The Fieldston School
Modern Architecture
Andrew Meyers
Unit One: Inventing the Modern, 1843-1914
Days 17-18: Nature's Metropolis- Chicago and the Rise of the Skyscraper
Prologue: The "Bones" of Building
Abbé Laugier, Essai sur l'architecture , 1755
Oxford Univ. Museum, 1855 (Dean and Woodward)
Bauakademie, Berlin, 1831 (K.F. Schinkel)
Bibliotheque Ste-Genevieve and Crystal Palace
I
Nature's Metropolis and the Chicago Style
Chicago, Second City
the "Loop"
the grid
the "palazzo block:" Palazzo Farnese, Rome, 1534 (A. da Sangallo)
The Skyscaper- Definitions
the elevator, fireproofing, "Bogardus fronts," steel frame
William Le Baron Jenney (1832-1907)
Home Insurance building, 1883
Chicago Fire, 1871
The Chicago Grid; “Nature’s Metropolis”
Wall Types
"punched plane:" Marshall Field; Monadnock
"pier-and-spandrel:" Home Insurance, Wainwright
"skeletal wall:" Gage, McClurg, Carson Pirie Scott
II
Richardson and Sullivan: The Skyscraper Takes Shape
H. H. Richardson (1838-1886)
Ames Building, Boston, 1883
Marshall Field Warehouse, 1885
L. Sullivan (1856-1924)
Auditorium Building, Chicago, 1887
Wainwright Building, St. Louis, 1891
Guaranty Building, Buffalo, N.Y., 1894
Bayard Building, New York, 1897
Gage Group, 1898
Carson Pirie Scott Bldg., 1903
III
The 'Chicago School'
William Holabird (1854-1923), and Martin Roche (1855-1927)
Tacoma, 1887
Marquette, 1893
McClurg, 1900
Daniel Burnahm (1846-1912), and John Wellborn Root (1850-91)
Montauk, 1881
Monadnock, 1889
Reliance, 1894
Flatiron, New York, 1902
Burnham's Plan for Chicago
The Chicago Tribune Competition, 1922
entries from Gropius, Taut, Saarinen, Hood, etc.
Epilogue: Chicago, By Way of Dessau
Project: Glass Skyscraper, 1929 (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Project: Mile High Skyscraper for Chicago, 1956 (F.L. Wright)
Equitable Building, 1965 (Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill)
Hancock Tower, 1966 (SOM)