The Chicago Auditorium Building
Adler and Sullivan’s Architecture and the City
9780226761343
The Chicago Auditorium Building
Adler and Sullivan’s Architecture and the City
Winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award from the Society of Architectural Historians
When the magnificent Auditorium Building opened on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue in December 1889, it marked Chicago’s emergence both as the leading city of the Midwest and as a metropolis of international stature. In this lavishly illustrated book, Joseph M. Siry explores not just the architectural history of the Auditorium Building but also the crucial role it played in Chicago’s social history. Covering the Auditorium from the early design stage to its opening, its later renovations, its links to culture and politics in Chicago, and its influence on later Adler and Sullivan works (including the Schiller Building and the Chicago Stock Exchange Building), this volume recounts the fascinating tale of a building that helped to define a city and an era.
When the magnificent Auditorium Building opened on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue in December 1889, it marked Chicago’s emergence both as the leading city of the Midwest and as a metropolis of international stature. In this lavishly illustrated book, Joseph M. Siry explores not just the architectural history of the Auditorium Building but also the crucial role it played in Chicago’s social history. Covering the Auditorium from the early design stage to its opening, its later renovations, its links to culture and politics in Chicago, and its influence on later Adler and Sullivan works (including the Schiller Building and the Chicago Stock Exchange Building), this volume recounts the fascinating tale of a building that helped to define a city and an era.
580 pages | 16 color plates, 200 halftones | 8 1/2 x 10 | © 2004
Chicago Architecture and Urbanism
Architecture: History of Architecture
Sociology: Urban and Rural Sociology
Reviews
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Ferdinand Peck, Chicago Politics, and Chicago Theaters to 1880
2. Theater Architecture and Social Conflict in Chicago, 1880-1886
3. Initiating and Designing the Auditorium Building
4. The Auditorium Theater
5. The Auditorium Hotel: Architecture and Urban Life
6. Adler and Sullivan’s Later Architecture in Chicago, 1890-1894
Epilogue: The Chicago Auditorium Building since 1890
Appendix: Chicago Loop Properties of Philip F.W. Peck and His Sons, 1849-1896
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Ferdinand Peck, Chicago Politics, and Chicago Theaters to 1880
2. Theater Architecture and Social Conflict in Chicago, 1880-1886
3. Initiating and Designing the Auditorium Building
4. The Auditorium Theater
5. The Auditorium Hotel: Architecture and Urban Life
6. Adler and Sullivan’s Later Architecture in Chicago, 1890-1894
Epilogue: The Chicago Auditorium Building since 1890
Appendix: Chicago Loop Properties of Philip F.W. Peck and His Sons, 1849-1896
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Awards
Society of Architectural Historians: Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award
Won
Choice Magazine: CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Awards
Won