The City of Big Shoulders. Modern Architecture – Post WW II.

The City of “Big Shoulders”

Modern Architecture – Post WW II

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

McCormick Place Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Federal Plazavan der Rohe & Calder

Do you see columns here?

• Federal Plaza

DLudwig Mies van

Der Rohe

Why do we use columns on buildings?

• City-County Building • Chicago Federal Reserve Bank

Bank of AmericaNOT the one you goin

Lake Shore Drive Apartment Building Architect: Mies van der Rohe 1948 - 1951

Farnsworth House“less is more”

Lake Point Tower

Architects: Schiopporeit & Heinrich

Graham, Anderson, Probst, & White 1969

InlandSteel Building

Architects: Skidmore, Owings& Merrill 1956 - 1957

John Hancock CenterArchitects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill 1969

Graham, Anderson, Probst, & White, 1972

Sears Tower (Willis Tower)

Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill 1974 - 1979

Richard M. Daley Center

Architects: C.F. Murphy & Assoc.

1963 - 1965

Do you see see columns?

Xerox Center

Architects:Helmut Jahn

1980

James R. Thompson Center

Architects: Helmut Jahn & Richard Murphy

1984

James R.

Thompson

Center

Street entrance intoatrium.

Do you see see columns?

Monument with Standing Beast by Jean Dubuffet - Chicago, Illinois

State of IL Bldg & EL stop at IIT

Hulmut Jahn

State of Illinois Building – James Thompson Center

Thompson Center

What is another name for this building?

What interests you about its design?

United Airlines Terminal

Achitect: Helmut Jahn 1985 - 1988

Chicago O’Hare Airport

Dirk Lohan

First National BankPlaza- Bank One

C.F. Murphy & Assoc.

Murphy/Jahn

Marina City Towers by Bertrand Goldberg

• The building of the Marina towers

John Burgee Architects with Philip Johnson.  190 South

LaSalle Street.  Chicago.  1987.

21st Century Architecture & “The Future”

Millennium Park

• Pritzker Band Shell by Frank Gehry• The “Bean” or Cloud Gate by Anish

Kapoor• The Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa • Lurie Gardens

The new Modern Wing at the Art Institute of

Chicago by Renzo Piano

Jeanne Gang Studio Gang 2006-2010

Block 37Perkins + Will

Trump International Hotel & Tower Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

2005-2009

Blue Cross and Blue Shield TowerLohan (Goettsch) Partners –phase 1 1997

phase 2010

North of Millennium ParkTwo Prudential Plaza- Aon Center- BC/BS - 340 0n the Park

The “Spire” by Santiago Calatrava