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In 1976, he helped organize a museum exhibition titled "Chicago Architects" highlighting work from lesser-known architects that he thought were overlooked in Chicago's modernist architectural history. In 1988, Tigerman designed an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago on the architectural history of Chicago. [1]
The Chicago Building is an example of Chicago School architecture. Beginning in the early 1880s, architectural pioneers of the Chicago School explored steel-frame construction and, in the 1890s, the use of large areas of plate glass. These were among the first modern skyscrapers.
On his first visit to Chicago, Loos was immediately inspired by the new American skyscrapers and the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. [16] Specifically, he was inspired by the architect Louis Sullivan and the Chicago School of Architecture, approving of Sullivan's concept of form follows function in his essay Ornament in Architecture. [16]
The Chicago Seven was a first-generation postmodern group of architects in Chicago. The original Seven were Stanley Tigerman , Larry Booth , Stuart Cohen , Ben Weese , James Ingo Freed , Tom Beeby and James L. Nagle .
In 1918, the Hungarian government passed laws enabling women to study at universities, so in 1919 Pécsi returned to Hungary to complete her education at Királyi József Műegyetem (Budapest University of Technology and Economics). She graduated on 8 March 1920, her twenty-second birthday, the first Hungarian woman to qualify as an architect.
Farkas "Wolfgang" Ferenc Molnár (1897–1945) [1] was a Hungarian architect, painter, essayist, and graphic artist. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He is associated with the first generation of Bauhaus movement , [ 4 ] and was active in Budapest.
John Mills Van Osdel (July 31, 1811 – December 21, 1891) [1] was an American architect who is considered the first Chicago architect. [2] He is considered a peer of the most prominent architects in the history of Chicago. He has also done significant work throughout Illinois and the Midwest, although much of it no longer exists. [vague]
Albert Schickedanz (or Schikedanz) (October 14, 1846 – July 11, 1915) was an Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style. Schickedanz was born in Biala, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, to an ethnic German family. He studied at his home town and at Käsmark (now Kežmarok, Slovakia).