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    CHICAGO STYLE ARCHITECTURE

    How it became the nations architectural image

    THE GREAT CITY OF CHICAGO Before 1871

    Its architecture strongly resembled the European Style. There wasnt really a American Style of architecture.

    THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE OCTOBER 8-10 1871

    Destroying 18,000 buildings , killing nearly 300 people, and leaving 100,000 homeless.

    DAMAGE

    The "Burnt District," nearly four miles long and almost a mile wide, included most of the central business district and many residential areas

    CHICAGO RISES FROM THE ASHES

    Reconstruction began almost instantly after the fire. Giving the city a chance to start again. Between 1872 and 1879 more than ten thousand construction permits were issued. With reconstruction came the need for architects, and many responded.

    CHICAGO SCHOOL

    1875-1910 response to . the Chicago fire.


    The school focused on mainly commercial buildings

    Used modern technology to replace load-bearing walls with steal frame construction
    Also known for the modern skyscraper, as well as the Chicago window

    Concepts regarding light and space, as well as emphasis on height . Form Follows Function

    THE CHICAGO SCHOOL ARCHITECTS

    William Le Baron Jenney Louis Sullivan Dankmar Adler Frank Lloyd Wright John Wellborn Root Daniel Hudson Burnham

    NEW TECHNOLOGY

    Steal Frame

    Large plate glass

    Terracotta

    Tube System

    Elevators

    CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE

    Italianatealso very ornamental in design; notice arched doors and windows

    Romanesque designa style involving massive walls and arched doors and windows,

    Art Decomarked by unbroken vertical lines and other geometric features, popular in the 1930s

    Beaux-Artsa highly decorative style that copied the classical architecture of the Greeks and Romans

    ESSENTIAL QUESTION

    How does this Radical Architecture break away from European traditions and create a Modern Style that is uniquely American?

    GUIDING QUESTIONS

    Throughout the presentation ask yourself why architecture is more than just buildings? THINK DEEP
    Try to witness how every part of a building serves its overall purpose, and how the buildings truly represent the architects that created them? How would changing the architecture of a city also change the society in the process?

    LOUIS SULLIVAN

    Showed nature through architecture

    The father of the skyscraper

    Form Follows Function

    ORNAMENTATION

    ADLER AND SULLIVAN BUILDINGS

    Auditorium Building (188 1890)

    Jewelers building 1881

    Carson, Pirie, Scott and Co 1898

    James Charnley House 1892

    original

    FRANK LLOYD

    UNIQUE

    Overall Emotion

    Prairie Style
    Purpose Details

    PRAIRIE STYLE

    Usonian homes Natural cooling and natural light windows

    Strong visual connection between the outside and the inside.

    Flat roofs, solar heating, and floor heating

    INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

    Stripped away all exterior ornamentation.

    More window then wall

    Originated in Germany in 1930s. In Chicago it went from the 1940s-1970s


    Known also as the Second Chicago School Concept: Less is moreLudwig Mies van der Rohe

    INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ARCHITECTS

    Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Illinois Institute of technology) Fazlur Klan (engineer, System of framed tubes)

    SYSTEM OF FRAMED TUBES

    John Hancock Prairie Style 1969

    DeWitt Chestnut Apartment Building 1963

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