DREAMS IN STONE. The University of Chicago.

Bruckner, D.J.R.; Irene Maculey

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1976

Beschreibung

274 pages of text including an index to the buildings and an index to the architects. Hardcover binding in almost new condition. Unclipped dustjacket with minimal shelfwear including crease to front inner flap; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated with 348 black & white photographs, taken by Patrice Grimbert, Luis Medina and Jose Lupez, featuring every building on the campus and the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin. Contains a large folding plan at the rear of the text, giving a birds-eye view of the campus showing the placement of university structures. Includes the architecture of Henry Ives Cobb, Burnham & Hammond, Coolidge & Hodgdon, Dwight H. Perkins, Shepley Rutan & Coolidge, Frank Lloyd Wright, Harry Weese & Assoicates, James Gamble Rogers, Schmidt Garden & Erikson, Holabird & Roche /Root /& Burgee, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Eero Saarinen, Edward Larabee Barnes, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Howard Van Doren Shaw, I. W. Colburn, etc. The campus consists of 165 acres of trees, gardens and lawns surrounded on either side by Frederick Law Olmstead's Midway Plaisance. Size: Oblong octavo (8vo). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 008342

Bibliografische Details

Titel: DREAMS IN STONE. The University of Chicago.

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

Erscheinungsdatum: 1976

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near fine condition

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near fine condition (DJ)

Auflage: First Edition.

Art des Buches: Book