The group of architects, Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, William Le Baron Jenney and Dankmar Adler among them, who rebuilt Chicago's commercial core after the fire of 1871 and, working with the new metal frame and the safety elevator, developed the tall commercial building's basic modern grammar: an expressed structural grid, large plate-glass Chicago windows, and Sullivan's tripartite base, shaft and capital composition. The Home Insurance Building of 1885 is usually credited as its first complete statement, though earlier partial iron-framed buildings complicate any claim to a single, undisputed first skyscraper.
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PeriodThe World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 turned prevailing American taste back toward classicism, commonly cited as the school's decline. Origin Region Connections
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The organization's 1966 founding name and mission tie it directly to the Chicago School architectural tradition it was created to document and preserve.
Source Chicago Architecture Center (Wikipedia)
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Source Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of ArchitectureBanister Fletcher, edited by Dan Cruickshank (20th edition)
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Jenney is regarded as a founder of the Chicago School
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Source Hallidie Building, Wikipedia
Widely credited as the building that began the Chicago school of structural-steel-frame practice.
Source Home Insurance Building (Wikipedia)
Source Louis Sullivan (Wikipedia)
Source Palmer House Hilton, Wikipedia
Source Reliance Building (Wikipedia)
A defining early example of the Chicago School of skyscraper design.
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Source Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of ArchitectureBanister Fletcher, edited by Dan Cruickshank (20th edition)
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1. Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture
Banister Fletcher, edited by Dan Cruickshank (20th edition), Architectural Press, 1996
Chicago Architecture Center (Wikipedia)
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The CAC was founded in 1966 as the Chicago School of Architecture Foundation to save H. H. Richardson's Glessner House, one of Chicago's oldest residences.
Home Insurance Building (Wikipedia)
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the Chicago school of architecture had already begun.
Reliance Building (Wikipedia)
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Chicago School
Prudential (Guaranty) Building, Wikipedia
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Chicago school
Hallidie Building, Wikipedia
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Category:Chicago school architecture in California
Palmer House Hilton, Wikipedia
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Category:Chicago school architecture in Illinois
Wikipedia: Flatiron Building
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Unlike New York's early skyscrapers, which took the form of towers arising from a lower, blockier mass, such as the contemporary Singer Building (completed in 1908), the Flatiron Building was designed in the style of the Chicago school.
Chicago Board of Trade Building, Wikipedia
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At 1211 North LaSalle Street on the city's Near North Side, a 16-story apartment hotel built in 1929 and converted into an apartment building in 1981 was used by muralist Richard Haas for trompe-l'œil murals in homage to Chicago School architecture.
Louis Sullivan (Wikipedia)
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He was an influential architect of the Chicago School, a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School.
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