American building: Materials and techniques from the first colonial settlements to the present (The Chicago history of American civilization)

CONDIT, Carl W.

University of Chicago Press

Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition.

American Building: Materials and Techniques from the Beginning of the Colonial Settlement to the Present (History of American Civilization)

Chicago

This thoroughly illustrated classic study traces the history of the world-famous Chicago school of architecture from its beginnings with the functional innovations of William Le Baron Jenney and others to their imaginative development by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. The Chicago School of Architecture places the Chicago school in its historical setting, showing it at once to be the culmination of an iron and concrete construction and the chief pioneer in the evolution of modern architecture. It also assesses the achievements of the school in terms of the economic, social, and cultural growth of Chicago at the turn of the century, and it shows the ultimate meaning of the Chicago work for contemporary architecture. "A major contribution [by] one of the world's master-historians of building technique."—Reyner Banham, Arts Magazine "A rich, organized record of the distinguished architecture with which Chicago lives and influences the world."—Ruth Moore, Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago School of Architecture: A History of Commercial and Public Building in the Chicago Area, 1875-1925

History

Americas

Chicago, 1910-29: Building, planning, and urban technology

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Chicago, 1930-70;: Building, planning, and urban technology

Chicago, 1910-1929: Building, Planning and Urban Technology

Univ of Chicago Pr

2 Volume Set in Hardcover,University of Chicago Press

The Port of New York. A History of the Rail and Terminal System from the Beginnings to Pennsylvania Station

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

A comprehensive history of New York's railroad demonstrates how the city was shaped by the urban transportation system

The Port of New York: A History of the Rail and Terminal System from the Grand Central Electrification to the Present (Port of New York, Volume 2)

Business & Money

This prizewinning book chronicles the history of New York`s first skyscrapers, challenging conventional wisdom that it was in Chicago, not New York, that the skyscraper was born. Drawing on rich contemporary sources to show how remarkable developments in commerce, land use, technology, design, and zoning law enabled architects and engineers to create the first tall buildings, the authors claim New York City was beyond doubt the birthplace of skyscraper form and construction techniques.

Rise of the New York Skyscraper: 1865-1913

Landau, Professor Sarah Bradford

Yale University Press

Landau, Sarah Bradford

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