Carson Pirie Scott - Louis Sullivan and the Chicago Department Store (Paperback)

Long recognized as a Chicago landmark, the Carson Pirie Scott Building also represents a milestone in the development of architecture. The last large commercial structure designed by Louis Sullivan, the Carson building reflected the culmination of the famed architect's career as a creator of tall steel buildings. In this study, Joseph M. Siry traces the origins of the building's design and analyzes its role in commercial, urban, and architectural history. Originally constructed to house the Schlesinger and Mayer Store, Sullivan's building was one of a number of large department stores built at the turn of the century along State Street in Chicago's burgeoning retail district. Replacing a generation of commercial architecture that had grown out of the Great Fire of 1871, these new buildings were tall and steel-framed, a construction that posed new aesthetic problems for designers. Handsomely illustrated with more than one hundred photographs and drawings, Carson Pirie Scott provides an illuminating history of a pivotal architectural work and offers an original, revealing assessment of how Sullivan, responding to the commercial culture of his time, created a fresh, distinctive American building.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Chicago Architecture and Urbanism
Release date:	July 2012
First published:	July 2012
Authors:	Joseph M. Siry
Dimensions:	150 x 227 x 2mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-76137-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Individual architects Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc > General
LSN:	0-226-76137-1
Barcode:	9780226761374

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