*Please note: owing to Dr. Amundson's sabbatical in 2014-15, course pages are neither fully furnished nor fully operational.
01. Introduction to the Big Onion/”Ambition Overcomes Nature”
- Pacyga, Chicago/A Biography: chapters 1 & 2
- Gelernter, American Architecture: chapter 5 (note: the Gelernter book is offered as a good source if you need to review general currents in American architectural history)
02. Chicago before the fire (1673-1871)
- Pacyga, Chicago/A Biography: chapter 3
03. Fire & Reconstruction (1871-1880s)
- Pacyga, Chicago/A Biography: chapter 4
- Gelernter, American Architecture: chapter 6
- “The Poetics of Ruin,” (pp. 63-105) in Miller, The Great Chicago Fire
- What if the Great Fire never happened?
04. Post-Fire Triumvirate (plus two) (1871-93)
05. Skyscrapers (1885-1905)
- Pacyga, Chicago/A Biography: chapter 5
- Gelernter, American Architecture: chapter 7
- Colquhoun, Modern Architecture: chapter 2
- Sullivan, “Oasis” (pp. 28-33) & “Department Store” (pp. 40-42) & “Tall Office Building Artistically Considered” in Kindergarten Chats
- Condit, The Rise of the Skyscraper, ch. 1 (pp. 1-10)
- Rec.: Bruegmann, “Myth,” (pp. 15-29) in Waldheim, Chicago Architecture
06. The White City (1892-1909)
- Lewis, Early Encounter w/Tomorrow: ch. 3 (46-75)
- Burnham and Bennett, Plan of Chicago (skim throughout)
07. Other “Chicago Schools” (1895-1925)
- Pacyga, Chicago: chs. 6 & 7
- Gelernter, American Architecture: chapter 8
- Thomas Tallmadge, “Chicago School,” Arch Record (April 1908)
- Sandburg, “Chicago” in Smokestacks (pp. 123-24) +bring photocopy
- Peisch, The Chicago School of Arch’re.: ch. 5 (skim)
- Greene, Howard Van Doren Shaw (pp. 12-19)
- Wright, “the Art and Craft of the Machine”
08. Spreading Out (1895-1925)
- Radford’s Bungalows (1908): preface; browse plans
- Solomonson, Tribune Tower Competition, ch. 5 (149-95)
09. North Side (1920-30)
- Pacyga, Chicago/A Biography: chapter 8
- ✓ “The Glass Home of Tomorrow,” Pop. Mechanics, June 1933 (817-819)
10. Roaring Twenties (1920-30)
- ✓ “South Side” (Pacyga) and “Great Migration” (Grossman) in Encyclopedia of Chicago
11. Ethnic Enclaves
- Pacyga, Chicago/A Biography: chapter 9
- Gelernter, American Architecture: chapter 9
- Colquhoun, Modern Architecture: chapter 11
- Mies’ educational plans (pp. 26-30) in Swenson, Arch’l Education at IIT
12. The City of Progress (1930s)
- ✓Schrenk, Century of Progress, intro (skim pp. 1-18)
- ✓ “What You’ll See at the World’s Fair,” Popular Mechanics, May 1933 (689-704)
13. Depression: Outlet & Opportunities (1930s-40s)
- ✓ Gropius, Rebuilding Our Communities (30 pp)
- ✓ Wright, from Democracy (pp. 36-43)
- ✓ Hillman, Tomorrow’s Chicago, ch. 13 (pp. 70-77) & ch. 14 (78-80)
14. Urban Decay & Urban Renewal (1940s-55)
- Pacyga, Chicago/A Biography: chapter 10
- Colquhoun, Modern Architecture: chapter 12
15. The Boss (1955-68)
- ✓ Royko, from Boss in Smokestacks (pp. 320-36)
- ✓ Hilberseimer, Contemporary Arch’re: int.(pp. 15-22), ch. 7 (pp. 90-103)
16. City on the Make (1950-71)
- Goodman, “Systematic Genius” (Netsch) in Waldheim (pp. 261-84)
17. Rise (1968-74)
- Pacyga, Chicago/A Biography: chapter 11
- Gelernter, American Architecture: chapter 10
- ✓ Kamin, Why Architecture Matters: Hancock & Sears (pp. 101-09)
- ✓ Grube et al., 100 Years of Architecture in Chicago (pp. 9-15)
18. Collapse (1968-80s)
19. The Chicago Seven (1970s-80s)
- ✓ Seven Chicago Architects: “A Critique” (2 pp.)
- ✓ Tigerman, Late Entries & “Dear Mies”
- Marc Smith, “Sandburg to Smith…,” in Smokestacks (pp. 453-56)
- The Chicago Tapes: intro (pp. 6-9), Jahn, Beeby, Gehry, & Graham
20. RMD FTW (1989-)
- Pacyga, Chicago: Conclusion
- ✓ Smith, “Diminishing High-Rise Public Hsg.” in Waldheim (292-300)
- ✓ Kamin, Koolhaas and Gehry (pp. 176-85)
- Bess, “In the Public Domain,” Inland Architecture (pp. 99-115)
