Modern Architecture

Art History 282/682

Week 2, Class 2

Louis Sullivan and the Chicago Skyscraper

Henri Labrouste, Bibliothèque Ste Geneviève, Paris, 1843-1850

Louis-Auguste Boileau, St-Eugène-Ste-Cécile, Paris, 1854-1855

Thomas Deane and Benjamin Woodward, Oxford Museum, Oxford, England, 1855-1860

John Ruskin

James Bogardus, Bogardus Foundry, New York City, 1848

James Bogardus, Harper Brothers Building, New York City, 1854

Joseph Paxton, Chatsworth Conservatory, Derbyshire, England, 1837-1840

Joseph Paxton, Crystal Palace, London, 1851

Henry Pettit and Joseph Wilson, Main Building, Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876

Ferdinand Dutert, architect, Victor Contamin, engineer, Galerie des Machines, Paris, 1889

George Gilbert Scott, architect, W. H. Barlow & R. M. Ordish, enginerr, Midland Hotel and St. Pancras Station, London, 1863-1876

Frank Furness and Joseph Wilson, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, 1881

Joseph Wilson of the Wilson Brothers Engineers, Broad Street Station train shed, 1893

Francis Kimball and Joseph Wilson, Reading Terminal, Philadelphia, 1891

H. H. Richardson, Marshall Field Wholesale Warehouse, Chicago, 1885-1887

Pont du Gard, Roman aqueduct, Nîmes, France, 1^st century CE

Michelozzo, Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence, Italy, 1446-1460

William Le Baron Jenney, First Leiter Building, Chicago, 1879

William Le Baron Jenney, Home Insurance Building, Chicago, 1884-1885

William Le Baron Jenney, Fair Store, Chicago, 1890-1891

Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler, Auditorium Building, Chicago, 1886-1889

Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy; the medieval palazzo publico type

Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root, Monadnock Building, Chicago, 1884-1891

Henry Fuller, The Cliff Dwellers, 1893

William Holabird and Martin Roche, Tacoma Building, Chicago, 1887-1888

Charles Atwood for Burnham & Root, Reliance Building, Chicago, 1890-1894

Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler, Wainwright Building, St. Louis, Missouri, 1890-1891

Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler, Guaranty Building, Buffalo, New York, 1894-1895

Louis Sullivan, "The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered," 1896

Louis Sullivan, "Ornament in Architecture," 1893

World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893

Richard Morris Hunt, Administration Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893