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Katherine Solomonson

The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition

Skyscraper Design and Cultural Change in the 1920s

384 pages, 187 halftones  7 x 10  © 2001

Paper $29.00

ISBN: 9780226768007   Published November 2003

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Planning the Competition
2. "Class Appeal" for the Masses: Imagining Community
3. Conducting the Competition, Shaping an International Agenda
4. Design for Advertising
5. The Gothic Skyscraper: "Ancient Beauty" versus "Ultra Modern"
6. City of Towers: Transforming the Skyscraper
7. Tribune Tower: Constructing a Corporate Icon
Postscript
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Awards
  • Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award
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