glossy sheets printed with black & white photographs both sides. Original list price $2.00. (First Edition)
Size: 7.25 x 10
Pages: Pp 124 plus 64 pages of black & white photographs
S#: 0114.11.0313
Date: 1952
Title: The Rise of the Skyscraper (Hard Cover DJ) Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago; Cambridge University Press, London; W.J. Gage & Co., Limited, Toronto)
Author: Condit, Carl W.
Description: The building boom in Chicago that followed on the great fire of 1871 fast became an aesthetic revolution. Chicago was suddenly the leader in an architectural renaissance which was to leave its mark on the cities of the world. For in the space of a quarter-century, stone masonry, with its age old limitations, was triumphantly replaced by the steel skeleton of the worlds first skyscraper. Brilliant and creative architects -- such man is Sullivan, Burnham, Jenny, Root, Richardson, Adler, Roche, Holabird, Warren -- became known as the Chicago school..." References throughout to Frank Lloyd Wright. (First Edition)
Size: 7 x 9.75
Pages: Pp 255
S#: 0910.38.0418Date: 1964 Description: A broadside for "The Chicago School of Architecture," by Carl W. Condit, published by The Unity of Chicago Press, $8.50. "The development of the art of building associated with the phrase "The Chicago School" is now recognized as a major event in American culture. By 1910 the movement had produced an original, indigenous, and organic architecture for every kind of building - offices, skyscrapers, hotels and apartments, warehouses and factories, residences, schools and churches..." (Broadside published by Prairie School Press, Chicago) Gift of Greg Brewer.
Size: 8.5 x 14
Pages: Pp 1
S#: 1596.58.0516
Date: 1980 Title: The Chicago School of Architecture, A History of Commercial and Public Buildings in the Chicago Area, 1875 1925 (Soft Cover, 7th edition) (Published by The Unity of Chicago Press, Chicago and London.)
Author: Condit, Carl W.
Description: First published in 1952 as "The Rise of the Skyscraper". "This thoroughly illustrated study traces the history of the world-famous Chicago school of architecture from its beginnings with the functional innovations of William Le Baron and others to their imaginative development by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright." (Publisher's Description.) Includes references to Wright, one photograph of Francis Apartments and three photographs of the interior of the Rookery Building. (This Seventh Edition published in 1980.)
Size: 6.75 x 9.5
Pages: Pp 238
S#: 1573.01.0810
Date: 1986 Title: The Chicago School of Architecture, A History of Commercial and Public Buildings in the Chicago Area, 1875 1925 (Soft Cover, 8th edition) (Published by The Unity of Chicago Press, Chicago and London.)
Author: Condit, Carl W.
Description: First published in 1952 as "The Rise of the Skyscraper". "This thoroughly illustrated study traces the history of the world-famous Chicago school of architecture from its beginnings with the functional innovations of William Le Baron and others to their imaginative development by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright." (Publisher's Description.) Includes references to Wright, one photograph of Francis Apartments and three photographs of the interior of the Rookery Building. (This eighth edition published in 1986.)
Size: 6.75 x 9.5
Pages: Pp 238
S#: 1573.02.0613
Date: 1998
Title: The Chicago School of Architecture. A History of Commercial and Public Buildings in the Chicago Area, 1875-1925. Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, London.)
Author: Condit, Carl W.
Description: First published in 1952 as "The Rise of the Skyscraper". "This thoroughly illustrated study traces the history of the world-famous Chicago school of architecture from its beginnings with the functional innovations of William Le Baron and others to their imaginative development by Louis Sullivan and FLW." (Publisher's Description.) Includes references to Wright and one photograph of Francis Apartments and three photographs of the interior of the Rookery Building. (This twelfth edition published in 1998.) (Twelfth Edition)
Size: 6.75 x 9.5.
Pages: Pp 238
S#: 1573.03.0318Date: 1964 Title: The Chicago School of Architecture (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Random House, New York)
Author: Peisch, Mark
Description: Original HC List Price $4.95. (First Edition) (Sweeney 1567)
Size:
Pages: Pp 177
S#: 1567.00.0102
Date: 1964 Title: The Chicago School of Architecture (Soft Cover) (Published by Random House, New York)
Author: Peisch, Mark
Description: Original SC List Price $2.95. (First SC Edition) (Sweeney 1567)
Size:
Pages: Pp 177
S#: 1567.01.1098
Date: 1953
Title: Letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to Mark Peisch, Columbia University 1953.
Description: Typed and signed letter from Frank Lloyd Wright on Taliesin West stationery with the original envelope. "Mr. Mark L. Peisch, Foreign Student Advisor, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York 27, N. Y. My dear Mr. Peisch: Walter Burley Griffin was employed by me in the Oak Park Studio for about six years. (about 1893 to 1899 - (not sure)). It was all the education in Architecture he received so far as I know. His wife, Marian was also there with me for eleven years. Sincerely, Frank Lloyd Wright, February 21, 1953." Note: After graduation from the University of Illinois in 1899, Griffin worked as a draftsman in the office of Dwight Perkins, Robert C. Spencer, Jr., and H. Webster Tomlinson in Chicago. He then went to work in Wright's Studio in Oak Park from 1901 to 1905. He then opened his own practice. Biography from Columbia University: Mark Lyons Peisch (b. 1921) received his B.A. in History and History of Art from Dartmouth College in 1944. At Dartmouth, he was introduced by Professor Hugh Morrison, noted scholar of Louis Sullivan, to the work of Chicago School architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin. Peisch taught briefly at Dartmouth in 1947 before entering Columbia University in 1949 as a graduate student in the Department of Fine Arts and Archeology. His doctoral thesis was on the Griffins and their contemporaries. He was awarded his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1959 with the completion of his dissertation "The Chicago School and Walter Burley Griffin, 1893-1914: Growth and Dissemination of an Architectural Movement and a Representative Figure," which was published in 1964 by Columbia University Press and Random House as "The Chicago School of Architecture: Early Followers of Sullivan and Wright."
