For the first time, the interiors of some of the Chicago areas greatest buildings, designed by celebrated architects, are brought together and featured in truly stunning original photographs. These Chicago-area homes, religious spaces, and commercial and public structures give visual meaning to Frank Lloyd Wrights belief that the space within becomes the reality of the building. Beginning with the Clarke House of 1836 and continuing to the present, every type and style of building is presented. Famous residences such as Wrights Robie House and Ludwig Mies van der Rohes Farnsworth House are here, but so are more modest (and not so modest) homes by Walter Burley Griffin, George Washington Maher, and Paul Schweikher. The ornate warmth of Adler & Sullivans Auditorium Building provides striking contrast to the modern, towering underground stacks of Helmut Jahns Mansueto Library. Commercial buildings by Daniel Burnham, John Wellborn Root, John Holabird, Martin Roche, and many more reaffirm Chicagos position as a great business center. These architects and their contemporaries have made the Chicago area a mecca for both architects and lovers of architecture from around the world. Patrick F. Cannons text discusses each buildings architecture, architect, and place in history. While many of these architectural masterpieces are open to the public, othersparticularly the private homescan be seen only here.
