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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