April 12, 2024
CHICAGO AUDITORIUM BUILDING Huge Brand NEW HC Louis Sullivan Architecture
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The Chicago Auditorium Building: Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City by Joseph M. Siry, published by University of Chicago Press 2002 (First Edition) Fantastic, huge comprehensive volume on Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler's landmark Chicago Auditorium Building of 1889. Features beautiful historic and new photographs, original plans and drawings. "When the magnificent Auditorium Building opened on Chicago's Michigan Avenue in December 1889, American and European newspapers hailed the event as a defining moment for the city, the most important since the Great Fire of 1871. The Auditorium marked Chicago's emergence both as the leading city of the Midwest and as a metropolis of international stature.In this lavishly illustrated book, Joseph M. Siry explores not just the architectural history of the Auditorium Building, but also the crucial role it played in Chicago's social history. Housing a luxurious 400-room hotel, 136 offices and stores, and a theater that could seat 4,200, the Auditorium Building was one of the earliest multipurpose civic centers in the United States, and its many technical and aesthetic innovations launched Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan's national reputation as creators of highly innovative architecture for large public buildings. (Frank Lloyd Wright was employed by Adler and Sullivan at the time,
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