A Critic's Guide to 100 Post-Modern Buildings in Chicago from 1978 to
2025
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Some architects regard a visit to Chicago as equal in importance to a
pilgrimage to Rome or Athens: The soaring American metropolis at the
shores of Lake Michigan has amassed an unmatched collection of
first-rate buildings in every possible style since late
nineteenth-century industrialization.
This book looks at Chicago through the prism of Post-Modernism -- under
the premise that this style did not cease to exist sometime in the
1990s, but is, in fact, still with us today.
Starting with the 1978 Illinois Regional Library for the Blind and
Physically Handicapped, curator and critic Vladimir Belogolovsky
presents 100 structures, most of which were created after the turn of
the millennium. These lavishly illustrated building descriptions are
supplemented by introductory essays and interviews with Chicago
architects, including Stanley Tigerman, Helmut Jahn and
Jeanne Gang.