Chicago's unique architectural legacy has been evolving over the past 150 years and parallels the city's rise to prominence as the commercial center of America's heartland. Development of the city was spurred by several key factors; a favorable location at a natural cross roads, rapid expansion fueled by its role as a gateway for western settlement and the processing of commodities, the creation of vast entrepreneurial fortunes, and the emergence of new technologies which made possible many of the great changes in commercial high-rise construction first seen here. Chicago's architecture emerged in an unprecedented environment of growth, risk taking and industrial innovation.

This collection of digital photography on CD-ROM identifies the place of Chicago Architecture in relationship to thought, to science and technology, to economics, to the arts, to culture, and to politics. This photographic CD is a simple, yet ambitious concept combining recent travel experiences to Chicago as well as the surrounding suburbs. The digital images on this CD features well known works from the 1880s to the 1990s, not to mention some landscape designs. This collection of Chicago Architecture has captured the designs of Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, SOM, and many others.

The over 700 digital images on this CD features historic and contemporary architecture in the City of Chicago. Architects featured include Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Holabird & Root, William LeBaron Jenny, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Harry Weese, Hood & Howells, Bertrand Goldberg, Murphy/Jahn, Philip Johnson & John Burgee, Kohn Pedersen Fox, C.F. Murphy...and many more. Buildings featured include the Sears Tower, John Hancock Building, Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower, Inland Steel Building, Richard Daley Center, Federal Center, Bank One Building, Two Prudential Plaza, Swissotel, Lake Point Tower, Equitable Building, IBM Building, Marina City,...and many more.

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