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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A great book on a unsung great architectBy Michael OverstreetI have always admired Harry Weese's work ever since I rode the Washington DC metro to the Smithsonian Campus.Hard to imagine a grand space underground.Growing up in ,there are many examples of his work.This books gives great detail and tells warts and all about his struggles and victories.Anyone insterested in American architecture of any style or period,should own this work.Great photographs and catalog of built/unbuilt structures. After meeting author mthe dedication of Weese shines through,Chicago's unsung modern architect.4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Great Architect, Great ReadBy Scott J. TildenHarry Weese was a great modern architect and a restorer of masterworks like Burnham's Union Station in Washington, D.C. and Sullivan's Auditorium Building in Chicago. Weese's work ranged widely from designing cutting-edge structures to restoring pivotal buildings in American architectural history and from creating the much-loved METRO transit system in Washington, D.C. to championing the design of college-student, , in the competition for the VietNam War Memorial. No wonder Harry Weese was known as the "Conscience of Chicago."For the first time, this book tells the story of the life and designs of this architect who was trained at MIT and Cranbrook. Its author Robert Bruegmann is the foremost historian on Chicago architecture, having written The Architects and the City: Holabird Roche of Chicago, 1880-1918. Unlike many other illustrated architecture books, the story is the central focus with a vivid account of the complex artist Harry Weese and the buildings he loved to create.0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Gift itemBy readerThis was a gift item. The photos are clear and detailed enough to see what the man was trying for and how well he accomplished his tgoal.

This study tells the story of one of America’s most gifted architects of the postwar years.During a career that spanned half a century from the 1930s to the 1980s, Weese produced a large number of significant designs ranging from small but highly inventive houses to large urban scale commissions like the Washington, D.C., Metro system. Although influenced to some degree by the rational, and often austere, work of European modernists like Mies van der Rohe, in most of his own oeuvre Weese instead followed the example of Nordic architects like Gunnar Asplund and in favoring natural materials, human scale, and comfort; his work was characterized by a deep respect for older buildings and existing urban patterns and a fondness for unexpected, often idiosyncratic design decisions.This book takes its place within a fast-growing revival of interest in the work of Weese and a number of his friends and contemporaries with shared assumptions and sensibilities, notably , Edward Larrabee Barnes, I. M. Pei, , and Paul Rudolph. As important as Weese’s buildings were, though, they were only one part of what almost all his contemporaries recognized as his seemingly inexhaustible creativity. Because Weese believed that design was essentially problem-solving, he was willing to apply his skills to everything from a piece of furniture to an entire city. The city on which he lavished the most attention was his own city, Chicago, where he seemed to be everywhere at once, praising, criticizing, cheerleading, and pouring out ideas for creating a humane and livable place for citizens of all walks of life. 56 color and 120 black-and-white illustrations

“[T]his wonderful book by Robert Bruegmann illustrates [that Weese] was an inventive and thoughtful humanist, concerned as much with how people used and perceived his spaces as their aesthetic implications for other architects. . . . The book is candid in its discussion of this tremendously talented man and both his successes and shortcomings.” - Life of an Architect“[P]rovides a thorough and insightful account of the wide-range career of an amazingly multifaceted architect, which is long overdue.” - DOCOMOMO“[T]his is not the usual hagiographic posthumous monograph. But it does reveal Weese’s protean talent for manipulating forms, angling views and windows in unpredictable ways, and respecting and reinterpreting the past.” - Architect“This book is worth reading for any architecture buff who is not only intrigued with large public projects…but also with innovative modern residential design.” - DC by Design“This book paints an astonishingly full picture of a very gifted, extremely prolific, but, until recently largely unknown American architect. Bruegmann has carefully researched Weese's life and he tells a story which could be regarded as essential reading for anyone setting out on a life in architecture.... [T]he sheer amount and quality of work produced by Weese is extraordinary and his contribution to the built environment in America and beyond is very significant. Time spent reading Bruegmann's sensitive story and pouring over Skolnik's beautiful catalogue will be time well spent.” - RIAS QuarterlyAbout the AuthorRobert Bruegmann, an historian of architecture, landscape, and the built environment, is University Distinguished Professor of Art History, Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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