Chicago, 1871

Chicago and the Chicago School of Architecture

Chicago’s Population

1830 300 people (town founded in 1833)

1850 30,000 people

1870 300,000 people

1890 1 million people

The sixth largest city in the world.

US c. 1860Why did Chicago grow so quickly?

1830s-1850s Erie Canal

1850s-1950s Railroads

(20th century Airports)

Chicago Fire 1871

Chicago, 1892

Chicago

Home Insurance Building, Chicago, 1883-85 (William Le Baron Jenney)

ROOKERYThe Rookery

Chicago

Burnham & Root

1885

Rookery

Rookery, plan

Rookery, interior

Rookery, light court

AUDITORIUM BUILDING, Sullivan and Adler 1887-89

Auditorium Building, Sullivan & Adler, 1887

Auditorium Building

Auditorium Building

Auditorium Building, plan

Auditorium Building, section

Auditorium Building, interior

“Sulavanesque” ornament Auditorium

Building, interior stage

Auditorium Building, interior stage

RELIANCE BUILDING (1891) Burnham and Root

Reliance Building

Burnham & Root

1891

Reliance, under construction

Reliance, curtain wall constructional diagram

Reliance, plan

Land Title Building Daniel Burnham 1897 Philadelphia - Burnham also did the one to the South in 1903(Land Title

Building)

(Philadelphia)

Daniel Burnham

(1897)

“If a building is properly designed, one should be able…to read through that building to the reason for the building….”

“Instead of forcing the functions of every sort of building into one general form...let us begin from the heart as a nucleus and work out.”

– Sullivan

“Form follows function.”– Sullivan

CARSON, PIRIE, SCOTT (1899) SullivanCarson Pirie Scott Department Store,

Louis Sullivan

1899

Carson

1891 drawing

Carson, plan

Carson

Carson

Carson

Carson

(Wanamaker Building 1902 Daniel Burnham)

Wanamaker

The Bourse, 1893 G W Hewitt

Reading Train Terminal facade, 1891