Title:
Building a century of progress : the architecture of Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair
Author:
Schrenk, Lisa Diane.
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Publication Information:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007]
©2007
Physical Description:
x, 357 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
The future begins -- Science finds-industry applies-man conforms -- Designing the city of color and delight -- Prefabricated palaces: formal designs of the pavilions -- Building innovations at the exposition -- Exposition houses of today and tomorrow -- Unbuilt visions for a modern exposition -- The contemporary reaction and impact of the exposition -- The curtain falls -- Major buildings and architects of a century of progress -- Color schemes of a century of progress.
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ISBN:
9780816648368
Format :
Book
