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Chicago school of

architecture

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Chicago architecture

Important in the history of architecture. Birth place of skyscrapers

Birth place of american architecture

Great chicago fire destroyed the city

Opportunity to design buildings

Natural boundaries also restricted horizontalexpansion

Answer- skyscrapers

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First sky scraper

Home insurance building by William LeBaron Jenney in 1885

Building has steel structures making it go

taller

Although has masonry structure it has

features of modern skyscrapers

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Making of a new world

Jenny trained an important group of architectsincluding Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan,William Holabird, Martin Roche, John Root

Work of these architects-chicago school ofarchitecture

It was a style of architecture

A break away from east coast architects Important modern architects Frank Lloyd Wright ,Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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School or style

Style developed due to tecnological advancement Use of steel structures made design light

Than thick masonry walls.

Large openings possible More airy design

Many buildings used such chicago schoolwindows

So called birth place of modern architecture

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Auditorium Buildingby Louis H Sullivan

civic auditorium bearing masonry

complex multiple-use

building.

Interior details

equivalents to

European ArtNouveau architecture."

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Monadnock Buildingby Burnham and Root

early skyscraper, commercialoffice tower

bearing masonry

16 stories

a massive brick pile with a

slightly curved base andoutward curving cavetto corniceat the top

structurally traditional,employing cast iron andwrought iron framing only forwindow spandrels and theinternal frame

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