Chicago school of architecture

Chicago architecture
Important in the history of architecture. Birth place of skyscrapers Birth place of american architecture Great chicago fire destroyed the city Opportunity to design buildings Natural boundaries also restricted horizontal expansion Answer- skyscrapers

First sky scraper

Home insurance building by William Le Baron Jenney in 1885 Building has steel structures making it go taller Although has masonry structure it has features of modern skyscrapers

Making of a new world

Jenny trained an important group of architects including Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, William Holabird, Martin Roche, John Root Work of these architects-chicago school of architecture It was a style of architecture A break away from east coast architects Important modern architects Frank Lloyd Wright , Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

School or style
Style developed due to tecnological advancement Use of steel structures made design light Than thick masonry walls. Large openings possible More airy design Many buildings used such chicago school windows So called birth place of modern architecture

Auditorium Building by Louis H Sullivan

civic auditorium bearing masonry complex multiple-use building. Interior details equivalents to European Art Nouveau architecture."

Monadnock Building by Burnham and Root

early skyscraper, commercial office tower bearing masonry 16 stories a massive brick pile with a slightly curved base and outward curving cavetto cornice at the top structurally traditional, employing cast iron and wrought iron framing only for window spandrels and the internal frame