Size: Letterhead: 10.9 x 8.4, Envelope: 8.9 x 3.9.
S#: 0987.92.0917Date: 1967
Title: Architectural Essays From The Chicago School: Thomas Tallmadge, Louis H. Sullivan, Jens Jensen and Frank Lloyd Wright. From 1900 to 1909. A Prairie School Press Reissue (Published by The Prairie School Press, Forest Park, IL)
Author: Edited by W.R. Hasbrouck: 1) Thomas Tallmadge: 4-7) Frank Lloyd Wright
Description: Includes reprints of the following articles: 1) "The Chicago School" The Architectural Review, April 1908, Pp 69-74. Includes three Wright photographs. (S#83). 2) "Current Periodicals" The Architectural Review, April 1908, Pp 78. Includes five Wright photographs. 4) "A Home in a Prairie Town" The Ladies Home Journal, February 1901, Pp 17. Includes five illustrations. (S#45). 5) "A Small House with Lots of Room in It" The Ladies Home Journal, July 1901, Pp 15. Includes six illustrations. (S#46). 6) "A Fireproof House for $5000" The Ladies Home Journal, April 1907, Pp 24. Includes four illustrations. (S#80). 7) "The Village Bank Series" The Brickbuilder, August 1901, Pp 160-161. Includes three illustrations. (S#48). Original SC list price $2.50. (First Edition) (Sweeney 1682)
Size: 11 x 14
Pages: Pp 20
S#: 1682.00.1206Date: 1973
Title: The Chicago School of Architecture. A plan for Preserving a Significant Remnant of America's Architectural Heritage. (Soft Cover) (Published by the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service)
Author: Miller, Hugh C.
Description: "Between the late 1870's and the First World War one of the most significant architectural movements since the Renaissance flourished in Chicago. The "Chicago School," as it came to be called, produced an original architectural expression based on the application of industrial technology responsive to new economic demands and social concerns. Mirroring and shaping life styles, this architecture anticipated and influenced today's patterns of urban and suburban life in the United States and Europe... The development of the Chicago School has long been associated with an inferred master-pupil role of the great triumvirate of American architecture: H. H. Richardson, Louis H. Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright... Wright inherited Sullivan's role as the dominant force in the search for a rational architecture. Although his writings and theories are not as universally adaptable as Sullivan's, his studio produced a great number of designers who worked in the spirit of the Chicago School. However, from this group perhaps only Walter Burley Griffin, William E. Drummond, and Barry Byrne developed an individuality of architectural design beyond Wrightian forms...." Includes photographs of the Gale Residence, Willits Residence, Unity Temple, Robie House (3), Charnley and Coonley Residences. (First Edition)
Size: 8 x 10.5
Pages: Pp 37
S#: 1940.19.0417Date: 1981
Title: Chicago School Architects and Their Critics (Hard Cover) (Published by UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan)
Author: Charernbhak, Wichit
Description: Preface: "It was several years ago when I was a young student studying for a bachelor of architecture degree at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand that I first became aware of the architecture of the late nineteenth century in Chicago. Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright where then everybody's heroes. Through a few courses in the history of Western architecture, I was awakened to an appreciation of the concept and philosophy of the Chicago School. Yet, it was not until my initial sojourn in the United States when I came here to pursue graduate studies in architecture in fine arts first, from 1962 to 1964 at the University of Illinois and then, from 1965 to 1967 at Michigan State University that I became fascinated with the School, its architects and its ideals. When the opportunity presented itself for me to return to United States in 1973 for further study in the field of the history of art, I was determined to make the Chicago School of Architecture my special object of investigation. Throughout the study my fascination with the subject has remained unabated..." References to Frank Lloyd Wright throughout. (Second Edition)
Size: 6 x 9.25
Pages: Pp 214
ST#: 1981.145.1217Date: 1991 Title: Louis Sullivan And The Chicago School (Hard Cover - DJ)
Author: Frazier, Nancy
Description: Original Hard Cover List Price $15.99, Soft Cover List Price $12.99. (First Edition)
Size:
Pages: Pp 112
ST#: 1991.11.1100
Date: 2013/2017
Title: The Chicago School of Architecture, Building The Modern City, 1880-1910 ( Soft Cover) (Published by Shire Publications, Oxford, UK. First published in 2013, reprinted in 2017.)
Author: Achilles, Rolf
Description: Back Cover: "The birth of the skyscraper in Chicago in the mid-1880s introduced a new direction for city architecture: upwards. But how - and why - was it that Chicago set the standard for high-rise buildings, not only across the USA but all over the world? Rolf Achilles here introduces the style of the First Chicago School from 1880 to 1910, explaining the innovative use of iron frames for strength, height and openness, and the ubiquity of gridded window arrangements. With reference to such famous architects as William Le Baron Jenny and Frank Lloyd Wright, and colorful pictures of, among many others, the Reliance, Brooks and Marquette buildings, this book is a fascinating exploration of the structures that helped to give Chicago its identity, and the world a new way of building..." Includes a brief description of Frank Lloyd Wright's remodel of the Rookery Building. Original list price $9.95. (Second Edition)
Size: 6 x 8.25
Pages: Pp 64
ST#: 2013.37.1123
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