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18 February 2002 Art History W36456 New Theories of the City Louis Sullivan, Security Bank, Owatonna, Minnesota 1907-08 vs. Wagner, Post Office Savings Bank Sullivan, Fraternity Temple and Set Back City Projects 1891 Cass Gilbert, Woolworth Building, New York 1913 Willis Polk, Hallidie Building, San Francisco 1915-17 Ernest Flagg, Singer Loft Building, (Soho), New York 1902-04 World’s Columbian Exhibition (World’s Fair), Chicago 1893 (White City) and rejected Proposal ofr a tower, Columbus tower by C. Krinkle & G.R. Pohl (1890) Administration Building by Richard Morris Hunt; Landscaping by Frederick Law Olmstead; Agriculture Building by McKim, Mead & White (1894-97, Columbia University Campus, Morningside Heights) Transportation Building by Louis Sullivan; Masterplanning by Daniel Burnham 1894 American School of Architecture at Rome 1901 Senate Park Commission and new plan for Washington, D.C. led by Daniel Burnham 1903 Burnham, Proposed Civic Center for Cleveland, Ohio 1905 Burnham, Plan for Proposed Civic Center of San Francisco 1904-5 Project for a Government Center in Manilla, Philippines by Burnham & Co. Burnham, Plan of Chicago 1909 Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928) 1898 Tomorrow; a Peaceful Path to Reform. Republished in 1902 at Garden Cities of Tomorrow 1903 Letchworth Garden City with Raymond Unwin 1920 Welwyn Garden City Hellerau Garden City outside Dresden. Work of Henrich Tessenow Eugène Hénard, Etudes sur les transformations de Paris 1903-09 Frank Lloyd Wright vs. the Academic Establishment Influence of the Shingle Style H.H. Richardson, Watts-Sherman House, Newport (1875) with collaboration of Stanford White McKim, Mead & White -- Isaac Bell House, Newport, Rhode Island -- H. Victor Newcomb House , Elberon, NJ 1880-81 William Price -- Kent House, Tuxedo Park, New York Joseph Silsbee, including chapel at Spring Green, Wisc. Influence of Japanese Architecture: Ho-o-Den Temple/House at the World’s Columbian Exhib. FLW -- James Charnley House, Chicago done with and for Adler & Sullivan 1891-92 -- Blossom House, Chicago -- Wright House, Oak Park, Illinois 1889-90 and many subequent alterations and additions (notably Studio block: 1889-98 -- William H. Winslow House, River Forest, Illinois 1893-94 -- A Home in a Prairie Town for Ladies’ Home Jounral. 1900 (published Feb. 1901) -- A Small House with “Lots of Room in It” for Ladies’ Home Journal 1900 (published June 1901) -- Project for Lexington Terrace, Apt. Houses 1901. -- Hillside Home School, Spring Green, Wisconsin 1901-03 -- Ward Willit’s House, Highland Park, Illinois -- Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York 1902-04 -- Larkin Company Administration Building, Buffalo 1902-06 (demolished 1950) -- Unity Temple, Oak Park, Illinois 1905-08 -- Frederick C. Robie House, Chicago 1908-10 -- Submission to Chicago City Club Competition 1913 .

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