| ARCH 355 architectural
history iv concepts and forms in north american architecture, 1922-2008 |
| Exhibiting Modernity: The Chicago Tribune, 1922, and the American skyscraper |
| I. The North American Landscape, 1920s-40s: The historical and the avant-garde: |
| i. (Indigenous) American modernism: Cram, Goodhue, A. Kahn |
| Ralph Adams Cram, Bertram Goodhue, & Ferguson, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, NYC, 1908-14 |
| Ralph Adams Cram, Cathedral Church of the New Jerusalem, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, 1913-1917 |
| McKim, Mead & White, Pennsylvania Station, NYC, 1910 (now demolished) |
| Bertram Goodhue, Panama-California Exposition, San Diego, 1915 |
| Bertram Goodhue, Chicago Tribune submission, 1922 |
| Bertram Goodhue, L.A. County Public Library, 1921-26 |
| Bertram Goodhue, Nebraska State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1919-1920 |
| Albert Kahn in his office, Detroit, 1940 |
| Albert Kahn, Ford plant, Highland Park, Michigan, 1910 |
| Kahn, Ford Motor Company, Engineering Laboratory, Dearborn, Michigan, 1925 |
| Albert Kahn, Dodge Truck Plant, Detroit, 1937 |
| Kahn, Boiler House, for Chrysler Corporation, Dodge Division, Half-Ton Truck Plant, Warren, Michigan, 1937 |
| ii. Continuity or change: Skyscrapers and the Chicago Tribune Competition, 1922 |
| Hugh Ferriss, The
Metropolis of Tomorrow, 1929 Part 2: Projected Trends. The Lure of the CityÉ |
Hugh Ferriss, The Metropolis of Tomorrow, 1929 Overhead traffic-ways; Pedestrians over wheel-traffic |
Hugh Ferriss, The Metropolis of Tomorrow, 1929 Apartments on bridges |
| Daniel Burnham, The Reliance Building, Chicago, 1895 |
| Adler and Sullivan, Guaranty (Prudential) Building, Buffalo, N.Y., 1896 |
| Slide 24 |
| First home of the Chicago Tribune in 1847 (Lake and LaSalle Streets); then in 1869 to this 4-storey structure at Dearborn and Madison Streets until 1901 |
| La Libre Belgique |
| Each architect who applied for entrance to the competition was supplied with a program, a photo of the site form the southwest, and a blueprint layout of the site |
| Each architect who applied for entrance to the competition was supplied with a program, a photo of the site form the southwest, and a blueprint layout of the site |
| Aerial view of the Tribune Plant and vicinity. Wrigley Building in left foreground |
| Chicago Tribune Tower Competition entries, 1922 |
| Eliel Saarinen |
| Eliel Saarinen, Chicago Tribune Tower competition |
| Bertram G. Goodhue |
| Mathew L. Freeman, Mississippi Agricultural & Mechanical College |
| John M. Lyle, Toronto |
| Hugh G. Jones, Montreal, Honorable mention |
| Adolph Loos, from Nice, France |
| Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer, Weimar, Germany |
| Max Taut, Berlin |
| Bruno Taut, Magdeburg, Germany |
| B. Bijvoet, J. Duiker, Zandvoort, Holland |
| Anonymous |
| Einar Sjostrom and Jarl Eklund, Finland |
| Barry Hammond Dierks, from Paris, France |
| Knud Lšnberg-Holm (Danish), Chicago Tribune Tower competition |
| Holabird & Roche, Michigan Avenue Elevation |
| Howells and Hood Elevations and plan |
| Howells and Hood plaster model |
| Winning entry by Howells and Hood, Chicago Tribune Tower, 1922-25, based on a late Gothic tower, the Tower of Butter of the Cathedral of Rouen, of 1485 |
| John Mead Howells (left) and Raymond M. Hood |
| Tribune exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago |
| The Tribune exhibition |
| From the editorial page of The Tribune stated, on 3 December, 1922 |
| Howells and HoodÕs description of their winning design |
| Industrial designer Raymond
LoewyÕs GG-1 and S-1 electric locomotive, 1935, for the Pennsylvania
railroad: Making a machine look purposeful and powerful with a streamline style evoking speed |
| Fellheimer & Wagner, Cincinnati Union Terminal, Ohio, 1933 |
| Henry Hohauser, Colony Hotel, Miami Beach, 1935 |
| Worcester Lunch Car and Carriage Manufacturing Company and view of factory, c.1905 |
| Silk City Diners and Jerry OÕMahony all-stainless steel diners |
| iii. Art Deco Skyscraper |
| Raymond Hood with Godley and Fouilhoux, American Radiator Building, NYC, 1924 (view from Bryant Park) |
| Raymond Hood with John Mead Howells and Fouilhoux, Daily News Building, New York, 1929 |
| Raymond Hood with John Mead Howells and AndrŽ Fouilhoux, Daily News Building, Lobby drawing by Hugh Ferriss (on left) |
| Raymond Hood, Daily News Building, Perspective by Hugh Ferriss |
| Raymond Hood, Daily News Building, View looking east |
| Raymond Hood and Fouilhoux, McGraw-Hill Building, NYC, 1931 (View looking west) |
| Raymond Hood, McGraw-Hill Building top + Front entrance on 42nd Street + executive reception area |
| Raymond Hood and Fouilhoux, McGraw-Hill Building, NYC, 1931 |
| Raymond Hood, Electric Pavilion (tinted photograph), Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago, 1933 |
| Ralph Adams Cram and
Raymond Hood, Bermuda, 1934 HoodÕs first employer, and artistic opposite |
| William Van Alen, Chrysler Building, New York, 1928-30 |
| William Van Alen, Chrysler Building, New York, 1928-30 |
| William Van Alen, Chrysler Building, New York, 1928-30 |
| William Van Alen, Chrysler Building, New York, 1928-30 |
| Chrysler Building |
| Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, Empire State Building, NYC, 1929-31 |
| Reinhard & Hofmeister, with Corbett and Hood, Rockefeller Center, NYC, 1931-40 |
| Reinhard & Hofmeister, with Corbett and Hood, Rockefeller Center, NYC, 1931-40 |
| Reinhard & Hofmeister, with Corbett and Hood, Rockefeller Center, NYC, 1931-40 |
| Rockefeller Center, New
York City, 1930 (Reinhard & Hofmeister; Raymond M. Hood, Godley and Fouilhoux; Corbett and Harrison) View of RCA Building through the Channel Gardens |
| Howe and Lescaze, Philadelphia Saving Fund Society (PSFS), 1929-32 |
| Howe and Lescaze, Philadelphia Saving Fund Society (PSFS), 1929-32 |