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EDWARD KEEGAN FOREWORD BY LYNN J. OSMOND CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE 1885 TO TODAY UNIVERSE Chicago ARCH ITECTURE foundation Contents 12 Foreword 50 Robie House by Lynn J Osmond Frank Lloyd Wright, 1909 14 Introduction 52 Wrigley Building Graham Anderson Probst & White, 18 Glessner House 1919-24 Henry Hobson Richardson, 1885-87 56 Tribune Tower 20 Auditorium Building Howells & Hood, 1923-25 Adler & Sullivan, 1887-89 58 Carl Street Studios 22 The Rookery also known as 151 West Burton Burnham & Root, 1888 Sol Kogen, Edgar Miller and others, 1927 24 Second Leiter Building 60 Chicago Board of Trade William Le Baron Jenney 1889-91 Holabird & Root, 1930 28 The Monadnock 62 Merchandise Mart Burnham & Root, 1891 Graham Anderson Probst & White, 1927-31 30 Marquette Building Holabird & Roche, 1893-95 64 University Building Keck & Keck, 1937 34 Reliance Building Burnham & Root, 1891-95 66 Myron Bachman House Bruce Goff, 1948 36 Chicago Cultural Center Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, 1891-97 70 860-880 North Lake Shore Drive Mies van der Rohe, 1949-51 42 Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Ludwig originally Schlesinger & Mayer Louis H Sullivan, 1899, 1902-03 74 Crown Hall Mies van der Rohe, 1956 46 Macy's State Street originally Marshall Field & Co. 80 30 West Monroe D H Burnham & Co, 1902, 1907 originally Inland Steel Building Skidmore Owings & Men ill, 1958 Windows & Doors 82 Marina City 146 Republic 1998 Bertrand Goldberg Associates, 1962-64 Booth Hansen Associates, 84 Richard J. Daley Center 154 Archer Courts originally Chicago Civic Center Landon Bone,2000 Chicago Civic Center Architects F & with Skidmore (C Murphy Associates, 162 Soldier Field Merrill and Loebl Schlossman & Owmgs & Holabird & Root, 1922-26 Bennett), 1965 Wood+Zapata, with Lohan Capnle Goettsch, 2000-03 renovation 88 John Hancock Center Skidmore & Merrill, 1965-69 Owmgs 168 McCormick Tribune Campus Center 94 McCormick Place OMA/Rem Koolhaas, 2003 C F Murphy & Associates, 1967-71 178 /ay Pritzker Pavilion 102 Federal Center Frank O Gehry & Associates, 2004 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1959-74 186 Contemporaine 106 Sears Tower Perkins+Will, 2004 Skidmore Owmgs & Merrill, 1968-74 194 Hyatt Center ! 10 Correctional Metropolitan Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, 2005 Facility Harry Weese & Associates, 1975 204 Gary Comer Youth Center John Ronan Architect, 2006 I 12 Steel 8c Glass House Krueck & Olsen, 1981 220 Index 222 Photography Credits 120 333 Wacker Drive Kohn Pedersen Fox, 1979-83 128 James R. Thompson Center originally State of Illinois Building Murphy/Jahn, 1979-85 132 Harold Washington Library Center Hammond Beeby Babka, 1991 140 Little Village Academy Ross Barney+Jankowski, 1996 144 Private Residence TadaoAndo, 1992-98 10.

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