Trends In Chicago Architecture

Fire destroys things down into ache, but after that is a process of rebuilding and starting of new things. This was happening to the neighborhood of Wicker Park in 1871 , when the fire destroyed old wooden mansions of rich German and Scandinavian residents. The new era had occurred, when the immigrant labors rebuilt the neighborhood with brick and stone to prevent such a tragedy again. Since then, that area has filled with beautiful architecture and packed with history. This area was recognize by the city of Chicago to be one of the historical area, and people call it the “Wicker Park Historic District.”

Randy Gragg wrote “A High-Security, Low-Risk Investment: Private Prisons Make Crime Pay” Gragg is the architecture and urban design critic for the Oregonian, Portland’s daily newspaper. Gragg has written on wars, visual art, film and performance. Randy has shifted his journalistic focus to writing on the built environment. Beyond reviewing completed projects, he has worked to build a larger constituency for better design by frequently writing about buildings and planning efforts in their generative phases when citizens and officials can still affect them through the public review process. Since moving to the Northwest from Nevada, Randy has pursued numerous writing and curatorial projects in art and design.

The Museum Although the city of Chicago is usually associated with well-known historical events, such as the Chicago Fire for example, this wonderful city can also be attributed with hosting two unique and significant historical events—the World’s Fair of 1893 and the establishment of the original Field Museum in 1921. In addition to being held as an event to celebrate Christopher Columbus and the discovery of the “new world” in 1492, the Chicago World’s Fair—also commonly referred to as the World’s Columbian Exposition—was also an opportunity to celebrate art as a whole and to allow for inventors all around the globe to showcase their new devices and art. However, because the World’s Fair of 1983 was a one-time event and was, essentially,

The windows are composed of colored leaded glass arranged into shapes and patterns, which added a bonus level of security; this further obstructed the view from the outside while letting in enough natural light to illuminate the rooms (“Frederick C. Robie

While the building itself stands as an icon of modernism, the empty space in front of the building was also innovative. An open, urban plaza set the building back from Park Avenue and created a gracious pedestrian space. Often emulated, such plazas have become a cliché, but, at the time, Mies was as at the forefront of radical

With Chicago being such a diverse city, it’s naturally filled with neighborhoods brimming with culture and life. There are many factors that attribute to modern chicago’s distinctively unique neighborhoods, one obviously being the people that originally founded it. For example, Chicago’s Chinatown was established in the early 1900s by the floods of Chinese immigrants moving into chicago and creating businesses. Another huge influence on a neighborhood’s identity is its historical background. For Lincoln Park, the notorious St. Valentine’s Day Massacre made Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder’s building famous.

The Architectural Fantasy by Hubert Robert is an oil painting created in 1802. For an architectural painting, is displays much emotion through the use of color, line, and light. The painting does not utilize a multitude of colors but still is able to provide an exciting scene. Although it does not appear to be that large in the gallery, the work would actually be prominent if it were a standalone piece. The artist’s use of perspective, light, and color give the overall composition a balanced look.

What would you say the most important thing in Chicago’s history is? Some would say the telephone or the skyscraper, but these things as we know them wouldn’t even exist without the telegraph. The telegraph first came to Chicago in 1848, and from then on was a very important contribution to the history of Chicago. Without it, many buildings would have burned during the Great Chicago Fire as the mayor of Chicago asked for supplies from Milwaukee with the telegraph. Due to this important invention, many buildings were saved because of quick and easy communication.

Chicago World’s Fair: Two Sides of the Same Coin Chicago won the right to host the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, a monumental moment that would leave an impact on America. The mastermind architect behind it, Daniel Burnham, created an event so magnificent that it captured the essence of America itself and heightened its sense of purpose in the world at the time. The competitive atmosphere surrounding it was one of the major factors that influenced the exposition, leaving it as a legacy to be remembered by all who witnessed it. Advanced architectural achievements, increased patriotism, and prevalent racist attitudes were some effects of competition that molded the fair to be both a representation of American values and core beliefs

Frank Lloyd Wright is commemorated as the America’s most honored architect. He was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin on June 8th, 1867 and he died on April 9th, 1959. Shortly after finishing his college studies, he turned to be the chief assistant of Louis Sullivan, also known as the “father of skyscrapers”. Later on, he decided to establish his own business and developed an “organic architecture” approach called Prairie school. This lead to generate architectural designs mainly for commercial constructions and homes.

Chicago appealed to newcomers during the time of the fair, until they were greeted with “smoke… darkness… and the ever-present scent of rotting garbage” (264) that encased the entire town. The disgust of the city was masked by the fair, it fascinated all who knew of it. Even the structures in the city “awed [them]” (264) and made a huge contrast with Chicago itself. The stark differences between Chicago and it’s contents exemplify good and evil walking hand in hand throughout the time period of the World’s

The development of modern day architecture is very fascinating. Even though it has a very significant difference to architecture in the past, it still has many similarities. Many famous buildings we have today still show the same basic designs. For example, the Lincoln Memorial is very similar to the Parthenon.

In his career, Koolhaas produced several influential publications, one of which is the 1376 page volume S, M, L, XL in collaboration with graphic artist Bruce Mau and Jennifer Sigler. The book is comprised of a series of essays and manifestos; though their content is captivating enough, the graphic representation; with its use of fully bled images, mix of typefaces and font size is a feat in itself. True to an architect’s nature, all layout is meticulously planned – the book becomes a cinematic showcase through which Koolhaas takes his viewers on a journey that is comprised of his reflections on the city following Delirious New York. The plot of the narrative is provided by cataloguing his projects into four categories – categories which the

INTRODUCTION The idea of the American Modernist houses came from European architects (Spark 2008:186; Jordi 1963:177-187) that developed European theories of Modernism in the United States. Therefore architects like Philip Johnson, played a major role in introducing the works of Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius or Le Corbusier into the American society and architecture (Goldberger 2005). This Modernist built structures were characterized by the “open-planning and transparency and commitment to the spatial continuity between the outsides and the insides of the building” (Spark 2008:141). In addition, Modernist architects embraced the idea of the standardization of objects by means of mass production, that would produce exact replicas of items.

Epoka University Faculty of Architecture and Engineering Department of Architecture ARCH IV ARCH418 PhD. Ernest Shtepani Shasivar Rada ID:02021120 Delirious New York Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan Rem Koolhaas Our role is not to retreat back to the catacombs, but to became more human in skyscraper Manhattan is the theatre for the terminal stage of western civilization... A mountain range of evidence without manifesto.