ARCH 355 architectural history iv

concepts and forms in north american architecture, 1922-2008
Exhibiting Modernity: The Chicago Tribune, 1922, and the American skyscraper





THEMES



I. The North American Landscape, 1920s-40s: The historical and the avant-garde

     i. (Indigenous) American modernism: Cram, Goodhue, A. Kahn

     ii. Continuity or change: Skyscrapers and the Chicago Tribune Competition, 1922

    iii. Art Deco skyscraper


II. European modernism in the 1920s and Ô30s: Mies, Gropius, Bauhaus



III. Pedagogy and publications: Mies @ IIT; Gropius @ Harvard



IV. ÒModern Architecture: International ExhibitionÓ, Museum of Modern Art, NYC, 1932
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