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This thoroughly illustrated classic study traces the history of the world-famous Chicago school of architecture from its beginnings with the functional innovations of William Le Baron Jenney and others to their imaginative development by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. The Chicago... read more

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The architectural and technical achievement of the Chicago school marked the establishment of a new style of architecture, but at the same time it was the culmination of a structural evolution that extended over the century preceding it.

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