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Southern Exposure - The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side (Paperback)
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Southern Exposure - The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side (Paperback)
Series: Second to None: Chicago Stories
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Loot Price R530
Discovery Miles 5 300
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Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South
Side is the first book devoted to the South Side's rich and
unfairly ignored architectural heritage. With lively, insightful
text and gallery-quality color photographs by noted Chicago
architecture expert Lee Bey, Southern Exposure documents the
remarkable and largely unsung architecture of the South Side. The
book features an array of landmarks-from a Space Age dry cleaners
to a nineteenth-century lagoon that meanders down the middle of a
working-class neighborhood street-that are largely absent from arts
discourse, in no small part because they sit in a predominantly
African American and Latino section of town that's better known as
a place of disinvestment, abandonment, and violence. Inspired by
Bey's 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial exhibition, Southern
Exposure visits sixty sites, including lesser-known but important
work by luminaries such as Jeanne Gang, Frank Lloyd Wright, and
Eero Saarinen, as well as buildings by pioneering black architects
such as Walter T. Bailey, John Moutoussamy, and Roger Margerum.
Pushing against the popular narrative that depicts Chicago's South
Side as an architectural wasteland, Bey shows beautiful and intact
buildings and neighborhoods that reflect the value-and potential-of
the area. Southern Exposure offers much to delight architecture
aficionados and writers, native Chicagoans and guests to the city
alike.
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