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The Chicago Architectural Club
Looks at the history of the Chicago Architectural Club and its role in shaping architectural education and practice.
Positions in Architecture
This latest in a series of occasional volumes from the Chicago Architectural Club focuses on personal architectural agendas and their translation into built form: each member describes a position vital to his or her work, illustrating it with built and unbuilt examples, while additional essays by Stuart Cohen, Kevin Harrington, and others describe the inner workings behind the careers of historical figures such as Louis Sullivan, Bertrand Goldberg, and Harry Weese. This richly illustrated book provides a personal view into Chicago's current architectural scene, casting it in light of its illustrious history and forecasting its vibrant future.
Wright on Exhibit
The first history of Frank Lloyd Wright's exhibitions of his own work—a practice central to his career More than one hundred exhibitions of Frank Lloyd Wright's work were mounted between 1894 and his death in 1959. Wright organized the majority of these exhibitions himself and viewed them as crucial to his self-presentation as his extensive writings. He used them to promote his designs, appeal to new viewers, and persuade his detractors. Wright on Exhibit presents the first history of this neglected aspect of the architect’s influential career. Drawing extensively from Wright’s unpublished correspondence, Kathryn Smith challenges the preconceived notion of Wright as a self-promoter who...
