Author: Illinois Historic Structures SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Inventory of Architecture Before W.W. II in Highland Park & Lake Forest, Lake County
Author: Illinois Historic Structures SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest
Author: Kim CoventryPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393730999
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
On Lake Michigan's North Shore, an extraordinary group of cosmopolitan and wealthy clients commissioned havens from the city's bustle during the Gilded Age.
Inventing the New American House
Author: Stuart CohenPublisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN: 158093420X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Howard Van Doren Shaw designed stately country houses in and around Chicago—from affluent Lake Forest, Illinois, and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, to Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, and Indiana—from 1894 to 1926, a period in American architecture that spanned the Gilded Age, the adoption of Beaux-Arts classicism as the ideal for civic architecture, the invention of the skyscraper, and the beginning of modernism. Born in 1869, he worked for the leading industrialists of that period, including Reuben H. Donnelley of printing fame, newspaper giant Joseph Medill Patterson, Edward Forster Swift, the meatpacking king, and Edward L. Ryerson of Ryerson Steel. A contemporary of Frank Lloyd Wright, Shaw explored many of the same ideas as the Prairie School Architects within the forms of traditional architecture. Though he was recognized as one of the leading country house architects of the early twentieth century, his name was largely forgotten after his death. Like many traditional architects practicing today, Shaw was skilled at adapting historic precedents to suit contemporary living, in particular the easy flow of interior space that became a design hallmark of the period for traditionalists and modernists alike. For the new and fashionable suburb of Lake Forest, Shaw created Market Square, the town center, which was lauded for its design as both a unique town green and the first American shopping center designed to accommodate automobiles. This timely reappraisal of Howard Van Doren Shaw’s work features many previously unpublished images from the Shaw Archive in the Burnham and Ryerson Library at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago History Museum, rare construction drawings, and new color photography as well as a catalogue of Shaw’s residential work. His legacy includes substantial houses in prosperous communities, many of which are still standing—including Ragdale, once Shaw’s own summer house in Lake Forest, now home to the prestigious artists’ community; the Becker Estate on Chicago’s North Shore; and The Hermann House overlooking Lake Michigan.
David Adler, Architect
Author: David AdlerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300097026
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A collection of photocopied articles published about the David Adler exhibition held at the Art Institute of Chicago, December 6, 2002 to May 18, 2003.
Walter Frazier
Author: Kim CoventryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Paradise Planned
Author: Robert A.M. SternPublisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN: 1580933262
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1073
Book Description
Paradise Planned is the definitive history of the development of the garden suburb, a phenomenon that originated in England in the late eighteenth century, was quickly adopted in the United State and northern Europe, and gradually proliferated throughout the world. These bucolic settings offered an ideal lifestyle typically outside the city but accessible by streetcar, train, and automobile. Today, the principles of the garden city movement are once again in play, as retrofitting the suburbs has become a central issue in planning. Strategies are emerging that reflect the goals of garden suburbs in creating metropolitan communities that embrace both the intensity of the city and the tranquility of nature. Paradise Planned is the comprehensive, encyclopedic record of this movement, a vital contribution to architectural and planning history and an essential recourse for guiding the repair of the American townscape.
The American Architect
Author: American Architect
Author: A History of Lake County, Illinois
Author: John J. HalseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Who's Who in the Midwest
Author: Marquis Who's WhoPublisher: Marquis Who's Who
ISBN: 9780837907284
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Profiles the most influential men and women from America's heartland Contains over 16,000 biographies of people working in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska. North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin in the United States, and from Manitoba and western Ontario in Canada.