Architecture In Chicago Research Articles

A Journey to the Experimental Nation: Henry Demarest Lloyd and the Search for Industrial Democracy in New Zealand

ABSTRACT In 1899 the American journalist Henry Demarest Lloyd was one of many social reformers who travelled to New Zealand to witness the social programmes instituted by the Liberal government. For Lloyd and other Progressives, New Zealand represented a model industrial democracy. His book Newest England (1900) describes Public Works Department projects built under the direction of the Department’s Minister, Richard Seddon, including the Makōhine Railway Viaduct. This viaduct was significant as the first steel structure built using the cooperative labour system. This paper places Lloyd’s interpretation of the Makōhine Viaduct within the Progressive discourse about design and labour taking place in Chicago around 1900, focusing on the activities of the Chicago Arts and Crafts Society of which Lloyd was a member. Attention to Lloyd’s Newest England reveals a radical plan for the future of industrial society, one that prefigured the technocracy movement of the early twentieth century. In its dedication to the aims of settler colonialism, it also reveals the theme of racial evolution underpinning Progressive visions of the coming industrial democracy. Exploring that theme, the paper expands scholarship on the origins of modern American architecture in Chicago to include the historical context of colonisation and global immigration.

Review: Henry Ives Cobb’s Chicago: Architecture, Institutions, and the Making of a Modern Metropolis, by Edward W. Wolner

Edward W. Wolner Henry Ives Cobb’s Chicago: Architecture, Institutions, and the Making of a Modern Metropolis Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011, x + 384 pp., 139 b/w illus. $45, ISBN 9780226905617 Henry Ives Cobb (1859–1931) was well-born and well-educated in Boston. Following European travel and his employment at the well-regarded Boston architecture firm of Peabody and Stearns, Cobb seemed set for a promising career in his hometown. Yet, instead Cobb moved to Chicago, where he developed an extensive practice and a large office. This period was followed by a move to Washington, D.C., and a diminished practice, and a final move to New York, with even less work. This reversal of the usual pattern of career development from modest beginnings to final successes plays a role in Cobb’s diminished place in the history of American architecture. However, Cobb suffers from two additional disadvantages. First, in 1896, when Montgomery Schuyler published the monograph A Critique of the Work of Adler & Sullivan, D. H. Burnham & Co., Henry Ives Cobb , drawn from his Great American Architects series in Architectural Record , Cobb suffered from Schuyler’s assessment that Cobb’s work, while fine, was not characteristic of the distinctive commercial and suburban work of Chicago. This drift into critical irrelevance was reinforced by the emergence of a canonical Chicago School. Second, compounding our ignorance of the architect whose career began in prominence and distinction but ended in obscurity, Cobb’s archive is lost. Cobb’s reputation only began to be reversed after 1976, when the exhibition and publication Chicago Architects , edited by Stuart Cohen, appeared as an explicit rejoinder to Chicago’s official bicentennial publication, 100 Years of Architecture in Chicago , edited by Oswald Grube and others. More importantly for Cobb’s status is the recent book Henry Ives Cobb’s Chicago, in which the author, Edward W. Wolner, …

Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913

Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913

Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913. Gwendolyn Wright

<i>Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913</i>. Gwendolyn Wright

Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago 1873-1913. By Gwendolyn Wright (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. viii + 382 pp. $17.50)

Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago 1873-1913. By Gwendolyn Wright (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. viii + 382 pp. $17.50)

Review: The Palace or the Poorhouse: The American House as a Cultural Symbol by Jan Cohn; The American House by Mary Mix Foley, Madelaine Thatcher; The American Home: Architecture and Society, 1815-1915 by David P. Handlin; Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913 by Gwendolyn Wright

Review: The Palace or the Poorhouse: The American House as a Cultural Symbol by Jan Cohn; The American House by Mary Mix Foley, Madelaine Thatcher; The American Home: Architecture and Society, 1815-1915 by David P. Handlin; Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913 by Gwendolyn Wright

Wright, Gwendolyn. Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago 1873-1913

Wright, Gwendolyn. <i>Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago 1873-1913</i>

Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913, by Gwendolyn Wright

<i>Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913</i>, by Gwendolyn Wright

Gwendolyn Wright. &lt;italic&gt;Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873–1913&lt;/italic&gt;. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1980. Pp. viii, 382. $17.50

Journal Article Gwendolyn Wright. Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873–1913. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1980. Pp. viii, 382. $17.50 Get access Wright Gwendolyn. Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873–1913. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1980. Pp. viii, 382. $17.50. Jan Cohn Jan Cohn George Mason University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 86, Issue 3, June 1981, Pages 655–656, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/86.3.655-a Published: 01 June 1981

Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913

Journal Article Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873–1913. By Gwendolyn Wright. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. viii + 382 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $17.50.) Get access Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz Scripps College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 1, June 1981, Pages 144–145, https://doi.org/10.2307/1890955 Published: 01 June 1981

Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913

Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913

Review: Lost Chicago by David Lowe; Old Chicago Houses by John Drury; Architecture in Old Chicago by Thomas Eddy Tallmadge

Review: Lost Chicago by David Lowe; Old Chicago Houses by John Drury; Architecture in Old Chicago by Thomas Eddy Tallmadge

Culture and Democracy: The Struggle for Form in Society and Architecture in Chicago and the Middle West during the Life and Times of Louis H. Sullivan

Culture and Democracy: The Struggle for Form in Society and Architecture in Chicago and the Middle West during the Life and Times of Louis H. Sullivan

Culture and Democracy. The Struggle for Form in Society and Architecture in Chicago and the Middle West during the Life and Times of Louis H. Sullivan

Culture and Democracy. The Struggle for Form in Society and Architecture in Chicago and the Middle West during the Life and Times of Louis H. Sullivan

Culture and Democracy: The Struggle for Form in Society and Architecture in Chicago and the Middle West During the Life and Times of Louis H. Sullivan. By &lt;italic&gt;Hugh Dalziel Duncan&lt;/italic&gt;. ([Totowa, N. J.:] Bedminster Press. 1965. Pp. xxii, 616. $12.50.)

Journal Article Culture and Democracy: The Struggle for Form in Society and Architecture in Chicago and the Middle West During the Life and Times of Louis H. Sullivan. By Hugh Dalziel Duncan. ([Totowa, N. J.:] Bedminster Press. 1965. Pp. xxii, 616. $12.50.) Get access Culture and Democracy: The Struggle for Form in Society and Architecture in Chicago and the Middle West During the Life and Times of Louis H. Sullivan. By Duncan Hugh Dalziel. ([Totowa, N. J.:] Bedminster Press. 1965. Pp. xxii, 616. $12.50.) William H. Jordy William H. Jordy Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 72, Issue 1, October 1966, Pages 320–321, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/72.1.320 Published: 01 October 1966

Culture and Democracy: The Struggle for Form in Society and Architecture in Chicago and the Middle West During the Life and Times of Louis H. Sullivan

This work by the late and great sociologist Hugh Dalziel Duncan, paints the great panorama of the Middle West, where egalitarianism is the most cherished value, and money is the most important vehicle of life. How art finds a place this society is shown the specific struggle between the architects, businessmen, unionists, and educators of Chicago. Into such specifics Duncan reveals the place of supposedly abstract theories developed by John Dewey, George Herbert Mead, Thorstein Veblen, and above all, Louis H. Sullivan, whose school of architecture presents both a new form of physical design and a new order of society. rise, seeming defeat, and final triumph of Sullivan's principles of order architecture are related to his social and aesthetic theories of form society. In democratic society, all individuals must be capable of art, just as all individuals share art as experience. Sullivan's description of the development within the individual of the idea of architecture is treated as an allegory of such development the spirit of democratic values. His life is offered as a parable of the problem facing American artists as they attempt to root art democratic culture. In Sullivan's words: The critical of architecture becomes not merely the direct of art, but in extenso, a study of the social conditions producing it. of a newly shaping type of civilization. By this light, the of architecture becomes naturally and logically a branch of social science. . Duncan's exceptional volume, written with grace and clarity, registers the achievements of this Chicago School, showing how culture and democracy reached a special moment of consensus with the money-based economy of our time.

Culture and Democracy: The Struggle for Form in Society and Architecture in Chicago and the Middle West during the Life and Times of Louis H. Sullivan

Journal Article Culture and Democracy: The Struggle for Form in Society and Architecture in Chicago and the Middle West during the Life and Times of Louis H. Sullivan. By Hugh Dalziel Duncan. (Totowa, N.J.: Bedminster Press, 1965. xxii + 616 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $12.50.) Get access Carl W. Condit Carl W. Condit Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 53, Issue 2, September 1966, Pages 379–380, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894228 Published: 01 September 1966

HUGH DALZIEL DUNCAN. Culture and Democracy: The Struggle for Form in Society and Architecture in Chicago and the Middle West during the Life and Times of Louis H. Sullivan. Pp. xxii, 616, Totowa, N J.: Bedminster Press, 1965. $12.50

HUGH DALZIEL DUNCAN. Culture and Democracy: The Struggle for Form in Society and Architecture in Chicago and the Middle West during the Life and Times of Louis H. Sullivan. Pp. xxii, 616, Totowa, N J.: Bedminster Press, 1965. $12.50

Architecture in Old Chicago

Architecture in Old Chicago

Thomas E. Tallmadge,Architecture in Old Chicago

Thomas E. Tallmadge,<i>Architecture in Old Chicago</i>