Website: www.windycitystyle.weebly.com Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7bni68yFG8c#t=0 Detailed information on Chicago Architecture designed in an intuitive way. Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan were the major focuses and I even made a video on Frank Lloyd Wright. My website is www.uncoveringsuperman.com and www.Zodhi.com

1. CHICAGO STYLE ARCHITECTURE
How it became the nations architectural image

2. THE GREAT CITY OF CHICAGO
Before 1871
Its architecture strongly
resembled the “European
Style”. There wasn’t
really a “ American Style”
of architecture.

3. THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE
OCTOBER 8-10 1871
Destroying 18,000 buildings , killing
nearly 300 people, and leaving 100,000
homeless.

4. DAMAGE
The "Burnt
District," nearly
four miles long and
almost a mile wide,
included most of
the central business
district and many
residential areas

5. CHICAGO RISES FROM THE ASHES
Reconstruction began almost instantly after the fire. Giving the city a
chance to start again. Between 1872 and 1879 more than ten thousand
construction permits were issued. With reconstruction came the need
for architects, and many responded.

6. CHICAGO SCHOOL
1875-1910
response to the
.
Chicago fire.
The school focused
on mainly commercial
buildings
Used modern technology to
replace load-bearing walls with
steal frame construction
Also known for the modern skyscraper, as
well as the Chicago window
Concepts regarding light and space, as well as emphasis
on height . “ Form Follows Function”

7. THE CHICAGO SCHOOL
ARCHITECTS
William Le Baron Jenney
Louis Sullivan
Dankmar Adler
Frank Lloyd Wright
John Wellborn Root
Daniel Hudson Burnham

8. NEW TECHNOLOGY
Steal
Frame
Large
plate
glass
Tube
System
Terracotta
Elevators

9. CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE
Italianate—also
very ornamental in
design; notice
arched doors and
windows
Beaux-Arts—a
highly decorative
style that copied the
classical architecture
of the Greeks and
Romans
Romanesque
design—a style
involving massive
walls and arched
doors and
windows,
Art Deco—marked
by unbroken
vertical lines and
other geometric
features, popular in
the 1930s

10. ESSENTIAL QUESTION
How does this Radical Architecture break away
from European traditions and create a “Modern
Style” that is uniquely
American?

11. GUIDING QUESTIONS
Throughout the presentation ask yourself why architecture is more than
just buildings? THINK DEEP
Try to witness how every part of a building serves its overall purpose,
and how the buildings truly represent the architects that created them?
How would changing the architecture of a city also change the society
in the process?

12. LOUIS SULLIVAN
Showed
nature
through
architecture
The father
of the
skyscraper
Form
Follows
Function

13. ORNAMENTATION

14. ADLER AND SULLIVAN
BUILDINGS
Auditorium
Building (188
1890)
Jewelers building 1881
Carson, Pirie, Scott
and Co 1898
James Charnley
House 1892

15. FRANK LLOYD
original
UNIQUE
Overall
Emotion
Prairie Style
Purpose
Details

16. PRAIRIE STYLE
Usonian homes
Natural cooling and
natural light windows
Strong visual
connection between
the outside and the
inside.
Flat roofs, solar
heating, and floor
heating

17. INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
Stripped away all exterior
ornamentation.
More window then wall
Originated in
Germany in 1930s. In
Chicago it went from
the 1940s-1970s
Known also as the Second
Chicago School
Concept: Less is moreLudwig Mies van der Rohe

18. INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
ARCHITECTS
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
(Illinois Institute of technology)
Fazlur Klan
(engineer, System of framed tubes)

19. SYSTEM OF FRAMED TUBES
John Hancock Prairie
Style 1969
DeWitt Chestnut
Apartment Building 1963