Preface Stanley Tigerman Palace of Culture - Auditorium Building, Adler & Sullivan, 1889 Robert Bruegmann Self-Equilibrating Spectacle - Ferris Wheel, George W. G. Ferris, 1893 William F. Baker Introduction : Chicago as Idea Alexander Eisenschmidt and Jonathan Mekinda Upstream - Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Isham Randolph and the Sanitary District of Chicago, 1900 Sandy Isenstadt Accelerated Grid - Plan of Chicago , Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett, 1909 Winy Maas That '70's Show Penelope Dean The Portfolio as Architectural Material - Wasmuth Folio, Frank Lloyd Wright, 1910 Brett Steele Perverted Monument - Chicago Tribune Tower Project, Adolf Loos, 1922 Sam Jacob Alvin Boyarsky's Chicago-London Axis: An Architecture Critic in the City of Strangers Igor Marjanovic The Big Gizmo - Dymaxion House at Marshall Field's Department Store, Buckminster Fuller, 1929 Bart Lootsma Chicago Frame as Picture Frame - 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1951 Barry Bergdoll The Rational, International Occult: Konrad Wachsmann And the Experimental Digitization of Architecture John Harwood Automatic Urbanism - Circle Interchange, Illinois Department of Transportation, 1962 Alexander Eisenschmidt Stacked Suburbia - Marina City, Bertrand Goldberg, 1967 David J. Lewis Banham's Mieses Mark Linder American Aesthetic - John Hancock Center, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1970 Kazys Varnelis Titanic Rising - The Titanic , Stanley Tigerman, 1978 Aaron Betsky Megalopolis is Everywhere Albert Pope Folding Before Digital - Stranded Sears Tower, Greg Lynn, 1992 Mirko Zardini Thick Thin- IIT McCormick Tribune Campus Center, OMA, 2003 Sarah Whiting American Modern: The Chicago School and the International Style At New York's Museum of Modern Art Joanna Merwood-Salisbury Chicago Style - Hyde Park Art Center, Garofalo Architects, 2006 Ellen D. Grimes Absorbing Attention - Cloud Gate, Anish Kapoor, 2006 Sylvia Lavin Admiration and Apprehension of the American Metropolis: European Responses to the Plan of Chicago David H.
Haney A Tale of Two Pavilions - Burnham Centennial Pavilion, UN Studio, 2009 Mark Lee Neither Duck Nor Shed - Aqua Tower, Studio Gang Architects, 2010 Andres Lepik No Failure Too Great Alexander Eisenschmidt Waterworld - Free Water District, UrbanLab, 2011 John McMorrough Generative Atmosphere - Environmental Typologies, Weathers, 2013 Pedro Gadanho Acknowledgements Contributors Illustration Credits Index.