Chicago School

1. Chicago, 1871 Chicago and the Chicago School of Architecture

3. US c. 1860 Why did Chicago grow so quickly? 1830s-1850s Erie Canal 1850s-1950s Railroads (20 th century Airports)

4. Chicago Fire 1871

5. Chicago, 1892

6. Chicago

7. Home Insurance Building, Chicago, 1883-85 (William Le Baron Jenney)

8. ROOKERY The Rookery Chicago Burnham & Root 1885

9. Rookery

10. Rookery, plan

11. Rookery, interior

12. Rookery, light court

13. AUDITORIUM BUILDING, Sullivan and Adler 1887-89 Auditorium Building, Sullivan & Adler, 1887

14. Auditorium Building

15. Auditorium Building

16. Auditorium Building, plan

17. Auditorium Building, section

19. Auditorium Building, interior stage

20. RELIANCE BUILDING (1891) Burnham and Root Reliance Building Burnham & Root 1891

21. Reliance, under construction

22. Reliance, curtain wall constructional diagram

23. Reliance, plan

24. Land Title Building Daniel Burnham 1897 Philadelphia - Burnham also did the one to the South in 1903 (Land Title Building) (Philadelphia) Daniel Burnham (1897)

25. “ If a building is properly designed, one should be able…to read through that building to the reason for the building….” “Instead of forcing the functions of every sort of building into one general form...let us begin from the heart as a nucleus and work out.” – Sullivan

26. “ Form follows function.” – Sullivan

27. CARSON, PIRIE, SCOTT (1899) Sullivan Carson Pirie Scott Department Store, Louis Sullivan 1899

29. Carson, plan

30. Carson

31. Carson

32. Carson

33. Carson

34. (Wanamaker Building 1902 Daniel Burnham)

35. Wanamaker

36. The Bourse, 1893 G W Hewitt

37. Reading Train Terminal facade, 1891