Chicago Auditorium Building Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City

Name: Chicago Auditorium Building Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City
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ISBN: 9780226761343

ISBN-10: 0226761347

ISBN-13: 9780226761343

Edition: 2004

Authors: Joseph M. Siry

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Winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award from the Society of Architectural HistoriansWhen the magnificent Auditorium Building opened on Chicago's Michigan Avenue in December 1889, it marked Chicago's emergence both as the leading city of the Midwest and as a metropolis of international stature. In this lavishly illustrated book, Joseph M. Siry explores not just the architectural history of the Auditorium Building but also the crucial role it played in Chicago's social history. Covering the Auditorium from the early design stage to its opening, its later renovations, its links to culture and politics in Chicago, and its influence on later Adler and Sullivan works (including the Schiller…

Book details

List price: $56.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 580
Size: 8.50" wide x 10.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 4.026



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Ferdinand Peck, Chicago Politics, and Chicago Theaters to 1880



Theater Architecture and Social Conflict in Chicago, 1880-1886



Initiating and Designing the Auditorium Building



The Auditorium Theater



The Auditorium Hotel: Architecture and Urban Life



Adler and Sullivan's Later Architecture in Chicago, 1890-1894


Epilogue: The Chicago Auditorium Building since 1890



Chicago Loop Properties of Philip F. W. Peck and His Sons, 1849-1896


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index