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Website: www.windycitystyle.weebly.com Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7bni68yFG8c#t=0 Detailed information on Chicago Architecture designed in an intuitive way. Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan were the major focuses and I even made a video on Frank Lloyd Wright. My website is www.uncoveringsuperman.com and www.Zodhi.com
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How it became the nations architectural image
CHICAGO STYLE ARCHITECTURE
THE GREAT CITY OF CHICAGO
Chicago was a booming city, a huge metropolitan area, and the second most populace city in the United States.
Before 1871
Its architecture strongly resembled the “European Style”. There wasn’t really a “ American Style” of architecture.
THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE OCTOBER 8-10 1871
Destroying 18,000 buildings , killing nearly 300 people, and leaving 100,000 homeless.
DAMAGE
The "Burnt District," nearly four miles long and almost a mile wide, included most of the central business district and many residential areas
CHICAGO RISES FROM THE ASHES
Reconstruction began almost instantly after the fire. Giving the city a chance to start again. Between 1872 and 1879 more than ten thousand construction permits were issued. With reconstruction came the need for architects, and many responded.
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CHICAGO SCHOOL1875-1910 response to the Chicago fire.
The school focused on mainly commercial buildings
Used modern technology to replace
load-bearing walls with steal frame construction
Also known for the modern skyscraper, as well as the
Chicago window
Concepts regarding light and space, as well as emphasis
on height . “
Form Follows Function”
William Le Baron Jenney
Louis Sullivan
Dankmar Adler
Frank Lloyd Wright
John Wellborn Root
Daniel Hudson Burnham
THE CHICAGO SCHOOL ARCHITECTS
Steal Frame
Terra-cotta
Elevators
Tube System
Large plate glass
NEW TECHNOLOGY
CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE
Beaux-Arts—a highly decorative style that copied the classical architecture of the Greeks and Romans
How does this Radical Architecture break away from European traditions and create a “Modern Style” that is
uniquely American?
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
Throughout the presentation ask yourself why architecture is more than just buildings? THINK DEEP
Try to witness how every part of a building serves its overall purpose, and how the buildings truly represent
the architects that created them?
How would changing the architecture of a city also change the society in the process?
GUIDING QUESTIONS
LOUIS SULLIVAN
Form Follows Function
The father of the
skyscraper
Showed nature
through architectu
re
ORNAMENTATION
ADLER AND SULLIVAN BUILDINGS
Jewelers building 1881
Carson, Pirie, Scott and Co 1898
Auditorium Building (1886-1890)
James Charnley House 1892
Overall Emotion
DetailsPurpose
FRANK LLOYD
Org
an
ic
original
UNIQUE
Prairie Style
Rad
icalInteresting
PRAIRIE STYLE
Usonian homes
Natural cooling and natural light
windows
Flat roofs, solar heating, and floor heating
Strong visual connection between the outside and the inside.
Stripped away all exterior ornamentation.
More window then wall
Known also as the Second Chicago School
Concept: Less is more-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Originated in Germany in 1930s. In Chicago it went from
the 1940s-1970s
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
(Illinois Institute of technology)
Fazlur Klan
(engineer, System of framed tubes)
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ARCHITECTS
SYSTEM OF FRAMED TUBES
DeWitt Chestnut Apartment Building 1963
John Hancock Prairie Style 1969