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Hardcover. Condizione: New. Chicago Architecture and Urbanism; When championing the commercial buildings and homes that made the Windy City famous, one canât help but mention the brilliant names of their architectsâ"Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others. But few people are aware of Henry Ives Cobb (1859â"1931), the man responsible for an extraordinarily rich chapter in the cityâs turn-of-the-century building boom, and fewer still realize Cobbâs lasting importance as a designer of the private and public institutions that continue to enrich Chicagoâs exceptional architectural heritage. Henry Ives Cobbâs Chicago is the first book about this distinguished architect and the magnificent buildings he created, including the Newberry Library, the Chicago Historical Society, the Chicago Athletic Association, the Fisheries Building for the 1893 Worldâs Fair, and the Chicago Federal Building. Cobb filled a huge institutional void with his inventive Romanesque and Gothic buildingsâ"something that the other architect-giants, occupied largely with residential and commercial work, did not do. Edward W. Wolner argues that these constructions and the enterprises they housedâ"including the first buildings and master plan for the University of Chicagoâ"signaled that the city had come of age, that its leaders were finally pursuing the highest ambitions in the realms of culture and intellect. Assembling a cast of colorful characters from a free-wheeling age gone by, and including over 140 images of Cobbâs most creative buildings, Henry Ives Cobbâs Chicago is a rare achievement: a dynamic portrait of an architect whose institutional designs decisively changed the cityâs identity during its most critical phase of development.…