Contents

FOREWORD / RICHARD SOLOMON / vii

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS /x

INTRODUCTION: CHICAGO IS HISTORY /CHARLES WALOHEIM AND KATERINA ROEDI RAY / XUl

Part One Revisions 1 Western Architecture: Regionalism and Race in the Inland Architect JOANNA MERWOOO / 3

2 Myth of the Chicago School ROBERT BRUEGMANN / 15

3 The Centrality of the Columbian Exposition in the History of Chicago Architecture

OAVI D VAN ZANTEN / }O

4 William Le Baron Jenney and Chicago's West Parks: From Prairies to Pleasure-Grounds

REUBEN M . RAINEY / 37

5 Does Frank Lloyd Wright Belong in Chicago's Architectural History? SIDNEY K ROB IN SON / 53

6 Preservation and Renewal in Post-World War II Chicago DANIEL BLUESTONE / 61

7 More than Mies: Architecture of Chicago Multifamily Housing, 1935-65 ERIC MUMFORO / 82

8 Selling Mies DAVID PUNSTER / 93

9 Inside Mies: Living at 860/880 Lake Shore Drive JANET ABRAMS / 103

Part Two Alternatives 10 1614 North Hermitage Avenue: Painting as Inscription JULIA FISH / in

11 A Century of Progress: An Alternate Tale LEE BEY /124

12 Only Girl Architect Lonely SUSAN F. KING /129

13 Marion Mahoney Griffin: The Chicago Years PAMELA HILL /143

14 The Third Chicago School?: Marking Sexual and Ethnic Identity CHRISTOPHER REED/163

15 The Chicago Parks: Tabfeaus of Naturalization JANE WO IFF / 176

16 The Architectural Photography of Hedrich-Blessing ROSERT A. SOBIESZEK / 181 17 Forms of the Grid MITCHELL SCHWARZER /196

18 Wish You Were Here: Alvin Boyarsky's Picture Postcards IGOR MARJANOVIC /207

19 Bertrand Goldberg: A Personal View of Architecture GEOFFREY GOLDS ERG / 226

20 Making Marina City: Men, Money, Masquerade and Modernity KATERINA ROEDI RAY / 242,

21 Walter Netsch: Field Theory MARTIN FELSEN AND SARAH DUNN / 253

22 Systematic Genius: Walter Netsch and the Architecture of Bureaucracy DAVIDGOOOMAN / 2.61

23 Opposing Mies: The Triangular Constructs of Harry Weese LEAK RAY/285

24 Diminishing High-Rise Public Housing JANET L SMITH / 292

25 Understanding Chicago's High-Rise Public Housing Disaster D BRADFORD HUNT/301

26 Bas-Relief Urbanism: Chicago's Figured Field SARAH WHITING / 314

27 From Operational Anonymity to Brand identity: Chicago O'Hare CHARLES WALDHEIM / 327

28 From Flesh to Fiberglass: "Cows on Parade" in Chicago c. GREIG CRYSLER/347

NOTES / 361

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS / 4O9

INDEX / 4II